Luis V. Teodoro, Author at CMFR | Page 9 of 11

  • Fundamentalist v. Fundamentalist

    NOT THE proper responses to films one doesn’t like are the bombing and burning of embassies and the killing of ambassadors. But the former at least has become, in... Read more

  • 9/11: Casualties of terror

    AS IN past years, the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and on the Pentagon in Washington DC... Read more

  • Cruel month

    April is the cruelest month. —TS Eliot SEPTEMBER’S THE first of those months of the year that end in "ber" (September, October, November, December)—its onset signaling, so local wags say,... Read more

  • Time enough

    THE PHILIPPINES now has its first woman Chief Justice in the person of Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. It’s a precedent- setting appointment, but wasn’t really all that surprising in... Read more

  • The persistence of impunity

    STATE RESPONSIBILITY was writ large in the Ampatuan Massacre when it occurred in 2009. Not only were the immediate suspects members of the ruling dynasty in Maguindanao. They had... Read more

  • Post-disaster media event

    THE MEDIA have not tired of declaring, in the aftermath of any disaster, that adversity brings out the best in the Filipino. Like all generalizations it is only partly... Read more

  • License to kill

    INTRODUCED IN the House of Representatives by Congressmen Angelo B. Palmones of AGHAM Party list and Lord Allan Jay Velasco of the lone district of Marinduque, House Bill 6391... Read more

  • Fear of FOI

    In some countries including the Philippines, officials apparently fear freedom of information (FOI) because they think it an instrument their rivals and competitors as well as the mass media... Read more

  • Divide by two

    LANGUAGE DIVIDES the media audience as it does Philippine society: the broadsheets have always been in English while the tabloids have always been in Filipino. To class A and... Read more

  • Owners and practitioners

    Government control of media organizations in many countries is most often expressed through censorship. But self-censorship equally imperils accurate reporting of politics and governance even in those countries... Read more



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