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Misquoting a press release

JEERS TO The Manila Times for erroneously quoting the Supreme Court Public Information Office (SC PIO) in a report about the early retirement of Supreme Court Associate Justice Martin Villarama Jr.

Addressing issues much of the media missed

CHEERS TO SOLAR Network News’ Opposing Views and ABS-CBN 2’s Beyond Politics for looking deeper into the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) and addressing issues most of the news media missed.

A timely reminder

CHEERS TO Rappler for reminding the public about the almost forgotten plunder case against Former President now Manila Mayor Joseph 'Erap' Estrada in 2001.

Repeating the same mistakes

JEERS TO SEVERAL news organizations for committing the same old errors in much of media coverage of suicide.

Fire protection? What’s that?

Cheers to ABS-CBN 2's TV Patrol for reviewing the current state of fire protection in the country and for looking into the unused 2 billion pesos budget of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) since 2009.

Breaking confidentiality agreement (UPDATED)

JEERS TO GMA 7's Born to Be Wild for breaching a confidentiality agreement with a source by disclosing the location of an unstudied and endemic spider species.

Proofreading error?

JEERS TO THE Manila Times for erroneously associating the acronym of the Philippine armed forces with an international news wire organization in a report published in their online news portal. The paper’s editor attributed the error to an over-zealous proof reader.

Four months after Yolanda: Post-disaster news coverage

Yolanda’s destruction has retained global attention as efforts continue to address the problems of the affected communities in Central Visayas. The public has not let go of its interest in the plight of the displaced nor of their concern about how they are coping and the how well they...

Blown out of proportion

The incident involving celebrity-host Vhong Navarro gained massive media coverage which highlighted some failures of the press and raised questions on media coverage, news priorities, context and media perspective and news analysis.

Beyond the five Ws and the H: Probing the ‘Binay incident’

THE PHILIPPINE Daily Inquirer reported on Dec. 19, 2013 that Makati City mayor Junjun Binay had several security guards of Dasmariñas Village arrested for barring the exit of his convoy on Nov. 30, 1013 through a restricted gate. The media reported the incident, but failed to go beyond the...