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Suspicious

JEERS To the Philippine Daily Inquirer for a practice that can only lead to readers’ suspecting that there’s a “special arrangement” between certain reporters and Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago. A series of stories involving the senator, because far from newsworthy, makes it seem that whatever she says...

FOI Timeline

CHEERS TO InterAksyon.com for a story on President Benigno Aquino and his fading support for a Freedom of Information (FOI) bill.

Probing report

CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for focusing on an important issue in the policy debate on reproductive health (RH): Sen. Vicente “Tito” Sotto III’s use of fringe science in his speeches defending his anti-RH bill position.

RH Act not covered as Health and Women’s Issue

FROM NOVEMBER to December of last year, Republic Act 10354 (or the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012 which was signed into law last Dec. 21) was always in the news. However, the reports lacked in-depth coverage of the Act as a health and women’s issue.

Reading habit

CHEERS TO GMA News TV’s State of the Nation with Jessica Soho for a feature report last Jan. 15 on the reading habits of Filipinos and promoting reading among its viewers.

Explanation please

JEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for not explaining a legal term it used in its Oct. 23 report.

Gay kidnapper

JEERS TO TV Patrol for unnecessarily emphasizing the alleged sexual orientation of a kidnapping suspect in a Nov. 28 report.

Political dynasties

CHEERS TO ABS-CBN’s Failon Ngayon and Solar News for providing in-depth reports on political dynasties.

Labor laws

JEERS TO Malaya Business Insight for a one-sided and incomplete Oct. 25, 2012 banner story on Philippine employment laws.

Supreme Court SALNs

CHEERS TO the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) and Solar Network News for their joint story that examined the Statements of Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth (SALNs) of the Supreme Court (SC) justices, one year after Congress impeached then Chief Justice Renato Corona.