For the Record Archives - CMFR

We will not surrender our freedoms

Today, Independence Day, we renew our pledge to serve the people, to continue speaking truth to power, and to guard and defend freedom of the press and of expression from all threats.

Covering the Pandemic

Covering the CoViD-19 Pandemic

The Silent Media

Native Advertising: Not just a Problem of One

The KBP Presidential Forum: Pooling resources for a better informed electorate

THE KAPISANAN ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP) Presidential Forum is the first of its kind, a joint effort by news organizations to provide a venue for candidates to prove why they deserve to run the country.

Under-reported and continuing: A pattern of police violence against quarantine violators

IN OCTOBER 2021 alone, media reported several cases of extortion and rape involving the police when dealing with persons supposedly in violation of curfew and other quarantine restrictions. But the pervasive and persistent violence of the state against citizens remains underreported in the media.

A Timeline of State Hostility towards Healthcare Workers

CELEBRATED BY the public as heroes, our healthcare workers have cared for the sick and saved lives, standing guard on the frontlines against COVID-19 from the earliest stages of the outbreak. The number of fatalities among medical workers made headlines in the first few months when the lack of...

Reckless and Heartless

THE COLLAPSE of the peace talks between the government and the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) in 2017 left President Duterte with nothing to show for it.. He thought the negotiations would result in the surrender of the Left, and when that didn’t happen,he...

Selling out the West PH Sea

AS PRESIDENT Duterte continues to express his beliefs and state his positions, he has confirmed that he is our fundamental problem. It is he who stands in the way of the nation working together to protect the Philippines’ sovereign rights in our EEZ.

Questionable Questions for the Press

THE PAST few weeks have been an interesting, if humbling, experience for journalists in social media. Three reporters from the three major networks became the subject of highly spirited discussion on Twitter over a question that each asked of their interviewees. A number of practitioners have brushed aside the...

PH government’s slow vaccine rollout: Plainly inept or intentional?

SINCE THE pandemic hit the country in January 2020, the Philippines has moved through a chain of snafus and scandals: Filipinos suffered the longest-running lockdown, the highest number of cases in Southeast Asia for at least two months, and more recently, ended last in the line of ASEAN countries...

PH Strategy on COVID-19

IN ANY crisis, governments anywhere bear the fundamental responsibility to provide for public needs, and to calm an anxious public with clear and factual information. In the midst of a pandemic, the Duterte administration has appeared quite at a loss about what to do. Early signs indicated their lack...

Editorial Cartoons of the Week (February 15 to 21)

Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 15, 2020 Malaya Business Insight, February 17, 2020 The Philippine Star, February 19, 2020 Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 19, 2020 Malaya Business Insight, February 20, 2020

Editorial Cartoons of the Week (November 30 to December 6)

The Manila Times, December 1, 2019 BusinessMirror, December 4, 2019 Philippine Daily Inquirer, December 4, 2019, 2019 Malaya Business Insight, December 4, 2019 Malaya Business Insight, December 6, 2019