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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...

Sport lang tayo: Serious funding needed

MONDAY AFTER the Tokyo Olympics closed, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque was quick to claim credit for the country’s best Olympic campaign yet, saying that it was “no coincidence” that it happened under the Duterte administration.

PDP-Laban: No longer in touch with its legacy

THE INFIGHTING within the party which carried him to the presidency ended with Rodrigo Duterte bragging about how he had given new life to a dormant Partido Demokratiko Pilipino – Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban). The occasion was the party’s national assembly held on Saturday July 17, when he slammed...

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...

Giving it meaning: Journalism as interpretation

MUCH of the reporting of the Philippine press and media falls under the category of what some academics call “descriptive journalism.” It is supposed to be journalism that demands only that news reporters provide the answers –just the facts” — to the questions the conventional “five Ws and H”...

State of Media Freedom in PH

Introduction The period saw the long awaited decision from the trial of the accused of the massacre of 58 persons, including 32 journalists in Ampatuan, Maguindanao; promulgated at the end of nearly 10 years. But this high point did not lighten the dreary landscape of press freedom. It is...

The Landscape of Information

ON ANY given day, the Filipino public can expect to watch at least four televised briefings providing updates on the COVID-19 situation as well as the actions undertaken by different government agencies. But because they’re not a coordinated communication effort, the information clutter fails to clarify the state of...