We will not surrender our freedomsToday, 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.Read More Covering the PandemicRead more Covering the CoViD-19 Pandemic Risks and responsibilities JORDANIAN JOURNALIST Baker Atyani and his Filipino crew were not kidnapped by the Abu Sayyaf, but are being held against their will by the kidnap for ransom group, said Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo over the weekend. The Abu Sayyaf Group did not seize Atyani and company, and it now... They say THE FAILURE so far of the Philippine Congress to pass a Freedom of Information Act that will make citizen access to government-held information a matter of right isn’t the only indication that its honorable members don’t really mean what they say whenever they declare... The Old Media and the Knowledge Gap In the particular case of the Corona impeachment, old media timidity and the persistence of old habits were overwhelmed by new media daring. Saint George as the dragon TO THE English philosopher Edmund Burke we owe the observation that among the three Estates (the Aristocracy, the Clergy, and the Commons) in Parliament is a Fourth: the Press. While not a physically visible presence in the benches, said Burke, the Fourth Estate is a power nevertheless, and "more... The media and human rights (Updated) A PHILIPPINE delegation headed by Justice Secretary Leila de Lima has left the country for Geneva, Switzerland to attend the second cycle of the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the human rights situation of the Philippines and to defend the Philippine human rights record. Media as politics POLITICS IS the never-ending story in the Philippine setting, where, as one election is concluded, the politicians are already building alliances and filling their war chests for the next one. The elections of 2010 may have been over only 24 months ago, but preparations are already under way for... Censorship in disguise RESPONDING TO widespread public criticism of the on-the-air veiled threats, curses and macho posturing of the mainstays of one of their highest-rating “public service” programs when they were commenting on the May 6 airport scuffle between Philippine Daily Inquirer columnist Ramon Tulfo and the group of actor Raymart Santiago... What the public wants Was it really necessary to devote so much airtime and space to the incident? And on the very same day too as the resumption of the Corona impeachment trial, and other events that do matter? Accuracy, accuracy, accuracy THERE ARE errors of malice and errors of incompetence in the practice of journalism. A reporter may deliberately distort a story to manipulate readers, viewers or listeners into interpreting an event, a statement, or anything else in the news according to his/her or his/her media organization’s biases—or to those... Education for democracy SOME 500,000 Filipinos (most of them women, incidentally), graduated from college between March and April this year. They will compete for the limited number of jobs available in a stagnant economy with the estimated half a million other college graduates from past years who’re still unemployed, says IBON Databank and... « Previous1…9101112Next »
