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 Alternatives SINCE 1986, conventional wisdom in the Philippines has paid tribute to the role of the “alternative press” in the overthrow of the Marcos regime that year. The best of all worlds A RECENTLY released collection of essays by political science professors Felipe B. Miranda and Malaya C. Ronas of the University of the Philippines, Temario C. Rivera of the International Christian University, Tokyo, and Ronald Holmes of De la Salle University, contests the “conventional wisdom” that... The human thing AMONG OTHER collateral consequences, the Corona impeachment trial has revived attempts, in the past usually from government agencies, to summon journalists who have been reporting on public events to testify in court or during congressional hearings on the assumption that they have undisclosed, secret information that could help trials... Hyphenated THERE IS no hyphen in “Filipino American.” It’s not solely a matter of punctuation but also of ideology. The majority-sanctioned assumption in the United States (US) is that everyone regardless of origin who’s permanently resident in or a citizen of that country is an American. Making up the rules ONE OF the least enlightening and least knowledgeable of the comments the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s publication last March 13 of the photographs of Corona trial defense witness Demetrio Vicente provoked was the claim that the media don’t have ethical and professional rules; “they just make them up as... Notes on the education of journalists (UPDATED) JOURNALISM COURSES had been taught in University of the Philippines (UP) and other schools, among them the University of Santo Tomas (UST), since after the Second World War. In UP, journalism courses were, in the 1950s and the early 1960s, offered in the Department of English and taught by... More of the same? BURMA, THE bad boy of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, is supposedly easing restrictions on, among others, the press and the political opposition, and the Western funding agencies are rushing into the democratization breach. Decriminalizing libel Towards true self-regulation THE CONVICTION for libel in 2007 of Davao broadcaster Alexander Adonis, for which he was sentenced to a prison term of two years to four years and six months, has been declared incompatible by the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) with the International Covenant on Civil and... « Previous1…101112
