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 Notes on the alternative press A national conference on the alternative press is likely to be held in October at the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication in Diliman, Quezon City, with the stated purpose of, among others, recalling, and if necessary, redefining and reframing both the concept as well as the... Rethinking ‘mug shot’ publication THE PUBLICATION of the "mug shot" of any individual is ethically questionable, but has been routine media practice in the Philippines. In some countries, for example in the United States, the publication of mug shots is usually accompanied by the warning that the person so photographed has not... Delusion and reality SENATOR RAMON Revilla Jr. may not be as “delusional” as Akbayan Representative Walden Bello declared in reaction to the former’s announcement that he intends to run for the Presidency in 2016 even while in detention. No illusions No one should be under the illusion that every journalist killed for what he or she reported or commented on was fighting for freedom, for principle, for public interest, or even for the truth, although some of those who have been killed since 1986 indeed died for their advocacies... Ban the ban But in an unwonted display of anti-media pique, Te delayed his own briefing last Tuesday to make sure that the TV cameras would not be transmitting sounds and images live. Free expression and press freedom advocate Te was in effect deciding for the media how an event may be... Lives’ labors lost (Updated) The claim that the loss of media credibility is worse than the killing of journalists is an exaggeration. There is no problem as bad as, and certainly no problem even worse, than the physical elimination of journalists and media workers. The problem of media credibility can be addressed and... More than a labor issue THE PRACTICE of not paying reporters or broadcasters salaries, although already a creeping reality in the decades that followed the dismantling of the Marcos dictatorship, is spreading not only in the community press but even among metro Manila-based media organizations. The press in Philippine society The protection the Constitution extends to press freedom is premised on the assumption that the press has a social duty to discharge to merit that protection. Indeed the Constitution would not otherwise emphasize that no law may be passed abridging press freedom specifically, in addition to a prohibition against... Truth in fiction THE COLOMBIAN Nobel laureate for literature Gabriel GarcĂa Márquez died April 17, 2014 at the age of 87. Celebrated universally for the "magic realism" of his fiction, Marquez’s political perspective—he was a socialist and opposed the political hegemony of the United States in Latin America and the rest of... Journalist or ad solicitor? NAMED AS one of three media personalities who allegedly accepted bribes from a government corporation involved in the diversion of pork barrel funds to non-existent NGOs, TV5’s Erwin Tulfo admitted accepting over a quarter of a million pesos from the corporation, but argued that the amount was payment for... « Previous12345…12Next »
