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 Image-making or information? AMONG PUBLIC officials as well as those other individuals whose jobs and functions in society put them in the public eye, how they are perceived by others, as dictated by their interests, has become more and more critical. In this so-called Information Age, both the old media (print and broadcasting)... Beyond economics DRAFTED IN the wake of the bitter struggles of the martial law period, and drawing from the lessons of that experience, the 1987 Constitution contains provisions meant to prevent the repetition of that terrible time, and to encourage the flowering of democratic choice. Among those provisions is that... Media’s bad news A FREEDOM of Information (FOI) bill, this time drafted by the Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition, was filed through indirect initiative before the House of Representatives last July 1. The bill incorporates provisions on which the coalition members—media and media advocacy organizations and non-governmental groups committed to good governance... Exceptions to the Rule Is the formal education of journalists necessary? In a pig’s eye CARTOONS HAVE been part of Philippine newspapers since the late Spanish era. They flourished in the reformist press during the propaganda and revolutionary period, and gained greater popularity during US colonization despite political constraints. The most common form of cartoon in journalism appears in the editorial pages, where it supplements... Mixed blessing THE PHILIPPINE blogging community is divided over whether to draft and/or adopt a code of ethical conduct that would govern online expression. As early as the onset of this century—before the advent of Facebook, Twitter, and other social media networks over the Internet—some bloggers were already saying that the... Rocky road IN WHAT could be an attempt to preempt a Supreme Court decision on the unconstitutionality of the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 (RA 10175), the Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced that it is recommending the removal of the provision on online libel in the Act. The DOJ, said... Facebook Face-off IT’S BEGINNING to look like a stretch, but assuming the integrity of the May 2013 mid-term exercise—meaning the votes cast were accurately counted by the Comelec’s problematic PCOS machines and transmitted—the efforts of individual Netizens as well as groups to influence the outcome seems to have come to naught.... “Making” democracy THE CLAIM that free expression is not absolute falls regularly from the lips of people who’re basically hostile to it, among them certain members of the 15th Congress who were prepared to swear on a stack of Bibles their allegiance to free expression, access to information and press freedom,... Politicians and journalists THIS YEAR marks the 20th year since the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) declared May 3 World Press Freedom Day. May 3 continues to resonate with irony in the Philippines, where, since 1986, or seven years before the declaration, the killing of journalists and media workers... « Previous1…45678…12Next »
