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 Arroyo redux? IN 2010 the election to the Presidency of Benigno S. Aquino III seemed to herald, if not the coming of a free expression regime, at least the promise of one. It wasn’t only because Aquino had sworn during his campaign for the Presidency to support a freedom of... Being pro-active JOURNALISTS AND media advocacy groups have for years been urging a stop to the Philippine National Police and other government investigating bodies’ long-standing practice of presenting crime suspects to the media even before they have been charged, much less convicted. The January 25 order of Interior and Local Government... Media Damnation (Updated) The Philippine news media have a problem: how to make what’s turning into one of the most boring elections in Philippine history interesting as well as meaningful to a weary electorate that this early is already demonstrating that it will elect senators this May on the sole basis of... Free TV, the tabloids and elections THE PHILIPPINE media have often been accused of bias in the coverage of elections. But inadequacy rather than partiality has been their more telling flaw. Content analysis of the coverage by the major networks and broadsheets of Philippine elections since 2007 shows that in most cases only individual practitioners... Abolishing the PCGG PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION on Good Government (PCGG) Chair Andres Bautista may have a point. The PCGG may have to be abolished—but only so it can be reorganized so it can do better, and not because the cost of recovering the wealth the late Ferdinand Marcos amassed during his 21 years... Social change and the crisis of information INFORMATION IS what the Reproductive Health (RH) and Freedom of Information (FOI) bills are all about. The first would provide women with information on their own bodies—which for too many Filipinos apparently remains terra incognita even into their adulthood—and couples with the information they need that would enable them... Writers and public intellectuals WE ALL know who, or what, the writer is. He or she is a poet, a playwright, an essayist and/or a novelist. But he or she is also the writer of the editorials and columns, the investigative and explanatory reports that are among the many forms journalism has developed... The price of (limited) success EVERY PHILIPPINE President since Marcos has been critical of the press and has demanded that it behave in a manner acceptable to government. Marcos’ main complaint, as it was that of Corazon Aquino, Fidel Ramos, Joseph Estrada, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, and now of Benigno S. Aquino III, was ... His kind of people THE PHILIPPINE Daily Inquirer described President Benigno S. Aquino III as "affable" during his speech at the 9th MediaNation "Summit" last Friday, November 23, in contrast to his "combative" stance in at least three events this year when he rebuked the media for their alleged inaccuracy, negativity, and focus... The reign of impunity THE AMPATUAN Massacre of November 23, 2009 claimed the lives of 58 men and women, 32 of whom were journalists and media workers. It was the worst attack on the press in Philippine history, and one of the worst cases of political killings in the country since 1946, when... « Previous1…678910…12Next »
