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 Media endorsing candidates United States (US) newspapers endorsed their preferred candidate for President a few days before the November 6 US elections. On the day of the elections themselves, some of the US TV networks also projected who the winner would be. According to the American Presidency Project, of the top 100 US... A system of inherited power SENATOR ALAN Peter Cayetano, who’s been in the Senate together with his sister Pia for five years, and whose late father was himself a member of that body, said last week that there’s nothing wrong with political dynasties per se. It depends on whether a political family—which by dint... Unworthy NOT FOR his distinguished legislative record—he practically had none—was Benigno S. Aquino III elected to the Philippine Presidency in 2010, but for his presumed libertarian and human rights heritage. Benigno Aquino Jr. was an authentic hero for daring to return home in 1983 despite the certainty of either arrest or... Nuisance candidates all THE PHILIPPINE media were having a field day last week at the expense of the usual batch of so-called "nuisance candidates" for various posts including the Senate who, every election period, declare their intention to run for office. Among the subjects of their ridicule were: someone who wanted the... Jailing Peter for John SENATOR EDGARDO J. Angara was asking what he thought was a rhetorical question last week as the Supreme Court was about to issue a temporary restraining order stopping for 120 days the implementation of the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 (RA 10175), of which he was the principal sponsor... Martial law reborn THE CYBERCRIME Prevention Act of 2012 (RA 10175) has not only united those who have a Facebook or Twitter account, who have a blog or website, who access chat rooms or who use email to communicate in opposing the Act as a grave threat to free expression. It has... Worst assault on free expression since 1972 THE CYBERCRIME Prevention Act of 2012 is the worst assault on free expression since Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law 40 years ago if only for its potential to affect the 26 to 30 million Filipinos, including journalists, who regularly access the Internet to upload information through personal blogs... Anomaly’s child MUCH OF the post-2010 expectations of the press and media community critical of the Arroyo administration’s antagonism to free expression and press freedom have not been realized during the Aquino III administration. Neither institutional transparency—the bureaucracy’s sustained commitment to the right to information as State policy—nor institutionalized openness, or the... Fundamentalist v. Fundamentalist NOT THE proper responses to films one doesn’t like are the bombing and burning of embassies and the killing of ambassadors. But the former at least has become, in certain countries, the preferred expression of outrage against the media. The violence the film "Innocence of Muslims" has provoked, which has... 9/11: Casualties of terror AS IN past years, the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and on the Pentagon in Washington DC has been focused on their cost in lives lost and on those the victims left behind. The events of that... « Previous1…789101112Next »
