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Resolving conflicts of interest

CONFLICTS BETWEEN public interest—the public right to, and its stake in, unbiased and fair reporting as a critical factor in the formation of opinion and in decision-making—and the interests of the owners of the news media are almost inevitable, whether in the Philippines or in those other countries where...

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...

Daring to look to the future

At my age and that of my other two co-writers on In Medias Res, looking ahead is no longer the act of hope and optimism. It is quite a painful thing to do because like others in the past who eventually became the older generation, our elders in the...

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...

No sympathy for whistleblowers

IN SPITE of the potentially big push they could give the effort against the perpetual plague of official corruption, whistleblowersdon’t find any encouragement where it matters. For all its vociferous avowals on corruption, not even the present government is impressed.

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...

Party-list System: Quo Vadis?

The issue needs some breathing space, much clearing of previously held notions and impressions. At the heart of the misunderstanding is the impression, mine included and also held by many, that the framers of the 1987 Constitution were incorporating the Party-list System into our electoral process primarily to benefit...

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