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Benjamin Defensor, atypical editor, 82


BENJIE DEFENSOR was not the stereotypical editor of his time, a character caricatured with only moderate exaggeration as cantankerous, oppressive, and unpleasable, who regards his subordinates as his absolute inferiors and knows only one way to make them serve him better—torture. Benjie is actually nice, and I have an idea...

Telling complex stories


I have long felt that the world may have outgrown conventional journalism. Globalization and technology speed up change, spread the impact of change across borders, layering developments with greater complexity—journalism has pretty much stayed the same. The business of news is still stuck in the urge of getting the...

Owners and practitioners


Government control of media organizations in many countries is most often expressed through censorship. But self-censorship equally imperils accurate reporting of politics and governance even in those countries such as the Philippines, where, officially at least, there is no censorship supposedly because the media are mostly privately-owned. Private ownership...

Misquoted? Bring your own tape recorder


MORE AND more news subjects have been complaining, to me at least, about being misquoted, and some of them say that not infrequently the news media don’t allow a word in from them and, if at all they do, they make sure the final word is theirs—that is, the...

Governments and the Internet


The Philippines stands out for the freedom it grants to the press. Our 1987 Constitution gives the ultimate protection from government interference—”No law shall be passed abridging the freedom of speech, of expression, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the...

Journalism and advocacy 101


Most journalists would argue that there is no room for advocacy in journalism. But no journalist can claim without lying that he/she is unconcerned with the issues that confront his/her community, whether it be the world, his/her country, or the municipality of his/her birth and/or residence. His/her concern—or at...

The game of patronage


I HAVE often found myself at forums faced with the question, How do we even begin to live as a people of common interests and shared responsibilities, a people predisposed to give and take, instead of taking advantage of, let alone exploiting, one another? And, dominated as they often are by...

Police problem


THE PHILIPPINE National Police (PNP) claims it can’t arrest the remaining 97 accused in the Ampatuan Massacre of November 23, 2009 who’re still at large, 196 being the number of the accused in that atrocity, of which only 99 are in custody. (Only 72 had been arraigned as...

Maguindanao: A continuing perversion of justice


ESMAIL ENOG has gone missing for three months now. Indeed, he is thought dead even if no final word has come or body has turned up to confirm that. It’s been simply too long for anyone who finds himself in the circumstances he did to have been gone and...

A celebration of good journalism


On its 18th year, the Jaime V. Ongpin Journalism Seminar remains a happy event. The Center for Media Freedom & Responsibility (CMFR) regards the recognition of good works an important part of growing a quality press. And as in previous years, this year’s program drew an audience of 185...

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