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Notes on the dominant press (Updated)

AN ETHICAL as well as professional duty, truth-telling and accuracy are fundamental to media and press practice. But in the dominant (wrongly referred to as the "mainstream") press, it is also the principle most often observed in the breach rather than the compliance.

Constitutional Crisis? Did it not start with the SC Ruling?

CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS would be the outcome, some say, of President Aquino’s decision to file a motion for reconsideration of the High Court’s ruling on DAP. Old and new media served as platforms for vehement criticism of the president’s decision, describing this as defiant and arrogant. Of the nine that CMFR...

Notes on the alternative press

A national conference on the alternative press is likely to be held in October at the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication in Diliman, Quezon City, with the stated purpose of, among others, recalling, and if necessary, redefining and reframing both the concept as well as the...

Of artists and presidential awards

RECENT CONTROVERSIES embroiling the Aquino administration suggest amendments to laws. This might set some of our legislators more into the review of existing laws for weaknesses, gaps and contradictions.

Whoah!

THE SUPREME Court decision on the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) had some quarters ready to march to press for the President’s impeachment. I suspect those who felt that Nora Aunor was unfairly excluded by PNoy from this year’s list of National Artists would have joined them promptly. Both news...

Rethinking ‘mug shot’ publication

THE PUBLICATION of the "mug shot" of any individual is ethically questionable, but has been routine media practice in the Philippines. In some countries, for example in the United States, the publication of mug shots is usually accompanied by the warning that the person so photographed has not...

The “Media Circus”

IF THE media were truly a mirror of society, then we must be the most irrepressibly frivolous people in the world, hooked on having and making fun, attaching to every activity the function of endless entertainment.

Delusion and reality

SENATOR RAMON Revilla Jr. may not be as “delusional” as Akbayan Representative Walden Bello declared in reaction to the former’s announcement that he intends to run for the Presidency in 2016 even while in detention.

No illusions

No one should be under the illusion that every journalist killed for what he or she reported or commented on was fighting for freedom, for principle, for public interest, or even for the truth, although some of those who have been killed since 1986 indeed died for their advocacies...

Ban the ban

But in an unwonted display of anti-media pique, Te delayed his own briefing last Tuesday to make sure that the TV cameras would not be transmitting sounds and images live. Free expression and press freedom advocate Te was in effect deciding for the media how an event may be...

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