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Tempest in a teapot

It may all have been a bit of a "tempest in a teapot" – the furious exchange on social media about the spokesperson for the Supreme Court having issued a "ban" on the live coverage of a press briefing. But what happened this week reflects on what is always...

Lives’ labors lost (Updated)

The claim that the loss of media credibility is worse than the killing of journalists is an exaggeration. There is no problem as bad as, and certainly no problem even worse, than the physical elimination of journalists and media workers. The problem of media credibility can be addressed and...

More than a labor issue

THE PRACTICE of not paying reporters or broadcasters salaries, although already a creeping reality in the decades that followed the dismantling of the Marcos dictatorship, is spreading not only in the community press but even among metro Manila-based media organizations.

More muddling on PDAF

Actually, the muddling was done pretty early in the game, almost as soon as the first three senators were named as having gained from their deals with (Janet Lim) Napoles. Damage control mechanisms were set into motion, as only big PR funds can make possible. And once again, media...

The press in Philippine society

The protection the Constitution extends to press freedom is premised on the assumption that the press has a social duty to discharge to merit that protection. Indeed the Constitution would not otherwise emphasize that no law may be passed abridging press freedom specifically, in addition to a prohibition against...

Small comforts from the superpower visit

IT TAKES a visiting US President to get everyone’s attention, including those of jaded journalists. Described by Foreign Affairs Secretary as "our deepest bilateral engagement", US-PH relations are entwined with historical remembrance, infused by the shared popular culture of Hollywood, Disney and the current media icons of a millennial generation....

Truth in fiction

THE COLOMBIAN Nobel laureate for literature Gabriel García Márquez died April 17, 2014 at the age of 87. Celebrated universally for the "magic realism" of his fiction, Marquez’s political perspective—he was a socialist and opposed the political hegemony of the United States in Latin America and the rest of...

The public and foreign policy

FOREIGN POLICY news do not carry a lot of weight in the news agenda. People generally think that the issues usually couched in diplomatic jargon as too nuanced for them to see the immediate relevance. This is easy to understand as the Philippines is a small country with few international...

Blue Ribbon Report: Government or NGOs?

THE BLUE Ribbon Committee’s press conference which highlighted the body’s findings may still be in draft form, but it was good to hear that it has moved clearly to submit three of its members of the Senate to the investigative authority of the Ombudsman. Unfortunately, these processes take time, sometimes...

Journalist or ad solicitor?

NAMED AS one of three media personalities who allegedly accepted bribes from a government corporation involved in the diversion of pork barrel funds to non-existent NGOs, TV5’s Erwin Tulfo admitted accepting over a quarter of a million pesos from the corporation, but argued that the amount was payment for...

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