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 Out of focus JEERS TO ABS-CBN 2's TV Patrol for focusing on a supposed premonition by the children of a Yolanda-ravaged family instead of hard information when it reported the death of three siblings in Leyte during the Typhoon. Crime as public spectacle JEERS TO several media organizations for forgetting their responsibility to protect the identity and dignity of the dead. Report on contractualization CHEERS TO THE Philippine Daily Inquirer for its Labor Day special report addressing the plight of the Filipino worker. Misquoting a press release JEERS TO The Manila Times for erroneously quoting the Supreme Court Public Information Office (SC PIO) in a report about the early retirement of Supreme Court Associate Justice Martin Villarama Jr. Addressing issues much of the media missed CHEERS TO SOLAR Network News’ Opposing Views and ABS-CBN 2’s Beyond Politics for looking deeper into the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) and addressing issues most of the news media missed. CMFR STATEMENT: Philippine Day of Mourning WORLD PRESS Freedom Day has for many years been an occasion for mourning rather than celebration in the Philippines, where, since 1986, 140 journalists and media workers have been killed for their work, among them the 32 killed on November 23, 2009 in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao province. This year’s... A timely reminder CHEERS TO Rappler for reminding the public about the almost forgotten plunder case against Former President now Manila Mayor Joseph 'Erap' Estrada in 2001. Repeating the same mistakes JEERS TO SEVERAL news organizations for committing the same old errors in much of media coverage of suicide. Fire protection? What’s that? Cheers to ABS-CBN 2's TV Patrol for reviewing the current state of fire protection in the country and for looking into the unused 2 billion pesos budget of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) since 2009. Breaking confidentiality agreement (UPDATED) JEERS TO GMA 7's Born to Be Wild for breaching a confidentiality agreement with a source by disclosing the location of an unstudied and endemic spider species. « Previous1…1617181920…61Next »
