In Medias Res Archives - CMFR

We will not surrender our freedoms

Today, 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.

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The Silent Media

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Update on Martial Law

MARTIAL LAW is now history. Why then an update, a term journalists usually use for reports that keep up with the latest developments in current events. Perhaps even history calls for assessment and reassessment, as American historian, Glenn May, describes in his book “A Past Updated”. Unfortunately, while we...

Free expression under siege

PRESUMABLY SPEAKING for President Benigno Aquino III, Presidential Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma described martial rule — which Ferdinand Marcos imposed throughout the country 43 years ago through Presidential Proclamation 1081 — as “one of the darkest chapters in the country’s history.”

Ending impunity is a state responsibility

By Luis V. Teodoro “BIZARRE” WAS how an American journalist, who’s in the Philippines to write an article on the killing of journalists, described what he’s finding out, among them:

Out of context

By Luis V. Teodoro EVERY REPORTER is—or should be—familiar with the who, what, where, when, why and how of news writing. What happened, to whom, where it happened, how, why and when are the details in the news that immediately provide media readers, viewers and listeners the information they seek...

Depoliticizing the Filipino

By Luis V. Teodoro ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE suggests mass disaffection with Philippine politics in the wake of the scandals that regularly appear in the Philippine media.

Hu Shuli: Investigative Reporting in China

By Melinda Quintos de Jesus IT WAS wonderful to welcome Hu Shuli once again to Manila, on the occasion of her receiving her Ramon Magsaysay Award.

The Aquino assassination: The challenge to media

By Melinda Quintos de Jesus Because I have been a journalist for so long, this lecture involves personal remembrance. Hopefully this will not get in the way of the main objective, which is to think about the role of the press, not only during the political period under discussion, but...

Obiter Dictum and the Impeachment Motions against President Aquino

By Melinda Quintos de Jesus PRESIDENT AQUINO delivered his fifth State of the Nation Address (SONA) to members of the three branches of government. He was welcomed to the august hall of the legislature with extended applause, and 85 times hand clapping cheered him as he spoke. Outside, militant activist...

Notes on the dominant press

By Luis V. Teodoro As 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?

By Melinda Quintos de Jesus 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.