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 Supreme Court discourse on Cybercrime Law I THINK the online community in the Philippines should take some time to listen in on the presentation of the oral arguments in the Supreme Court against the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012. It is not easy listening. Not all of it is riveting or compelling. But the opportunity... Free TV, the tabloids and elections THE PHILIPPINE media have often been accused of bias in the coverage of elections. But inadequacy rather than partiality has been their more telling flaw. Gunmen in the news SUCH A terrible subject for this blog to take up at the start of the year! Of course, there are other issues—but this one has taken hold of the mind and the mood, as only senseless killing does, as only the deaths of children can do. Before interest in... Abolishing the PCGG PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION on Good Government (PCGG) Chair Andres Bautista may have a point. The PCGG may have to be abolished—but only so it can be reorganized so it can do better, and not because the cost of recovering the wealth the late Ferdinand Marcos amassed during his 21 years... Social change and the crisis of information INFORMATION IS what the Reproductive Health (RH) and Freedom of Information (FOI) bills are all about. The first would provide women with information on their own bodies—which for too many Filipinos apparently remains terra incognita even into their adulthood—and couples with the information they need that would enable them... Courtesy of the Brits: An Inquiry into the State of the Press Leave it to the Brits to respond to a crisis with gravitas. Perhaps, to a fault, as suggested by Alan Cowell in his column on Page Two of the International Herald Tribune (December 4, 2012) where he writes about the Leveson Inquiry, which looked into the state of the... The price of (limited) success EVERY PHILIPPINE President since Marcos has been critical of the press and has demanded that it behave in a manner acceptable to government. Marcos’ main complaint, as it was that of Corazon Aquino, Fidel Ramos, Joseph Estrada, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, and now of Benigno S. Aquino III, was the... An underhanded law THE PRESIDENT’S remark that proper news practitioners should have no reason to worry if the Right of Reply Law passes is not only patronizing but also inversely misleading. It is precisely the fair-minded and self-respecting, the rightly skeptical and dogged, among the journalists whom the law penalizes–those resistant to... PNoy’s thing with the media YES, ONE isn’t quite sure yet what word it is to describe this strange weight that seems to bear down on President Benigno S. Aquino III’s relationship with the press. Most journalists say that the President really has this thing about the press, adding quickly, he just doesn’t like... His kind of people THE PHILIPPINE Daily Inquirer described President Benigno S. Aquino III as “affable” during his speech at the 9th MediaNation “Summit” last Friday, November 23, in contrast to his “combative” stance in at least three events this year when he rebuked the media for their alleged inaccuracy, negativity, and focus... « Previous1…6789Next »
