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Unholy News during the Holy Week: Who’s Covering if Print, TV takes a Break?

NEWS NEVER sleeps; but there are times when much of the news is expected to take a breather. Holy Week is one such time in the Philippines. Custom has dictated the country to observe the Easter Triduum as a national holiday, providing a four-day break from work. It...

Covering Immigration Woes

THE NINOY AQUINO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (NAIA) had been ranked among the world’s worst airports in the past. In any one of the four terminals, passengers have found much to complain about. NAIA 1 was built during the Martial Law years, and while it has undergone rebuilding and refurbishment,...

Pardon for Erring Cops: Media Coverage Tame and Uncritical

PRESIDENT DUTERTE vowed to defend cops anew after nineteen police officers tagged in the killing of former Albuera, Leyte Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr. in November 2016 surrendered, following the issuance of an arrest warrant against them on March 20. The cops were charged with murder. Speaking to local...

Flashpoint in the East? Eyes on Benham Rise

WHERE IS Benham Rise? Not everyone knows. It seemed neither did the President Duterte. “Let us not fight about ownership or sovereignty at this time because things are going great for my country.” President Rodrigo Duterte has recycled his message in speeches during his term, in an attempt to...

Postponing Local Polls

A NEW setback loomed over the barangay elections after Rep. Robert Ace Barbers filed a bill seeking to delay the polls scheduled this year to March 25, 2020.The elections were already postponed when President Rodrigo Duterte signed into law RA 10923, moving it from October 13, 2016 to October...

PNP’s Claim: No EJKs, Only Homicide

“PERSISTENT AND irritating” was how Philippine National Police (PNP) Director General Ronald Dela Rosa described the supposed misuse of police data by the media and Vice President Leni Robredo in claiming that the government’s war on drugs have resulted into more than 7,000 deaths. The continued coverage on the...

Reviewing the Impeachment Process

FILIPINOS ARE not strangers to the idea of impeachment. Recent political history saw the impeachment of a sitting president, Joseph Estrada; an incumbent chief justice of the Supreme Court, Renato Corona; not to speak of five failed impeachment complaints against former President Gloria Arroyo. An impeachment complaint was...

Tokhang Take Two: Covering the PNP’s Return to the Drug War

WITHIN SEVEN months of President Duterte’s drug war, over 7,000 persons have been killed by police or by so-called vigilantes/unidentified assailants. Meanwhile two major scandals revealed the involvement of ranking officers of the Philippine National Police (PNP) in criminal activities including illegal drugs: the murder of Albuera, Leyte...

Water Under The Bridge: Sidelining Lascañas’ Testimony

IS THE involvement of Rodrigo Duterte, then mayor of Davao City, in the killings perpetrated by the Davao Death Squad a dead issue? A member of the DDS came forward to testify before the Senate on March 6 to detail his participation in the notorious group, its links...

CA Rejects Yasay: Media Follow Paper Trail

“I AM a Filipino citizen. I am not an American, I am not a dual citizen, I am not stateless. I am a Filipino citizen, and I am a Filipino in thought, in word, and in deed.” Hounded by the doubts about his ineligibility for government office, Perfecto Yasay...