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The Drug War from the Perspective of Those Covering It

CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for its three pieces on the administration’s drug war. Written from the perspective of the media people covering it, the folio of articles also provided a breakdown of data gathered about the deaths that campaign has so far amassed. On Oct. 15,...

Documenting Social Media Abuse

CHEERS TO Rappler for its investigation of the fake social media accounts, trolls and bogus sites during the elections and its application as propaganda afterwards. The misuse and abuse of the social media for political purposes affects the quality of democratic discourse about public issues and concerns. Rappler posted...

Information Access: On Paper but Not in Practice

CHEERS TO the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) for reporting the failure of some government agencies to respond to its requests for information on the conduct of the administration’s anti-drug campaign. PCIJ reported that 40 days since it and the Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) sent access-to-information...

Looking into the Aguirre “Takeover”

THE MEAN season for Senator Leila de Lima seems far from over as the House of Representatives continue to hound the senator by presenting high-profile prisoners, among others, as witnesses to prove her alleged involvement in the illegal drug trade at the National Bilibid Prison (NBP) maximum security...

Cheap Stunt: Asking a Non-question

JEERS TO Bing Abadan of the Daily Manila Shimbun for playing the role of ”straight man” to President Rodrigo Duterte—and for diverting the media audience’s attention from the real issue in the ongoing House probe into Senator Leila De Lima’s alleged link to the New Bilibid Prison drug syndicate....

Evaluating the Impact of ‘War on Drugs’

CHEERS TO Philstar.com for developing an interactive microsite on the Duterte administration’s war on drugs. Published on Sept. 19, 2016, Newslab.Philstar.com examines the administration’s anti-illegal drugs campaign through four main categories of impact — policy, health, poverty and rule of law. Each category includes interactive charts and graphs,...

Veloso Execution: Damaging Damage Control

THREE MONTHS into the presidency, the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte still has not found a way to speak in one, clear and consistent voice – a failure that confuses the public at a time when so much is going on and the need for clarity is paramount....

Distasteful Headline

JEERS TO the Manila Standard for a headline that reeked with sexual innuendo. On Sept. 21, the Manila Standard ran a banner story on the House of Representatives hearing on the alleged involvement of Senator Leila de Lima with the New Bilibid Prison drug syndicate. The headline read...

Fact-Checking Duterte’s ‘Shoot-to-Kill’ Order

CHEERS TO VERA Files for fact-checking a Sept. 14 claim by the Philippines representative to the United Nations that President Rodrigo Duterte did not issue orders for the police to “shoot-to-kill” drug suspects. In “VERA FILES FACT CHECK: No shoot-to-kill order from Duterte?” (Sept. 17), VERA Files looked...

Covering Duterte’s Outbursts

IT WAS the expletive heard around the world. President Rodrigo Duterte made headlines again on Monday, Sept. 5, when he was reported to have cursed United States President Barack Obama in his answer to a question from media after his pre-departure speech at the Davao International Airport. Duterte was...