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Providing facts, challenging mistaken notions: Media and the commemoration of Martial Law

THERE CAN never be enough stories on martial law. Filipinos failed to form a Truth Commission as the South Africans did to establish consensus about the Apartheid. We have yet to read a definitive history of the Marcos years. A generation of Filipino students still read Martial Law propaganda...

Torre de Manila controversy: Lack of context reduces issue to photobombing

FOLLOWING THE issuance of a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) by the Supreme Court (SC) last June, the Torre de Manila controversy surged back into the media. The battle between the Knights of Rizal (KOR) and the DM Consunji Inc. (DMCI) housing division DMCI Homes entered its third year with...

Newsroom oversight?

JEERS TO ABS-CBNnews.com for a false report on the reaction of University of the Philippines in Los Baños (UPLB) students to Vice President Jejomar Binay’s September 15, 2015 visit to UPLB.

Closing the Pandora’s Box—A Difficult Task

PRESIDENT AQUINO finally gave closure to the Mamasapano incident’s “alternative truth,” a controversy which the President himself publicly raised when he announced the government was probing another version of events in the SAF operation that led to the death of Malaysian bomb maker Zulkiflibin Hir alias Marwan during the...

An Alternative Truth?

NEARLY EIGHT months after, the Mamasapano incident once again found its way into the headlines after President Benigno Aquino III announced during a “Meet the Inquirer Multimedia forum” on Tuesday, September 8, that there could be an “alternative truth” to the bloody encounter that took the lives of at...

Inaccurate report refers to city as town

JEERS TO CNNPhilippines.com for inaccurately referring to Malolos as a town in two reports posted on September 16.

Slumbook entries as national news

JEERS TO The Manila Bulletin for classifying as national news a story on Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr.'s music, food and other preferences. Marcos Jr. Is believed likely to run for Vice President in 2016.

Entertainment trivia on the front pages

JEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer and The Philippine Star for prioritizing entertainment news on their front pages.

Adequate, but can still be improved

CHEERS TO the media for giving voice to the plight of Lumad communities whose members have been the victims of killings by paramilitary groups and alleged military elements in Surigao del Sur, Mindanao—although the coverage could have been better by providing the context in which the killings occurred.

Reporting the new EDSA traffic scheme:Doing a good job, so far

TO ADDRESS the continuing traffic woes in Metro Manila, Malacañang announced on September 1 that the Philippine National Police-Highway Patrol Group (PNP-HPG) will take over the enforcement of traffic rules and regulations on Epifanio delos Santos Avenue (EDSA).