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Commemorating young heroes

CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for running a week-long series regarding young martyrs during the Marcos dictatorship (1972-1986).

One-sided, single sourced

JEERS TO several media organizations for running a one-sided, single sourced story regarding Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte’s allegedly making a local tourist swallow a cigarette butt.

Reporting the Iglesia ni Cristo Mass Action: Leaving the public uninformed

MEMBERS OF the influential Iglesia ni Cristo (INC—literally, Christ’s Church) sect trooped to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Padre Faura street in Manila on August 27, protesting what they said was the extraordinary attention being paid by DOJ Secretary Leila de Lima to the illegal detention case that...

Unverified endorsement

JEERS TO the Manila Bulletin and InterAksyon.com for failing to verify the truth of a statement by Communist Party of the Philippines founding chair Jose Ma. Sison allegedly endorsing a political candidate. In the August 30 InterAksyon report “Joma backs Duterte; mayor says there’s ’50-50′ chance he’ll run for...

Supreme Court Ruling on Enrile Bail: Beyond Humanitarian Grounds

CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer and Rappler.com for their analyses of the Supreme Court’s (SC) ruling on Senator Juan Ponce Enrile’s petition for bail.

Binay’s ho-hum “counter-SONA”

A WEEK AFTER President Benigno Simeon Aquino III appeared before a joint session of the Congress and spoke to his “bosses” for his last State of the Nation Address (SONA), Vice President Jejomar Binay delivered his own version which he described as the “True” SONA (and which the media...

Commemorating young heroes

One-sided, single sourced

Reporting the Iglesia ni Cristo Mass Action: Leaving the public uninformed

Unverified endorsement

Supreme Court Ruling on Enrile Bail: Beyond Humanitarian Grounds

Binay’s ho-hum “counter-SONA”

Covering the Iglesia Ni Cristo Controversy: Imbalanced and unfair reports leave audience still uninformed

Distorting the truth about IDPs

Protecting the seas

Celebrity ‘news’

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