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Distasteful—and exploitative

JEERS TO several media organizations for showing a video of women in scantily clad costumes dancing suggestively during a Liberal Party (LP) gathering and birthday celebration on October 1.

Gore on the front page

JEERS TO The Philippine Star for publishing on its front page a graphic photo of the 2006 killing of an Abra congressman.

Demeaning—again

JEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer and The Philippine Star for using as banner photo, a picture of Miss World Philippines candidates in their bikinis.

Lumad killings: Who’s responsible?

THE KILLING of two Lumad leaders and an educator in Surigao del Sur on September 1 has brought to public attention accusations of human rights violations and harassments allegedly committed by the military and paramilitary groups operating in the non-Muslim indigenous people’s communities in Mindanao.

Setting the entertainment agenda

IN A previous monitor (“Entertainment trivia on the front pages”) posted September 16, the Center for Media Freedom & Responsibility (CMFR) noted the importance given by newspapers to the phenomenal following gained by AlDub, a love team featured on the comedy segment Kalyeserye of lunchtime show Eat Bulaga aired...

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...