Journalism Review Archives | Page 130 of 158

All eyes on Pacquiao, the boxerBut what of the legislator?

DUBBED THE “Fight of the Century”, the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather Jr. boxing match on May 2 (May 3 local time) received heavy international and national media coverage. A match five years in the making, the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight was hard to ignore not only because it involved two of the...

Demeaning

JEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for using a photo, which occupied about one-third of its front page, of the winner of a Miss Bikini pageant.

Blurring the line between news and ads

JEERS TO GMA News Online for failing to identify whether one of its articles was a news report or an advertisement.

Looking at IP displacement

CHEERS TO TV Patrol for looking at the displacement of indigenous people in Mindoro.

‘Newshen’ again?

JEERS TO the Manila Bulletin for its continuous use of the outdated and sexist term “newshen” to refer to female journalists.

Those non-existent ‘NGOs’

CHEERS TO CNN Philippines’ Network News for reminding the public that there are other “questionable," even non- existent non-government organizations (NGOs), not linked to Janet Lim-Napoles, but which were also involved in the pork barrel scam, and of the need to monitor the “progress or the apparent lack of...

PNP-AFP wrongful arrests

CHEERS TO ABS-CBN 2's TV Patrol for its investigative series on the Philippine National Police-Armed Forces of the Philippines (PNP-AFP) rewards system for the arrest of allegedly high- value terrorists and criminals in the Philippines.

Reporting the Veloso Case: Biased, sensationalized, tasteless

THE MANILA broadsheets as well as broadcast media covered the case of Mary Jane Veloso from the time it became news in the third week of January. They intensified the coverage as the date of her scheduled execution by firing squad on April 29 approached. The three broadsheets with...

Coverage of the BBL (7-14 April 2015): Bias and Prejudice against Bangsamoro

FORM APRIL 7 to April 14, the Center for Media Freedom & Responsibility (CMFR) recorded 71 reports in three major newspapers in the country (Manila Bulletin, Philippine Daily Inquirer and The Philippine Star) and 23 segments in primetime television news programs 24 Oras, Aksyon and TV Patrol on the Bangsamoro...

Rice as war casualty

CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for telling readers how conflicts in certain areas in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) result in lower agricultural productivity.