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Repeating the same mistakes

JEERS TO SEVERAL news organizations for committing the same old errors in much of media coverage of suicide.

Cheers to ABS-CBN 2's TV Patrol for reviewing the current state of fire protection in the country and for looking into the unused 2 billion pesos budget of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) since 2009.

Breaking confidentiality agreement (UPDATED)

JEERS TO GMA 7's Born to Be Wild for breaching a confidentiality agreement with a source by disclosing the location of an unstudied and endemic spider species.

Proofreading error?

JEERS TO THE Manila Times for erroneously associating the acronym of the Philippine armed forces with an international news wire organization in a report published in their online news portal. The paper’s editor attributed the error to an over-zealous proof reader.

Four months after Yolanda: Post-disaster news coverage

Yolanda’s destruction has retained global attention as efforts continue to address the problems of the affected communities in Central Visayas. The public has not let go of its interest in the plight of the displaced nor of their concern about how they are coping and the how well they...

Blown out of proportion

The incident involving celebrity-host Vhong Navarro gained massive media coverage which highlighted some failures of the press and raised questions on media coverage, news priorities, context and media perspective and news analysis.

Beyond the five Ws and the H: Probing the ‘Binay incident’

THE PHILIPPINE Daily Inquirer reported on Dec. 19, 2013 that Makati City mayor Junjun Binay had several security guards of Dasmariñas Village arrested for barring the exit of his convoy on Nov. 30, 1013 through a restricted gate. The media reported the incident, but failed to go beyond the...

Unverified, sensationalized reporting (UPDATED)

JEERS TO ABS-CBN 2’s Bandila for blatantly violating the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas’ (KBP) Broadcast Code of the Philippines and the network’s own internal “Standards Ethics Manual” in a report about an alleged ‘flesh-eating’ disease that the same report said was “slowly spreading” (unti-unting kumakalat) in the...

Navarro, Navarro, and more Navarro

JEERS TO TV Patrol and 24 Oras for allotting a large percentage of air time to the incident involving celebrity-host Vhong Navarro, and failing to provide reports on key issues and events that day.

(PART 2) Reporting ‘Yolanda’: More needed from the media

Media should always learn from past experience, but climate change and the unprecedented magnitude of recent disasters signal a new level of learning. The media mind set needs to break away from the passive, reactive mode and re-evaluate its role as information provider.