Journalism Review Archives | Page 139 of 158

Prioritizing basketball

JEERS TO TV Patrol for devoting a third of its air time to reports on the National Basketball Association (NBA) Finals last June 21 to the exclusion of other, more relevant stories, in the process raising questions on the news priorities of some media organizations. PJR Reports monitored the...

Sinning Against the ‘Sin’ Tax Bill

JEERS to Malaya Business Insight for its aggressively biased reporting of the deliberations on the “sin” tax bill spanning a year from March 2012 until 2013, after the passage of the bill into law last December 2012. From March 2012 to March 2013, Malaya Business Insight (MBI) published at...

Misbehaving Justice?

JEERS TO The Manila Times for its inaccurate and unfair reporting last June 17 on a Supreme Court (SC) Justice’s alleged tantrums.

Making sense of the numbers

CHEERS TO the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) for its groundbreaking work in providing the public accessible information on government spending, campaign finance, and budget transparency.

Stereotyping Muslims again

JEERS TO ABS-CBN 2 and GMA-7 for stereotyping Muslims in their reports on an incident that had nothing to do with religion or religious affiliation.

Discouraging Suicide: The Media’s Responsibility

JEERS TO THE ABS-CBN, GMA7, Solar TV, TV5, and the Manila Bulletin for their careless reporting of a suicide at the Metro Rail Transit Guadalupe station last May 8.

Conflict of interest

REPORTER NIKKO Dizon, whose byline appeared in the April 24 Philippine Daily Inquirer article "Bayan clears NPA: No extortion, it’s civil war", covers the defense beat for the said newspaper. She recently completed her Master’s in National Security Administration at the National Defense College of the Philippines and has...

Another Inquirer “mistake” (Updated)

JEERS TO THE Philippine Daily Inquirer for the flagrant inaccuracies in its front page story “NDF Anniversary: Bayan Muna clears NPA: No extortion, it’s civil war” dated April 24 (http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/396177/bayan-defends-npa-says-ambush-not-case-of-extortion#ixzz2RMxxluBv) that tend to put a party list group in a bad light.

The Inquirer’s latest “honest mistake”

JEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for publishing on its front page and its online edition a fake cover of Time Magazine with President Benigno Aquino III.

PJR Reports turns into a special annual

Starting this year, PJR Reports will be released as a special annual report on the state of the press.