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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.

Exposing the pols’ offshore accounts

CHEERS TO the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) for its comprehensive and timely two-part exposé on the undeclared offshore accounts of several Filipino politicians and former government executives. Coming as it did during election season, the expose should help voters choose better leaders.

Breakfast at Mary Grace

JEERS TO VERA Files for publishing a puff piece disguised as a “commentary” on athlete James Yap last April 2, 2013.

Playing the blame game: the media coverage of a minor’s suicide

The mainstream media participated in the blame game that started in cyberspace when a student publication broke the story of a freshman University of the Philippines student’s suicide mere hours after the incident through a note on a social media site.

Rappler replies on “Telco coverage”

We at Rappler take criticism seriously, not only because criticism provides us with the necessary input to hone our craft, but also because we believe no individual or institution is above criticism.

Revisiting Doña Paz

CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer and GMA News TV for reminding the public of the horrors of the sinking of the passenger ship MV Doña Paz, which was the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in world history.