Online fury fuels movement in the making Media reports based on the National Bureau of Investigation’s probe of an alleged P10-billion scam involving the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or pork barrel has revived public interest and generated widespread discussion. The reports sparked more than just the kind of idle talk about corruption in government. Commentary and... Evaluating the programs of the Aquino gov’t CHEERS TO ABS-CBN Corporation and GMA Network for keeping tabs on the performance of President Benigno S. Aquino III based on his campaign and inaugural promises as well as his past state of the nation addresses (SONA). The pros and cons of cash grants CHEERS TO ABS-CBN’s Cheche Lazaro Presents for its in-depth review of the state of the government’s human development plan called Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or 4Ps. (Sunday’s Best, ABS-CBN 2, July 21 ; ABS-CBN News Channel/ANC, July 22) Pork-barrel scam: a billion per year for ten years CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for a six-part investigative series that revived public interest in and widespread discussion on the pork barrel, which for years has been the object of claims that it is a major source of corruption. The subject of the report was the alleged P10-billion... 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. « Previous1…141142143144145…162Next »
