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Crisis: International

Tamil editor shot dead A Tamil newspaper editor was killed outside his home on the besieged Jaffna Peninsula on Aug. 20, international and local media reported. Sinnathamby Sivamaharajah, managing director of the Tamil-language Namathu Eelanadu newspaper, was shot dead in the town of Vellippalai. The motive for the killing...

Crisis: National

Reporter escapes kidnap try A correspondent of tabloid Police Files Tonite was nearly abducted while waiting for a ride home in Calamba, Laguna. According to police reports, Dick Garay tried to push him into a van on the evening of Aug. 15. But Garay resisted and managed to run...

Getting lost in the footsteps of Bin Laden

CNN international correspondent Christiane Amanpour’s much-heralded documentary, “In the Footsteps of bin Laden,” sought to show the world the social forces that shaped the life of the “most feared terrorist of our time.” This two-hour documentary con-sisted of interviews with people who had met Osama bin Laden at least...

REVIEW: The Lebanon-Israeli war through the eyes of CNN and BBC

REVIEW: The Lebanon-Israeli war through the eyes of CNN and BBC Demonizing the ‘enemy’ By Jamal Ashley Abbas IN MANY WAYS, the just-concluded Israel-Lebanon war was unique. It was the first war directly covered by different TV networks on the ground. While the combatants—the Israeli armed forces and the...

Embedded Bias

Unbeknownst to many readers, media portray bias in conflict stories by using the following devices: • Excising, which means portraying a conflict without showing the other side, or by ignoring or even obscuring it. The enemy is absent and only symbolized. • Sanitizing, which means understating the violence or...

Covering conflict in Mindanao: Terror and the Press

Covering conflict in Mindanao Terror and the Press By Crysta Imperial Rara MINDANAO SEEMS to be the focus of many foreign-funded development projects nowadays. Whether it’s micro-financing, governance, the peace process, and even press coverage, foreign govern-ments, institutions, and universities seem to have a preference for initiatives that target...

Censoring Documentaries

TV current affairs programs under the glare of the MTRCB Censoring Documentaries By Nathan Lee Ten years ago, censorship was a problem that bedeviled films. Today, censorship is still a problem and its exercise has come to include television documentaries. In the past few months, four current affairs programs...

MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO. 108

MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO. 108 Guidelines on Appearances of Department Heads and other officials of the executive department before Congress. WHEREAS, the principle of separation of powers between the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of government is enshrined in the Constitution; WHEREAS, the Constitution establishes crucial safeguards regarding the power...

Keeping Secrets

How gov’t routinely violates the public’s right to information Keeping Secrets By Yvonne T. Chua AT THE start of the Arroyo presidency, the Philippines was being held up as among the most open democracies in Southeast Asia. Thanks to the 1987 Constitution guaranteeing Filipinos the right to information on...

Not a Gay Affair

A columnist bashes homosexuals and gets a backlash Not a Gay Affair By Venus L. Elumbre and Don Gil K. Carreon FACT: A person has the right to throw his fist around. Question: Does this right end where another person’s nose begins? On Aug. 12, a column by retired...