Journalism Review Archives | Page 148 of 158

‘hate speech’, Minding the language

Advanced democracies outlaw ‘hate speech’ Hate speech” was among the descriptions given by complainants to the opinion column written by former Justice Isagani Cruz for the Philippine Daily Inquirer on Aug. 12. Defined as speech intended to degrade, intimidate, or incite violence or prejudicial action against certain social groupings,...

Lessons from The Frontlines

On Building Credible Media Lessons from The Frontlines By Eugenia Duran Apostol 2006 Magsaysay Awardee for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts In the 1880s, during Plaridel’s time, the Filipino was suffering from being subject to our Spanish colonizers. Today, after having gone through American and Japanese colonizers, we are free. But...

Monitors

Gloria’s pie in the sky Media were quick to spot the problem of funding of the infrastructure projects ticked off by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in her State of the Nation Address (Sona) last July 24. On the day of the Sona itself, Bandila asked the President’s economic managers...

Monitors: Online

Who they are The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) helped readers know more about the members of the Melo commission, which was commissioned by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to probe into the killings of journalists and activists. In an Aug. 24 post in its blog, PCIJ provided background...

Rallying Behind Bandila

ABS-CBN performs ‘act of leadership’—but who’s following? Rallying Behind Bandila By Hector Bryant L. Macale It promised leadership. When ABS-CBN announced it was reformatting its late night news, viewers sat up in attention. The network said more: it was moving the news to an earlier time slot. At 10:30...

Monitors: TV

Jailhouses don’t rock Stories on crime and criminals need not be confined to slapping scenes at the police station. Thankfully, 24 Oras knows that. Veering away from the usual police stories, the TV program reported on Aug. 16 on the plight of inmates in the Pasig City jails. It...

Monitors: Print

Jueteng blues In its report on Aug. 12 (“PNP now controls jueteng”), Malaya let out a mouthful about the Philippine National Police (PNP). Relying on interviews with Lingayen-Dagupan Bishop Oscar Cruz and Boy Mayor, the Senate witness and self-confessed jueteng operator, the Malaya report said PNP provincial directors have...

Speaking of Media

On (not quite) giving up… or something “It started with an e-mail sent by Jim Paredes to his large network of relatives and friends. It concerned the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s front page on him last Saturday headlined ‘Finally, APO’s Jim Paredes gives up on RP’ and by-lined Gerry Lirio....

Editor’s Note: Where Time has Stopped

For some time now, the mantra of the disillusioned among the supporters of People Power has been: “It’s now x years since Edsa 1 (or 2) and we still have this problem.” Well, here comes another variant: It is now 20 years after the ouster of the dictator and...

Editor’s Note: Form and Substance

With the invasion by computers and the Internet of almost every aspect of modern life, a change in the lifestyles and habits of those who use them is bound to happen. Among institutions, the mass media are definitely not an exception. In fact, it has become the conventional wisdom...