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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...

‘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...