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Monitors: TV

Minding the children Media gave special attention to the worsening child labor situation in the country last June. On June 27, ANC started a series on child workers but with a different angle: the proliferation of adolescent pimps in the metropolis. The comprehensive series also looked at how former...

Monitors: Print

Hearing just one voice Was it an oversight or a simple case of bias? In a story on July 20 (“One Voice has P252-M advertising ‘war chest’”), Manila Standard Today quoted Nueva Ecija Rep. Rodolfo Antonio as saying that the anti-Charter change group, One Voice, was ready to spend...

Monitor

Dangerous mistake Can a case of mistaken identity be deadly? For the lumad and migrant settlers of sitio Bendum in Bukidnon, it could be. On June 17, media inaccurately reported that an armed encounter had taken place between soldiers and the New People’s Army in the sitio. The clash...

Some Guidelines: Covering Women

As early as 1993, the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility, together with the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women, organized a workshop on reporting of crimes against women. Journalists and civic leaders who participated in that event drafted the following guidelines: I. Consent: Recognize the victims’...

COMMENTARY: Coverage of the Subic rape case – A Trial Becomes a Telenovela

COMMENTARY By Rachel E. Khan Coverage of the Subic rape case A Trial Becomes a Telenovela The coverage of the ongoing trial of the Subic rape case is two-edged. On the one hand, the persistent coverage of the trial, especially at the onset, served to pressure both the Philippine...

A recipe for hard times: The free papers are here

By Hector Bryant L. Macale THEY’RE SHORT, colorful, fun, and easy to read. But can the country’s free commuter newspapers save what would appear to be a declining newspaper readership among Filipinos? Well, it might be too early to say that. However, the proliferation of free commuter newspapers and...

Journalism and Public Relations: Friends or Enemies?

By Nathan J. Lee and Venus L. Elumbre LIKE oil and water, public relations and journalism are traditionally regarded as two distinct professions that cannot mix. One side sells products; the other purveys truth as best as one possibly could. Because of the basic difference in functions, one stresses...

The National Press Club Elections: Politics, Media-Style

By Don Gil K. Carreon AT A time when unity is most needed by Philippine media, discord reigns at the National Press Club (NPC), the country’s oldest organization of journalists. Politics has divided the club. The two major parties—the Press Freedom Party (PFP) and the Reform Party (RP)—that vied...

Crisis: International

Israeli-Hezbollah conflict takes toll on media An Israeli plane fired two missiles at Al-Manar TV, the satellite news channel affiliated with the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah, last July 13. Two employees were injured by flying glass, and a civilian in a nearby house was also wounded. The top floors...

Crisis: National

Davao del Sur broadcaster slain Armando “Rachman” Pace, 51, a broadcaster in Davao del Sur, was gunned down by unidenti-fied men on July 18 in Digos City. Pace, a block timer for radio station dxDS, was waylaid by two men on a motorcycle along a local highway, two kilometers...