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Covering a ‘coup’: Lost in Fort Bonifacio

By Booma B. Cruz SO WHAT really happened in Fort Bonifacio on Feb. 26? For those watching on television, it was like an unfolding drama. But for journalists who went to the military camp that day, it was more like a comedy gone awry. From start to finish, the...

The Big Chill at GMA-7

What Proclamation 1017 did The Big Chill at GMA-7 By Booma B. Cruz In less than 24 hours after President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo placed the country under a state of national emergency on Feb. 24, news organizations felt the chilling effect of Proclamation 1017. The Daily Tribune was raided at...

What is Sedition?

Don’t be surprised if government officials like Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez are suddenly enumerating the provisions of the Revised Penal Code of the Philippines in justifying the continued media watch of the government, even though President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has already lifted Presidential Proclamation 1017 last March 3. The...

Petition for Certiorari, Prohibition and Declaratory Relief

(An executive summary) A. Objectives a. To declare that the Executive Department, represented by the Executive Secretary, the Secretary of Justice, the Director General of the Philippine National Police (PNP), the Chairman of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) and their officers, agents or other persons acting under their authority...

‘No’ To The Dark Days

After PP 1017, journalists take battle to court ‘No’ To The Dark Days By Hector Bryant L. Macale and Nathan J. Lee PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION 1017 may have already been lifted, but the battle for press freedom continues. Following recent pronouncements by senior government officials seeking to impose restrictions on...

COMMENTARY || 1017: The President’s Coup

By Vergel O. Santos CERTAIN things are likely to be overlooked about the presidential proclamation of a state of national emergency—1017. Here are three that deserve particular attention for their dire consequences: One, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has withdrawn the proclamation only nominally; the suppressive spirit behind it remains. The trick...

The Ultra Tragedy: When Media Followed the Market

By Luige A. del Puerto AFTER more than 70 people died in a mad rush to get inside a sports complex where a noontime TV extravaganza was to take place one morning in February, one news company found itself the subject of the news. ABS-CBN, on whose station the...

The Mystery of the Midnight News

IF MEDIA is running after advertisers, and advertisers are running after the market, what is the market running after? The answer must have been disquieting for in the third meeting of news media representatives, or Media Nation 3, in February, journalists found themselves seeking the help of advertisers in...

They shrank the paper! Inquirer goes Compact

FOR the detractors of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, it was a con-firmation of their worst suspicions: the newspaper had gone tabloid. In an unprecedented move by a Manila-based newspaper, the nation’s largest selling paper has made a smaller version of the broadsheet and is distributing this in key areas...

Journalism’s Dirty Little Secret

By Alcuin Papa PLAGIARISM is one of journalism’s unforgivable sins. In the US, where standards of journalism are strictly observed, cases of plagiarism have been reported even in respectable publications like the New York Times and USA Today. American publications are quick to publicly admit and apologize for acts...