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Media call out government’s all brawn enforcement of ECQ protocols

CHEERS TO the media for keeping in the public eye the aggressive implementation of the recent enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) with reference to human rights and past quarantine abuses. Because of a record-breaking surge in Covid-19 cases, the government placed Metro Manila, Cavite, Laguna, Rizal and Bulacan under ECQ...

Philstar.com takes down own report but publishes DOF response

JEERS TO Philstar.com for taking down its own report on the country’s agreements with China while publishing a Department of Finance (DOF) letter protesting its contents. On April 1, Philstar.com published an article titled “China projects in Philippines found riddled with ‘secretive conditions’”. It claimed that the country’s contracts...

Media Review

Every two weeks, CMFR will provide a quick recap of the media coverage of the biggest stories or issues, noting the same slips that our monitors have been doing. We intend this as a quick mapping of news, providing a guide for journalists and identifying gaps in reporting, the...

Tracking the vaccine roll-out

CHEERS TO News.ABS-CBN.com for creating an interactive vaccine tracker embedded in its reports on the vaccine roll-out.

Unheard grievances, rising cases: Rappler spotlights government rank and file

CHEERS TO Rappler for looking at administration officials’ inability to protect their own ranks against COVID-19, which has obviously contributed to the surge in cases in the capital where most national government agency headquarters are located.

Why give Harry Roque more screen time?

JEERS TO TV5 for giving Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque more screen time, as though the media were not already providing him too much of that by religiously covering his daily press briefings and interviews.

Assessing the economic impact of the failure to control the pandemic

LAST MARCH 15, the Philippines made international headlines with the first anniversary of the world’s longest and most militarized lockdown. Most reports in Philippine media called attention to the spike in the numbers of cases in the past weeks which led to localized lockdowns.

Media Review

MEDIA DID note the anniversary of the first day of the lockdown in March last year. But reporters did not choose to spend time reviewing all the policy failures that doomed the government’s attempts to address COVID-19. The anniversary should have occasioned a review of how government dilly-dallied about...

Government incompetence responsible for delays in vaccine arrivals — media

CHEERS TO Inquirer and Rappler for not letting pass government’s excuse for the delay of the vaccine roll out which presidential spokesperson Harry Roque hyped as a fitting Valentine’s gift for Filipinos, scheduled as it was to arrive mid-February.

Rappler reviews evidence of police culpability in drug war killings

CHEERS TO Rappler’s investigative team for reviewing the drug war files and revealing government’s failure to hold police accountable for alleged cases of extrajudicial killings in their operations.

Media call out government’s all brawn enforcement of ECQ protocols

Philstar.com takes down own report but publishes DOF response

Media Review

Tracking the vaccine roll-out

Unheard grievances, rising cases: Rappler spotlights government rank and file

Why give Harry Roque more screen time?

Assessing the economic impact of the failure to control the pandemic

Media Review

Government incompetence responsible for delays in vaccine arrivals — media

Rappler reviews evidence of police culpability in drug war killings

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