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Xi State Visit Aftermath: What Joint Energy Exploration?

AMID TENSION over China’s continuing intrusion in the West Philippine Sea, Chinese President Xi Jinping flew to the Philippines on November 20 for a two-day state visit. It was the first by a Chinese head of state in 13 years, and during the term of President Rodrigo Duterte whose...

Reporting the Hearing on Foreign Workers: More Information Needed

THE CREATION of enough jobs for Filipinos has challenged every administration. The Philippine Statistics Authority’s October 2018 Labor Force Survey recorded a 5.1 percent unemployment rate. The Social Weather Stations’ Third Quarter 2018 Survey published on November 10, meanwhile, pegged adult joblessness at twenty-two percent or an estimated 9.8...

Mega Rehab Center Woes: Addict Rehabilitation Not a Government Priority

THE KILLING of alleged drug users and petty traders makes the news on a daily basis, but the rehabilitation of drug addicts remains underreported. Few media reports have looked at the situation in the country’s rehab centers, among them the largest facility in the country, the Drug Abuse...

Paalam, Filipino? Unanswered Questions on CHED Memo 20

ON NOVEMBER 10, the Supreme Court (SC) lifted the 2015 temporary restraining order (TRO) on the implementation of Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Memorandum 20. It upheld the removal of Filipino, Panitikan (Literature) and the Constitution as core subjects in the college curriculum. The coverage reported the decision and provided...

Imelda’s Graft Conviction: Knowledge of Legal Procedures a Must in Reporting the Case

MEDIA’S EYES may have been on Imelda Marcos, but reports may have missed the legal issues. The Sandiganbayan 5th division found former First Lady and incumbent Ilocos Norte 2nd District Representative Imelda Marcos guilty of seven counts of graft. The Court said that the former First Lady funneled...

Too Much, Too Soon: Premature Campaigning via Media Exposure

AS THE midterm elections draw near, the electorate is once again being deluged with a tsunami of premature campaigning. The official campaign period has yet to begin, but some candidates for public office already have a head start over their rivals. Their names and faces are plastered everywhere,...

Third Telco Race: Not Much Said About the China Connection

Photo from the Department of Information and Communications Technology Facebook page ON NOVEMBER 7, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) declared the Mislatel consortium the provisional new major player (NMP) that will break the duopoly of Globe Telecom and PLDT Inc. over Philippine cell phone and internet services. The...

Online Report Supports Distorted Narrative on the Media

Ambassador Jan Top Christensen | CMFR file photo JEERS TO news.ABS-CBN.com for a report that focused on the misleading statements of a single source, and ignored others as well as the current threats to the Philippine press. A story on the website reported the remarks by the Ambassador...

Policing the Police: The Inquirer on the PNP’s “Internal Cleansing”

Screengrab from Inquirer.net. CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for its two-part report on the faulty internal mechanisms for police accountability. Inquirer reporters Krixia Subingsubing and Mariejo Ramos presented data from the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO). While 3,521 NCR-based police officers have been charged administratively...

A View to a Kill: Investigative Report Finds Police-Vigilante Link

Screen shot from Rappler.com CHEERS TO Rappler for “Murder in Manila,” a seven-part series on the Philippine National Police’s (PNP) involvement in some cases of extra-judicial killings (EJKs). While much of the media has reduced the Duterte “drug war” narrative to mere crime reports, the Rappler series, a...