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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...

Media’s disinterest in the issues of delayed rehabilitation of Marawi

Photo from the Task Force Bangon Marawi official website. AFTER SEVERAL postponements, the ceremony to kickstart Marawi City’s rehabilitation finally pushed through on October 30 – without President Rodrigo Duterte in attendance. Authorities had earlier scheduled the groundbreaking for October 17, the first anniversary of the city’s “liberation,” then moved...

Sidebar | The Magnetic Lifters: Recalling Critical Details

Read article: The Drugs That Got Away: Questions Linger on Multibillion-Peso Drug Shipment Photo from the PDEA Top Stories Facebook page. THE USE of magnetic lifters to smuggle narcotics is central to this controversy. Aside from showing photographs of the lifters, media reports also said that the magnetic lifters...

The Drugs That Got Away: Questions Linger on Multibillion-Peso Drug Shipment

Photo from PDEA Top Stories Facebook page. THE MONTHS-LONG blame game between the Bureau of Customs (BOC) and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) over the loss of PHP 6.8 billion—now estimated at PHP 11 billion—worth of shabu (crystal meth) that allegedly slipped past port inspectors appears to be...

Villar Company Franchise Grant: Media Note Possible Conflict of Interest

CHEERS TO Rappler for pointing out a possible case of conflict of interest in the granting of a 25-year franchise to Streamtech Systems Technologies (SST), a venture of the group of companies owned by tycoon and former Senator Manuel Villar, to provide nationwide telecommunications services. In its October...

Why Withdraw? Media Explain IPU Role

Screengrab from ABS-CBN News YouTube account. CHEERS TO ANC’s Dateline Philippines and the Philippine Daily Inquirer for going beyond reporting the reactions of members of Congress to House Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s proposal that the Philippines withdraw from the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). By providing needed context, their reports highlighted...

On the ‘Sagay 9’: Media Note Police’s Premature Conclusion

CHEERS TO CNN Philippines’ News Night for its report on the ‘Sagay 9,’ which noted the police’s premature conclusion on the killing of nine farmers in Hacienda Nene in Sagay City, Negros Occidental on October 20. The News Night report on October 22 noted that while the police were...

Marawi A Year After: Media Spotlight People’s Plight and Rehab Woes

CHEERS TO the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) and MindaNews for a joint, two-part report that called attention to the Maranao people’s plight and the delayed rehabilitation of the city of Marawi. President Rodrigo Duterte promised that Marawi will be rebuilt after the military regained control from...

Who is Michael Yang? Online Media Flag Duterte’s Chinese ‘Economic Adviser’

ON SEPTEMBER 4, President Rodrigo Duterte put a Chinese businessman named Michael Yang on the media radar when he mentioned the latter in a speech before the Philippine Military Academy Alumni Association Inc (PMAAAI). The president switched from his familiar tirade against drugs and suddenly told his audience:...