We will not surrender our freedomsToday, Independence Day, we renew our pledge to serve the people, to continue speaking truth to power, and to guard and defend freedom of the press and of expression from all threats.Read More Covering the PandemicRead more Covering the CoViD-19 Pandemic Beyond Janet Napoles By Vergel O. Santos WITH AROUND 400,000 protesters descending on the Luneta – not to mention others turning out in fair numbers elsewhere around the country and some parts abroad – Monday felt, positively, like another day of great unburdening. The feeling was unmistakable in the brightened faces and strong... Online fury fuels movement in the making Media reports based on the National Bureau of Investigation’s probe of an alleged P10-billion scam involving the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or pork barrel has revived public interest and generated widespread discussion. The reports sparked more than just the kind of idle talk about corruption in government. Commentary and... CSR and the media By Luis V. Teodoro Although the Philippines is a particularly disaster-prone country year ’round, both because of its geographical location (it sits on the Pacific “Ring of Fire” and is directly in the path of Pacific-generated storms) and the flawed and even non-existent environmental policies of the governments that have... An exercise in incoherence By Melinda Quintos de Jesus I CAN only guess at the objective of the Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI) “roundtable” with Janet Lim Napoles, the primary object of a five month inquiry by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) for her involvement in what has now been called the “pork barrel... Napoles loses it By Luis V. Teodoro JANET LIM Napoles asked for it, and she got it: a meeting with (Philippine Daily) Inquirer columnists, editors, and reporters. The latter agreed, thereby giving Napoles the rare opportunity to present to its entire staff, including its publisher, her side of the story re her supposed... Evaluating the programs of the Aquino gov’t CHEERS TO ABS-CBN Corporation and GMA Network for keeping tabs on the performance of President Benigno S. Aquino III based on his campaign and inaugural promises as well as his past state of the nation addresses (SONA). Paradigm shift in the killing of journalists THE NUMBERS alone should be cause for concern. The killing of journalists is continuing, with 134 killed in the line of duty out of a total number of 201 killed since 1986. Sixteen have been killed since 2010, when Benigno Aquino III assumed the Presidency—on a promise, one might... The pros and cons of cash grants CHEERS TO ABS-CBN’s Cheche Lazaro Presents for its in-depth review of the state of the government’s human development plan called Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or 4Ps. (Sunday’s Best, ABS-CBN 2, July 21 ; ABS-CBN News Channel/ANC, July 22) Resolving conflicts of interest By Luis V. Teodoro CONFLICTS BETWEEN public interest—the public right to, and its stake in, unbiased and fair reporting as a critical factor in the formation of opinion and in decision-making—and the interests of the owners of the news media are almost inevitable, whether in the Philippines or in those... Pork-barrel scam: a billion per year for ten years CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for a six-part investigative series that revived public interest in and widespread discussion on the pork barrel, which for years has been the object of claims that it is a major source of corruption. The subject of the report was the alleged P10-billion... « Previous1…142143144145146…202Next »
