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 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... Image-making or information? By Luis V. Teodoro AMONG PUBLIC officials as well as those other individuals whose jobs and functions in society put them in the public eye, how they are perceived by others, as dictated by their interests, has become more and more critical. Beyond economics BY LUIS V. TEODORO DRAFTED IN the wake of the bitter struggles of the martial law period, and drawing from the lessons of that experience, the 1987 Constitution contains provisions meant to prevent the repetition of that terrible time, and to encourage the flowering of democratic choice. Prioritizing basketball JEERS TO TV Patrol for devoting a third of its air time to reports on the National Basketball Association (NBA) Finals last June 21 to the exclusion of other, more relevant stories, in the process raising questions on the news priorities of some media organizations. PJR Reports monitored the... Sinning Against the ‘Sin’ Tax Bill JEERS to Malaya Business Insight for its aggressively biased reporting of the deliberations on the “sin” tax bill spanning a year from March 2012 until 2013, after the passage of the bill into law last December 2012. From March 2012 to March 2013, Malaya Business Insight (MBI) published at... « Previous1…143144145146147…203Next »
