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 More on 2013 Elections I think we have done it again, making bad out of something good. Automated elections were hailed the first time around, as the speed with which winners were proclaimed made everyone wonder why it took us so long to turn to our system to machines. For sure, there were grave doubts... A national fantasy “POLITICAL MATURITY” is one of our great national hang-ups. We like wearing it for the same reason that a child given to fantasies of adulthood likes wearing Mom’s large, high-heeled shoes. Stereotyping Muslims again JEERS TO ABS-CBN 2 and GMA-7 for stereotyping Muslims in their reports on an incident that had nothing to do with religion or religious affiliation. Facebook Face-off IT’S BEGINNING to look like a stretch, but assuming the integrity of the May 2013 mid-term exercise—meaning the votes cast were accurately counted by the Comelec’s problematic PCOS machines and transmitted—the efforts of individual Netizens as well as groups to influence the outcome seems to have come to naught. Discouraging Suicide: The Media’s Responsibility JEERS TO THE ABS-CBN, GMA7, Solar TV, TV5, and the Manila Bulletin for their careless reporting of a suicide at the Metro Rail Transit Guadalupe station last May 8. Automation 2013: A Post-Mortem I went early on May 13 to cast my vote. The precinct was in much better state than what we found in 2010. It seemed as though the different teams, the Board of Election Inspectors (BEIs), the volunteers, and barangay officials had worked on a better system of time... “Making” democracy THE CLAIM that free expression is not absolute falls regularly from the lips of people who’re basically hostile to it, among them certain members of the 15th Congress who were prepared to swear on a stack of Bibles their allegiance to free expression, access to information and press freedom,... Conflict of interest REPORTER NIKKO Dizon, whose byline appeared in the April 24 Philippine Daily Inquirer article "Bayan clears NPA: No extortion, it’s civil war", covers the defense beat for the said newspaper. She recently completed her Master’s in National Security Administration at the National Defense College of the Philippines and has... Another Inquirer “mistake” (Updated) JEERS TO THE Philippine Daily Inquirer for the flagrant inaccuracies in its front page story “NDF Anniversary: Bayan Muna clears NPA: No extortion, it’s civil war” dated April 24 (http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/396177/bayan-defends-npa-says-ambush-not-case-of-extortion#ixzz2RMxxluBv) that tend to put a party list group in a bad light. Politicians and journalists THIS YEAR marks the 20th year since the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) declared May 3 World Press Freedom Day. May 3 continues to resonate with irony in the Philippines, where, since 1986, or seven years before the declaration, the killing of journalists and media workers... « Previous1…144145146147148…202Next »
