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 Misbehaving Justice? JEERS TO The Manila Times for its inaccurate and unfair reporting last June 17 on a Supreme Court (SC) Justice’s alleged tantrums. In a pig’s eye CARTOONS HAVE been part of Philippine newspapers since the late Spanish era. They flourished in the reformist press during the propaganda and revolutionary period, and gained greater popularity during US colonization despite political constraints. Making sense of the numbers CHEERS TO the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) for its groundbreaking work in providing the public accessible information on government spending, campaign finance, and budget transparency. No sympathy for whistleblowers IN SPITE of the potentially big push they could give the effort against the perpetual plague of official corruption, whistleblowers don’t find any encouragement where it matters. For all its vociferous avowals on corruption, not even the present government is impressed. Mixed blessing THE PHILIPPINE blogging community is divided over whether to draft and/or adopt a code of ethical conduct that would govern online expression. As early as the onset of this century—before the advent of Facebook, Twitter, and other social media networks over the Internet—some bloggers were already saying that the... Party-list System: Quo Vadis? THE ISSUE needs some breathing space, much clearing of previously held notions and impressions. At the heart of the misunderstanding is the impression, mine included and also held by many, that the framers of the 1987 Constitution were incorporating the Party-list System into our electoral process primarily to benefit... 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. « Previous1…144145146147148…203Next »
