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 Suspicious JEERS To the Philippine Daily Inquirer for a practice that can only lead to readers’ suspecting that there’s a “special arrangement” between certain reporters and Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago. A series of stories involving the senator, because far from newsworthy, makes it seem that whatever she says... FOI and FOE in the campaign agenda Access to government-held information is the necessary condition for transparency in governance, and for empowering the citizenry to hold its elected officials to account. It is equally crucial to freedom of expression (FOE), the exercise of that right being premised on citizen possession, understanding, appreciation and utilization of... Part 1: The fate of print… I think I’m reconciled to the idea that I belong in the last generation of writers and readers on paper. Indeed, what I see is no mere generational gap, but a sea change, one simply too radical, too stark, too quick, too inexorable to allow for any sentimental hopes... Arroyo redux? IN 2010 the election to the Presidency of Benigno S. Aquino III seemed to herald, if not the coming of a free expression regime, at least the promise of one. It wasn’t only because Aquino had sworn during his campaign for the Presidency to support a freedom of... FOI for the Filipino people IT DOES not look like the Fifteenth Congress will be able to claim the honor of finally giving the Filipino people their Freedom of Information (FOI) law. FOI Timeline CHEERS TO InterAksyon.com for a story on President Benigno Aquino and his fading support for a Freedom of Information (FOI) bill. Probing report CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for focusing on an important issue in the policy debate on reproductive health (RH): Sen. Vicente “Tito” Sotto III’s use of fringe science in his speeches defending his anti-RH bill position. RH Act not covered as Health and Women’s Issue FROM NOVEMBER to December of last year, Republic Act 10354 (or the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012 which was signed into law last Dec. 21) was always in the news. However, the reports lacked in-depth coverage of the Act as a health and women’s issue. Propaganda or public information?The blocktiming landscape in Pampanga IN JULY 2012, Pampanga First District Representative Carmelo "Tarzan" Lazatin surprised his town mates when he turned his back from his known ally and friend Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan and decided to run for city mayor in the upcoming midterm elections. Being pro-active JOURNALISTS AND media advocacy groups have for years been urging a stop to the Philippine National Police and other government investigating bodies’ long-standing practice of presenting crime suspects to the media even before they have been charged, much less convicted. The January 25 order of Interior and Local Government... « Previous1…147148149150151…202Next »
