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 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... Reading habit CHEERS TO GMA News TV’s State of the Nation with Jessica Soho for a feature report last Jan. 15 on the reading habits of Filipinos and promoting reading among its viewers. Explanation please JEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for not explaining a legal term it used in its Oct. 23 report. Media Damnation (updated) THE PHILIPPINE news media have a problem: how to make what’s turning into one of the most boring elections in Philippine history interesting as well as meaningful to a weary electorate that this early is already demonstrating that it will elect senators this May on the sole basis of... Supreme Court discourse on Cybercrime Law I THINK the online community in the Philippines should take some time to listen in on the presentation of the oral arguments in the Supreme Court against the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012. It is not easy listening. Not all of it is riveting or compelling. But the opportunity... Free TV, the tabloids and elections THE PHILIPPINE media have often been accused of bias in the coverage of elections. But inadequacy rather than partiality has been their more telling flaw. « Previous1…147148149150151…202Next »
