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 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. The year that was in the news media PRESIDENT BENIGNO S. Aquino III was exceptionally critical of the press in 2012, among his complaints being inaccuracy and its alleged focus on the bad news that he said discouraged tourism and foreign investments. Gay kidnapper JEERS TO TV Patrol for unnecessarily emphasizing the alleged sexual orientation of a kidnapping suspect in a Nov. 28 report. Political dynasties CHEERS TO ABS-CBN’s Failon Ngayon and Solar News for providing in-depth reports on political dynasties. Gunmen in the news SUCH A terrible subject for this blog to take up at the start of the year! Of course, there are other issues—but this one has taken hold of the mind and the mood, as only senseless killing does, as only the deaths of children can do. Before interest in... Labor laws JEERS TO Malaya Business Insight for a one-sided and incomplete Oct. 25, 2012 banner story on Philippine employment laws. « Previous1…148149150151152…202Next »
