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 Measuring poverty CHEERS TO GMA News for explaining how the government measures poverty incidence through food and nutrition requirements. Social change and the crisis of information INFORMATION IS what the Reproductive Health (RH) and Freedom of Information (FOI) bills are all about. The first would provide women with information on their own bodies—which for too many Filipinos apparently remains terra incognita even into their adulthood—and couples with the information they need that would enable them... Courtesy of the Brits: An Inquiry into the State of the Press Leave it to the Brits to respond to a crisis with gravitas. Perhaps, to a fault, as suggested by Alan Cowell in his column on Page Two of the International Herald Tribune (December 4, 2012) where he writes about the Leveson Inquiry, which looked into the state of the... Violence in Abra CHEERS TO Vera Files for a report on Abra's culture of violence, which intensifies during elections. Labor laws JEERS TO Malaya Business Insight for a one-sided and incomplete October 25, 2012 banner story on Philippine employment laws. The price of (limited) success EVERY PHILIPPINE President since Marcos has been critical of the press and has demanded that it behave in a manner acceptable to government. Marcos’ main complaint, as it was that of Corazon Aquino, Fidel Ramos, Joseph Estrada, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, and now of Benigno S. Aquino III, was the... An underhanded law THE PRESIDENT’S remark that proper news practitioners should have no reason to worry if the Right of Reply Law passes is not only patronizing but also inversely misleading. It is precisely the fair-minded and self-respecting, the rightly skeptical and dogged, among the journalists whom the law penalizes–those resistant to... PNoy’s thing with the media YES, ONE isn’t quite sure yet what word it is to describe this strange weight that seems to bear down on President Benigno S. Aquino III’s relationship with the press. Most journalists say that the President really has this thing about the press, adding quickly, he just doesn’t like... His kind of people THE PHILIPPINE Daily Inquirer described President Benigno S. Aquino III as “affable” during his speech at the 9th MediaNation “Summit” last Friday, November 23, in contrast to his “combative” stance in at least three events this year when he rebuked the media for their alleged inaccuracy, negativity, and focus... A tale of two massacres (Updated) EXACTLY THREE years ago today a convoy was hijacked in a town in Maguindanao province and forced off the road to a pre-dug mass grave about two kilometers away. That stopped a woman from filing for her husband a certificate of candidacy that would challenge the dynastic domination of... « Previous1…149150151152153…202Next »
