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Today, 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.

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Desecrated corpses


Cheers to Reporter’s Notebook for its Nov. 1 special report “Nilapastangang Bangkay (Desecrated Corpses)” that reported on how the dead are sometimes used to hold illegal gambling operations, among others.

Exam leak


Jeers to The Manila Times for its biased and unsubstantiated banner story on the alleged bar exams leakage.

On LPG taxis


Cheers to the Philippine Daily Inquirer for its series that looked at the alleged negative effects of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)-fueled taxis.

Puffery


Jeers to Manila Bulletin for a front-page report on the courtesy call of Gwendoline Ruais, Philippine representative to the Miss World pageant, on Vice President Jejomar Binay.

The November visit of Hillary ClintonAnother opportunity missed


The overnight visit of United States (US) Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last November received wide, though not necessarily meaningful coverage from the Philippine press. Among the television networks, GMA News TV devoted an hour of its regular programming to air a special forum with Clinton with journalists, students,...

Covering high profile crimesFocus on the sensational


The media coverage of the killing of Italian priest Fausto “Pops” Tentorio, Ramgen Bautista (former actor and son of former senator Ramon Revilla Sr.) and Ricky Pempengco (father of singer Charice) once more demonstrated the shallowness and bias for the sensational of the press when covering high-profile crimes.

Media at workBeating the war drums in Mindanao


ON Nov. 2, 2011, The Manila Times, the country’s oldest newspaper, came out with a banner story that outscooped everybody else. “Mindanao War Inevitable,” the headline screamed in big black type across the entire width of the newspaper. It was a startling, if not alarming, piece of prophetic journalism, especially since...

Media warmongeringPress calls for more violence in Mindanao


The coverage of the armed confrontation between government troops and members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Basilan, Zamboanga Sibugay, and Lanao del Norte reversed the gains of the Philippine press in reporting Mindanao.

Specious and Disingenuous (updated)


CMFR notes that Ms. Vitug’s attempt to get the side of UST and Corona, and her disclosing that she was either rebuffed or ignored, were both in keeping with journalistic ethics and protocol.

PJR Reports November-December 2011


SOME Filipino journalists can rank among the best in the world. Since the end of the martial law period the best investigative reports have not only looked into those issues that were a legacy of the culture of secrecy and those that had arisen in the difficult years that...

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