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 PJR Reports March – April 2011 || IN THIS ISSUE || Merci in Media What Fourth Estate? by Hector Bryant L. Macale with research from Venus Clarisse C. Tenorio and Ro Adrian Daniel E. Taningco Crisis in Japan Fomenting Panic by Kathryn Roja G. Raymundo Unrest in the Middle East and North Africa Focus on... Gossipy and trivial The media reports on the love life of President Benigno Aquino III are once again confirming the persistence of one of the worst habits of the Philippine press—its penchant for gossip and trivia. For instance, the Manila Bulletin underscored Aquino’s love life, heart breaks and active dating in a... Biased Jeers to The Manila Times for a biased Easter Sunday special issue highlighting only the Church position on the Reproductive Health (RH) bill. “Today, Easter Sunday, we purposely offer this special report on the proposed Reproductive Health bill,” the paper’s editor in chief wrote in the paper’s April 24... The Long Road to Justice By Mark Merueñas AS SOON as you enter the high-walled compound of the Quezon City Jail Annex in Taguig City where the Ampatuan multiple murder case is being heard, everyone becomes equal—well, almost. It doesn’t matter if you’re the justice secretary, the high-profile lawyer that defended a former president... Ethics, the Culture of Impunity, and Democracy by Luis V. Teodoro DELIVERED DURING THE NUJP FORUM COMMEMORATING WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY, MAY 3, 2011 LET ME start by quoting CMFR’s statement which we issued in commemoration of this year’s World Press Freedom Day: “The Philippine media situation has resisted change despite the change of administration in July 2010,” which in... When sources resent media by Marlon Alexander Luistro When disasters such as tsunamis, typhoons and earthquakes strike, people usually turn to the media for news and information. But who else will the people rely on for information in times of disasters if they have lost faith in the accuracy and truthfulness of the... Double jeers Double jeers to BusinessMirror for: 1) missing a cue from its infamous columnist and thereby failing to report the biggest story of the day today (April 29) and 2) continuing to have a public official write a column which she uses to attack her critics, in violation of the... Judging Willie By Luis V. Teodoro (“Vantage Point”, BusinessWorld, April 15-16, 2011) Former University of the Philippines law dean Raul Pangalangan says that the public call for an advertisers’ boycott of the TV5 program Willing Willie — and presumably some of the program’s sponsors’ withdrawing their ads — is “fraught with... Unrest in the Middle East and North Africa: Focus on reverse exodus by Martha A. Teodoro Political unrest broke out in one of the richest regions in the world as 2010 wound down. People from at least 15 countries in the Middle East and North Africa began taking to the streets in December to protest living conditions and their respective governments’... PJR Reports January – February 2011 || IN THIS ISSUE || The Vizconde Ruling Media Go Soft on Webb by Rupert Francis D. Mangilit with a report from Kathryn Roja G. Raymundo Covering Military Corruption Investigative and Explanatory Pieces Led the Way by Hector Bryant L. Macale Media Coverage of the Reyes Suicide Breaking All... « Previous1…160161162163164…202Next »
