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 Chronicle Moro Times launched A monthly supplement devoted to topics on development, peace, business opportunities, and other national issues affecting Mindanao was launched by The Manila Times on July 18. Named Moro Times, the supplement comes out every last Friday of the month. The project was created with the support... Crisis: International Tamil editor shot dead A Tamil newspaper editor was killed outside his home on the besieged Jaffna Peninsula on Aug. 20, international and local media reported. Sinnathamby Sivamaharajah, managing director of the Tamil-language Namathu Eelanadu newspaper, was shot dead in the town of Vellippalai. The motive for the killing... Crisis: National Reporter escapes kidnap try A correspondent of tabloid Police Files Tonite was nearly abducted while waiting for a ride home in Calamba, Laguna. According to police reports, Dick Garay tried to push him into a van on the evening of Aug. 15. But Garay resisted and managed to run... Getting lost in the footsteps of Bin Laden CNN international correspondent Christiane Amanpourâs much-heralded documentary, âIn the Footsteps of bin Laden,â sought to show the world the social forces that shaped the life of the âmost feared terrorist of our time.â This two-hour documentary con-sisted of interviews with people who had met Osama bin Laden at least... REVIEW: The Lebanon-Israeli war through the eyes of CNN and BBC REVIEW: The Lebanon-Israeli war through the eyes of CNN and BBC Demonizing the âenemyâ By Jamal Ashley Abbas IN MANY WAYS, the just-concluded Israel-Lebanon war was unique. It was the first war directly covered by different TV networks on the ground. While the combatantsâthe Israeli armed forces and the... Embedded Bias Unbeknownst to many readers, media portray bias in conflict stories by using the following devices: ⢠Excising, which means portraying a conflict without showing the other side, or by ignoring or even obscuring it. The enemy is absent and only symbolized. ⢠Sanitizing, which means understating the violence or... Covering conflict in Mindanao: Terror and the Press Covering conflict in Mindanao Terror and the Press By Crysta Imperial Rara MINDANAO SEEMS to be the focus of many foreign-funded development projects nowadays. Whether itâs micro-financing, governance, the peace process, and even press coverage, foreign govern-ments, institutions, and universities seem to have a preference for initiatives that target... Censoring Documentaries TV current affairs programs under the glare of the MTRCB Censoring Documentaries By Nathan Lee Ten years ago, censorship was a problem that bedeviled films. Today, censorship is still a problem and its exercise has come to include television documentaries. In the past few months, four current affairs programs... MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO. 108 MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO. 108 Guidelines on Appearances of Department Heads and other officials of the executive department before Congress. WHEREAS, the principle of separation of powers between the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of government is enshrined in the Constitution; WHEREAS, the Constitution establishes crucial safeguards regarding the power... Keeping Secrets How govât routinely violates the publicâs right to information Keeping Secrets By Yvonne T. Chua AT THE start of the Arroyo presidency, the Philippines was being held up as among the most open democracies in Southeast Asia. Thanks to the 1987 Constitution guaranteeing Filipinos the right to information on... « Previous1…188189190191192…201Next »
