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 Not a Gay Affair A columnist bashes homosexuals and gets a backlash Not a Gay Affair By Venus L. Elumbre and Don Gil K. Carreon FACT: A person has the right to throw his fist around. Question: Does this right end where another personâs nose begins? On Aug. 12, a column by retired... âhate speechâ, Minding the language Advanced democracies outlaw âhate speechâ Hate speechâ was among the descriptions given by complainants to the opinion column written by former Justice Isagani Cruz for the Philippine Daily Inquirer on Aug. 12. Defined as speech intended to degrade, intimidate, or incite violence or prejudicial action against certain social groupings,... Lessons from The Frontlines On Building Credible Media Lessons from The Frontlines By Eugenia Duran Apostol 2006 Magsaysay Awardee for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts In the 1880s, during Plaridelâs time, the Filipino was suffering from being subject to our Spanish colonizers. Today, after having gone through American and Japanese colonizers, we are free. But... Monitors Gloriaâs pie in the sky Media were quick to spot the problem of funding of the infrastructure projects ticked off by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in her State of the Nation Address (Sona) last July 24. On the day of the Sona itself, Bandila asked the Presidentâs economic managers... Monitors: Online Who they are The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) helped readers know more about the members of the Melo commission, which was commissioned by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to probe into the killings of journalists and activists. In an Aug. 24 post in its blog, PCIJ provided background... Rallying Behind Bandila ABS-CBN performs âact of leadershipââbut whoâs following? Rallying Behind Bandila By Hector Bryant L. Macale It promised leadership. When ABS-CBN announced it was reformatting its late night news, viewers sat up in attention. The network said more: it was moving the news to an earlier time slot. At 10:30... Monitors: TV Jailhouses donât rock Stories on crime and criminals need not be confined to slapping scenes at the police station. Thankfully, 24 Oras knows that. Veering away from the usual police stories, the TV program reported on Aug. 16 on the plight of inmates in the Pasig City jails. It... Monitors: Print Jueteng blues In its report on Aug. 12 (âPNP now controls juetengâ), Malaya let out a mouthful about the Philippine National Police (PNP). Relying on interviews with Lingayen-Dagupan Bishop Oscar Cruz and Boy Mayor, the Senate witness and self-confessed jueteng operator, the Malaya report said PNP provincial directors have... Speaking of Media On (not quite) giving up⊠or something âIt started with an e-mail sent by Jim Paredes to his large network of relatives and friends. It concerned the Philippine Daily Inquirerâs front page on him last Saturday headlined âFinally, APOâs Jim Paredes gives up on RPâ and by-lined Gerry Lirio.... Editor’s Note: Where Time has Stopped For some time now, the mantra of the disillusioned among the supporters of People Power has been: âItâs now x years since Edsa 1 (or 2) and we still have this problem.â Well, here comes another variant: It is now 20 years after the ouster of the dictator and... « Previous1…189190191192193…201Next »
