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 Plight and neglect of health workers a continuing crisis JEERS TO the media for failing to include the context in reporting the delay of payments for medical frontliners, highlighted by the COA report released last week. News reports described the systemic failure as one of the deficiencies in the DOH’s management of its budget, without noting this as... Online media clarify COA’s mandate amid Duterte complaints CHEERS TO online media for reminding the public about the Commission on Audit’s (COA) role and mandate, and explaining why the President can’t order state auditors to stop reporting on problematic issues they find in the way government agencies use funds or report their expenses. This Week in Media (August 9 to 13, 2021) WITH THE worsening crisis of COVID-19, Filipinos heard loud and clear the global alarm over climate-related disaster. Media did not pick up as quickly on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report which warned of existential threats to a country surrounded all around with rising seas.  Inquirer.net connects Duterte threats to public panic CHEERS TO Inquirer.net for finding evidence that confirms how the president himself has contributed to public panic which led to the crowding in vaccine centers on August 5, the last day before ECQ in NCR. CMFR also cheers the Inquirer’s editorial on August 10 for its pointed analysis connecting... Funding problems take backseat in coverage of PH Olympic performance FILIPINO ATHLETES lifted the spirits of the whole nation as they brought home one gold, two silvers and one bronze from the Tokyo Olympics 2020, larger than the medal haul since the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 1932.. The Philippine delegation finished as the top performing Southeast Asian nation. Reporting IPCC findings: Online media sound the alarm on climate change in the PH for highlighting the alarm sounded by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and for reporting the precise significance of its findings for the Philippines. This Week in Media (AUGUST 2 to 6, 2021) THIS TIME last year, a broad alliance of medical professionals and healthcare workers had called for a “time-out” to give the overwhelmed healthcare system time to recover and to recalibrate anti-COVID strategies. From GCQ, the president approved a shift to MECQ for NCR and other areas for two weeks,... Third NCR ECQ: Media holds back on criticism of government unpreparedness JEERS TO the media for failing to question the government’s lack of preparedness in implementing the third enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in NCR plus during the pandemic. Having seen all the problems in 2020, media should have been ready to list the areas on which government should have been... This Week in Media (JULY 26 to 30, 2021) IT WOULD have been an entirely different week without the country’s first ever Olympic gold win by athlete Hidilyn Diaz. In a week darkened by storm clouds and drenched with rains from monsoon rains, President Duterte’s lengthy SONA alone would have moved Filipinos to copious tears. First Olympic Gold overshadows Duterte’s last SONA: Media stop the presses for Hidilyn Diaz HIDILYN DIAZ’S historic triumph in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics came just over an hour after President Rodrigo Duterte ended his two-hour and forty-five minute State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 26. News of Diaz’s win broke as the country’s broadsheets were about to put their front pages... « Previous1…5354555657…202Next »
