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 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... Correction please, Mr. President! — Media CHEERS TO Philstar.com, Rappler, and VERA Files for fact-checking and providing context as they live-tweeted President Duterte’s last State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 26, when most of media simply carried the livestream. CMFR also cheers media... This Week in Media (July 19 to 23, 2021) FEW WOULD claim that pre-campaign politics or Rodrigo Duterte’s coming State of the Nation Address could compete in terms of relevance with the news of local cases of an even deadlier strain of COVID-19. But all three nevertheless got their share of the biggest news headlines and primetime TV... This Week in Media (July 12 to 16, 2021) DESPITE A clearly defined campaign period, Filipino politicians probably enjoy one of the longest campaign periods in the world. Without clearly set primaries and caucuses which help track the progressive build-up of a candidate’s bid for public office, politicians feel free to promote themselves through all kinds of... Premature campaigning via media: Spotlight on incumbents gives them pre-campaign boost OVER TWO whole months before the filing of certificates of candidacy for the 2022 elections, some politicians are already going to great lengths to keep their names in the media. Beyond ‘he said, she said’: Inquirer and InterAksyon find more proof of crisis in PH education CHEERS TO Inquirer.net and InterAksyon for citing other studies to back up evidence already presented by the World Bank in its critical assessment of the state of PH education. This Week in Media The eruption of Taal volcano on July 1 cast the public in deeper gloom; but did not displace COVID-19 as the nation’s paramount fear or concern. But it did add to the continuing tension even as President Duterte resorted to levity, betraying his lack of awareness of how... « Previous1…5556575859…204Next »
