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Covering the Pandemic

Covering the CoViD-19 Pandemic

Media Review

MEDIA DID note the anniversary of the first day of the lockdown in March last year. But reporters did not choose to spend time reviewing all the policy failures that doomed the government’s attempts to address COVID-19. The anniversary should have occasioned a review of how government dilly-dallied about...

Government incompetence responsible for delays in vaccine arrivals — media

CHEERS TO Inquirer and Rappler for not letting pass government’s excuse for the delay of the vaccine roll out which presidential spokesperson Harry Roque hyped as a fitting Valentine’s gift for Filipinos, scheduled as it was to arrive mid-February.

Rappler reviews evidence of police culpability in drug war killings

CHEERS TO Rappler’s investigative team for reviewing the drug war files and revealing government’s failure to hold police accountable for alleged cases of extrajudicial killings in their operations.

Cebu media take part in dubious police “rescue”

JEERS TO some Cebu-based journalists for joining the police team in the latter’s supposed “rescue” of young Lumad students from the Talamban campus of the University of San Carlos (USC). The result was uncritical coverage that was practically assured by the reporters’ accepting the police invitation for them to...

Media during the pandemic: Public scrutiny of PH vaccine plan needed

CMFR monitored the coverage of four primetime news programs (ABS-CBN 2’s TV Patrol, GMA-7’s 24 Oras, TV5’s Frontline Pilipinas, CNN Philippines’ News Night), six Manila-based broadsheets (Philippine Daily Inquirer, The Philippine Star, Manila Bulletin, Daily Tribune, The Manila Times, Manila Standard), the counterpart sites of these channels and broadsheets,...

Media check Duterte and allies’ push for Cha-cha

Now in his last year in office, President Duterte seems determined to push for Charter change with the intention of opening the economy to foreign investments and preventing certain organizations from getting into the House of Representatives through the party list system. Because of Duterte’s and his allies’...

Media indulge AFP red-tagging in the midst of the pandemic

NOT EVEN a raging pandemic has stopped the military’s red-tagging. Already severely challenged by the difficulties of remote teaching, the universities are being further targeted by the Duterte quasi-military regime.

Stonewalling DOJ’s drug war deaths report: Rappler sounds the alarm

IN THE fifth year of the Duterte presidency, media have reported less on the “war on drugs” even as drug-related killings continued. But Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra made headlines when he told reporters in a text message on January 11 that the DOJ had completed the initial report on...

Advertorials for mask product sideline public safety issue

JEERS TO Inquirer.net for running two advertorials about a face mask in the market whose effectivity in preventing COVID-19 transmission has been questioned by medical professionals. “CopperMask” has been endorsed by showbiz celebrities. Some government officials have also appeared in public wearing this mask, or promoted the product in...

Dacera case: Media echo, fail to check sloppy police work

IT HAD all the elements of the sensational. A young flight attendant had been found unconscious in a posh Makati hotel room on New Year’s Day. She was brought to the Makati Medical Center by her friends who were staying with her in the hotel. But Christine Dacera was...