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 Amid Resign Threats, Coma Allegations: Public Needs to Know About President’s Health Screengrab from Inquirer.net. PUBLIC SPECULATION on the president’s health intensified last month, when he was reported to have undergone a “routine check-up” before delivering his State of the Nation Address. As usual, the Palace denied all talk about Rodrigo Duterte suffering from any serious medical condition. On August 19,... Same Old, Same Old: Duterte Repeats Threat/Promise to Resign HE TALKED about it again! On August 14, 2018, speaking to businessmen in Malacañang, President Rodrigo Duterte broke off from his prepared text to say that he was thinking of resigning–but not without conditions. He recalled telling the military and the police that “I am thinking of stepping... Dengue After Dengvaxia: Media Focused on the Politics of it THE RAINY season is also dengue season in the Philippines. In 2017 alone, the Department of Health (DOH) recorded 131,827 dengue cases nationwide, of which 732 were fatal. Life-threatening dengue is a serious concern for everyone. A person can be infected several times, as four strains of the disease... Editorial Raises Issue of Police Accountability  Photo of Inquirer editorial. CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for its editorial that looked into police accountability in the death of a detainee. The August 12 editorial “Unremitting Impunity” critically examined the death of former Overseas Filipino Worker Allan Rafael, 35, who had been detained in the... Reporting the Strikes Over “Endo”: Missing the Major Issues THE SPATE of strikes by several labor unions in different companies has once more called attention to President Rodrigo Duterte’s promise to end labor contracting, or “endo” as it is popularly called. CMFR monitored the reporting of ABS-CBN television network’s TV Patrol, GMA-7’s 24 Oras, TV-5’s Aksyon, the... GMA News Probes Integrity of Evidence in Drug Ops CHEERS TO GMA News for a report that returned to a major aspect of police conduct in the government’s war on drugs. In a story that aired both on GMA-7’s 24 Oras and GMA News TV’s State of the Nation with Jessica Soho, reporter Mariz Umali looked into... A Misleading Headline about the National ID JEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for its misleading headline and report that gave the impression that enrolling in the Philippine ID system created by a recently passed law is voluntary. The Inquirer report, published in its print edition on August 9, carried the headline “National ID won’t... Flyby Chopper Mishap: More than just an Embarrassing Booboo! MEDIA CAPTURED the costly mishap involving a brand-new Philippine National Police  (PNP) helicopter on Wednesday, August 8. Flying low, the chopper whipped up enough wind to knock over an LED screen that had been set up to project visuals for the program, blowing away some tents during the... Batasan 4: Missing the Real Story REPORTING ON the arrest order for the “Batasan 4,” most media accounts did not seem to find anything strange or surprising about four public figures being hunted down as murderers by the police. These included three former government officials and one incumbent head of a national agency of... Staying Relevant: Sunday’s “Light and Easy” “LIGHT AND easy.” This was how the broadsheet Manila Bulletin described its weekly Sunday edition, which it launched on April 1. It flagged the new approach on a re-designed front page with a note:“Light, easy and inspiring – this is how we want your Sunday read to be.... « Previous1…8889909192…202Next »
