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 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.... Proposed Joint PH-China Oil and Gas Exploration: Where’s the Framework? BEFORE LEAVING for the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting in Singapore, Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said in a July 31 press briefing that the Philippine government offered to China a “starting proposition” of a 60-40 profit-sharing scheme in the joint oil and gas exploration of the West Philippine... Furthering a Hidden Agenda? HAVING BARELY survived past controversies, former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who’s been a member of the House of Representatives since 2010, is now Speaker of the House. But from her take-over of that post during the president’s State of the Nation Address to the three-way minority war that ensued,... House Shakeup: Media Misses Meaning of Minority Power WHO IS the real minority? Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s installation as House Speaker on July 23 saw her long time supporters appointed quickly to key positions: Rep. Rolando Andaya Jr. (1st district, Camarines Sur) as the new majority leader, Romeo Prestoza, former head of Presidential Security Group as sergeant-at-arms... Eagle Eyes on Arroyo’s Return to Power IN A running commentary of the SONA event, a news anchor let slip her view of the change of leadership in the House of Representatives, saying it was a vindication of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, as cameras dutifully focused on the subject. On the same night in social media,... Duterte’s Health: Few Media Point Out Public’s Right to Know LATE ON July 22, the eve of President Duterte’s State of the Nation Address (SONA), news online reported that the president had gone to Cardinal Santos Medical Center in San Juan City, citing Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque as source. Roque said it was a “routine” check-up which took... TV Attention Wanders from SONA # 3 THE THIRD State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, July 23, may have been a first for the president because it was relatively short and expletive-free. But whatever positive impact it had was lost in the melee, as partisans battled for the speakership... BOL in the News: Coverage Stuck on the Event, a Matter of Procedure (Updated) ON THE evening of July 18, the bicameral conference committee approved the reconciled version of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) after addressing the different contentious provisions of House Bill 6475 and Senate Bill 1717. The historic passage came a year and a day after the 21-member Bangsamoro Transition Commission... What to Make of the People’s Initiative on No-EL HE MAY seem to be the lone voice pushing for the postponement of the midterm elections, but House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez may be getting some other signal from his political bosses, as the latest statement from Malacañang suggests official acceptance of a “people’s initiative.” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque... « Previous1…8990919293…202Next »
