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 Misleading headlines are bad for the press and public JEERS TO GMA News Online for a misleading headline on a report that suggested that Rappler failed to show up at the Department of Justice (DOJ), as the report tracked the submission by Rappler’s lawyers, their counter affidavit to the tax evasion case filed by the Bureau of Internal... Context Missing: Reporting the PH-China Joint Exploration Proposal EVERYONE SHOULD know by now about President Rodrigo Duterte’s “pivot to China.” Media reports have quoted him as citing economic benefits from it, among them loans and partnerships mainly on infrastructure construction. The media have also reported that the Philippines won its case at the International Arbitral Tribunal which... Connecting Coverage of Economic Gains to the Poor THE WORLD Bank and the Asian Development Bank expects the Philippines to sustain the 6.7 to 6.9 percent gross domestic product (GDP) growth according to their 2018 economic updates. Both reports credited the sustained economic standing to the boost in investments from the Duterte administration’s nationwide infrastructure build up.... Plane-Spotting: Photos to Keep Tabs on China’s Incursion in PH Waters CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer and GMA-7 for keeping track of the continuing Chinese activity in the West Philippine Sea through photos (See: “Inquirer Photos Cannot Lie”). On April 18, the Inquirer reported that two Chinese military aircrafts have been photographed on Panganiban (Mischief) Reef, one of the... Kangaroo Court? Media Supports Attacks on Chief Justice on leave Chief Justice on leave Maria Lourdes Sereno during the Day of Valor event organized by the Movement Against Tyranny | Photo by Lito Ocampo NEVER MIND the exalted venue, nor the high status of the persons involved. Bickering is always interesting. Consider then how public attention was transfixed by... Premature release of Report on Dengvaxia: Media complies with political agenda Screengrab from Inquirer.net. THE POLICY controversy triggered by Dengvaxia continues to stir more political heat as news covered the release of a draft of the report prepared by the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee. Senator Richard Gordon, chairman of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee, called a press conference to present... Report on Loose Firearms in Lanao del Sur: Guns Trivialized and Moros Stereotyped Screengrab from Facebook page of Inquirer. JEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for a story which confined gun proliferation to Moros and a headline which trivialized the serious issue. The Inquirer published “Martial law disrupts Moro love affair with guns” on April 16, reporting on the disarmament campaign... Approval Ratings: More than just Numbers IN THE March 2018 SWS survey, the president retained his “very good” net satisfaction rating despite dipping two points from his December 2017 mark. Most news reports highlighted these numbers with little explanatory note, except that he still retains a high level of approval and satisfaction among Filipinos.... Media on Sereno’s Trials: Missing the Larger Crisis IN THE last month, the threat to remove Maria Lourdes Sereno as the Philippines’ Chief Justice of the Supreme Court stirred up even more controversy. On March 1, Sereno was forced to go on leave indefinitely in an obvious attempt to force her to resign. She did not.... Understanding K-12: Not Black or White THE K-12 program added 2 years to the basic education system, opening Senior High School (SHS). The Department of Education (DepEd) designed the SHS program to produce graduates better prepared for higher education. Without a college degree, these students should be ready for entrepreneurship or the job market.... « Previous1…9495969798…202Next »
