Issues Archives - CMFR

We will not surrender our freedoms

Today, 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.

Covering the Pandemic

Covering the CoViD-19 Pandemic

The Silent Media

Native Advertising: Not just a Problem of One

Revisiting the Party-List System (and What the Media Missed)

Published on May-June Issue of the PJR Reports By John Reiner M. Antiquerra and Rupert Francis D. Mangilit An April 2010 report from Pulse Asia said that nearly half of the Filipino electorate would be going to the polling precincts unaware of the party-list system. But the media still...

The 2010 Elections: Problems, Problems

No one would disagree that the 2010 elections are the most problematic in recent history. As election day approaches, the challenge to journalists is to be vigilant and critical in monitoring the country’s preparations for the planned nationwide automated system that will be inaugurated in May. According to the...

Media and Elections

Last Jan. 16, the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) invited journalists and representatives of civil society organizations in a roundtable discussion to review CMFR’s conclusions and recommendations in its media monitoring project in the 2007 elections. At the roundtable discussion, CMFR executive director Melinda Quintos also presented...

Media and Civil Society in May 2010

There is no better time than an election year to engage the public in discussing and addressing issues that affect their lives. The Philippines is a democratic society. The people enjoy a number of freedoms. Elections as the first procedural requirement of democracy have been held regularly. But so...

Statement to the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas – Blocktimers During the Campaign Period and Elections

The statement below was drafted after print, broadcast, and electronic journalists attending a roundtable on the media coverage of elections organized by the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) last Jan. 16 expressed concern over the impact of political blocktimers on the coming elections and on the integrity...

Media and 2010 Elections: Focus on blocktimers

As the 2010 elections draw near, journalists have urged the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP) to look into radio blocktimers, particularly those funded by political candidates and government agencies. Blocktimers are individuals who buy blocks of radio time for programs which they then market to various advertisers...

2010 Elections: Same old, same old, but not quite

As in the 2004 and 2007 elections, corruption, governance, and human rights issues should be among the lead issues in the 2010 elections. But some things make this year’s polls different from the previous elections.