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Covering the Pandemic

Covering the CoViD-19 Pandemic

The Silent Media

Native Advertising: Not just a Problem of One

Improving coverage by the public/current affairs programs

The Philippine media covered election-related events and personalities aggressively during the campaign season. News media organizations such as ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp. (ABS-CBN 2 and ABS-CBN News Channel) and GMA Network Inc. (GMA-7 and sister-station QTV 11) pooled together their resources in partnership with other groups to provide what was...

Mudslinging among candidates boosts media coverage

CENTER FOR MEDIA FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY TIMEKEEPING REPORT FOR THE PERIOD MARCH 29-31 AND APRIL 5-9 The media play a crucial role in the democratic life of the country. This is especially evident during election periods. The media are the people’s main source of information on electoral issues, the...

TV Patrol World, 24 Oras election coverage still generally neutral; Teledyaryo continues bias for Teodoro

The CMFR Monitor of Media Coverage of the 2010 Elections Broadcast Discourse Analysis (For the period March 29-31 and April 5-9, 2010) For this period, the broadcast discourse analysis monitoring team of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) analyzed only eight days of news coverage (instead of...

Pols circumvent 120-minute political ad limit

THE CMFR MONITOR OF MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE 2010 ELECTIONS POLITICAL ADS IN BROADCASTING AND PRINT (For the Period March 14 – 27) Less than two months after the official campaign period for national elections started, AGB Nielsen, in partnership with the non-governmental organization Pera’t Pulitika, released a study...

Moneyed candidates still getting the most airtime; Gov’t network still biased for admin candidates; Gov’t network still biased for admin candidates

Same old, same old Moneyed candidates still getting the most airtime; Gov’t network still biased for admin candidates BROADCAST TIMEKEEPING REPORT FOR THE PERIOD MARCH 15-26, 2010 No significant changes were evident in the way the three primetime news programs – NBN’s Teledyaryo, GMA 7’s 24 Oras, and ABS-CBN’s...

Going the extra mile: Will media efforts pay off?

Published in the March-April 2010 issue of the PJR Reports by Hector Bryant L. Macale Although there is still room for improvement, the press has clearly shown a determined emphasis to cover this year’s elections. In the past few months, these efforts can be seen in the in-depth stories,...

A problematic exercise: Election uncertainties dominate news themes

Published in the March-April 2010 issue of PJR Reports. In a major indication of how problematic the 2010 elections are regarded by both the press and the public, the uncertainties surrounding the exercise dominated the major themes of reporting in the fourth and fifth week (Feb. 28- March 13)...

What’s On Your TV? Election worries, Noynoy, Manny, Gibo, and not much else

Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility Broadcast Timekeeping Analysis April 12-23, 2010 As the country’s first ever automated elections looms on the horizon, the media’s role becomes crucial in shaping the nature of the discussions and debates among the people who will troop to the polling places and cast...

Teledyaryo gives mostly negative coverage to Aquino: Gov’t TV shows bias for Teodoro, Lakas-Kampi

The CMFR Monitor of Media Coverage of the 2010 Elections BROADCAST DISCOURSE ANALYSIS (For the period March 15-19 and 22-26, 2010) Introduction The election coverage by TV Patrol World (ABS-CBN 2), 24 Oras (GMA-7) and Teledyaryo (NBN-4) from March 15 to 19 and March 22 to 26 was generally...

A problematic exercise: Election uncertainties dominate news themes in print

The CMFR Monitor of Media Coverage of the 2010 Elections Discourse Analysis: Print (For the period February 28 -March 13, 2010) Scope For the print media coverage of the fourth and fifth week of the 2010 elections, the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) monitored the front pages...