Some lessons and reminders: How the press covered the 2010 campaign and elections
Given the particularities of the May 2010 elections, media coverage of the election campaign itself needed, and promised to be, many things: it needed to be thorough as well as pro-active, and focused on the issues but rigorously aware of the context—the larger picture—in which the campaign would proceed.
Here’s the report of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) on its Monitor of the News Media Coverage of the 2010 Campaign and Elections. The CMFR report offers lessons and reminders for the press in covering this year’s campaign and elections.
The CMFR Monitor of the News Media Coverage of the 2010 Campaign and Elections by cmfrphilippines