24 Oras Archives | Page 18 of 21

Torre de Manila controversy: Lack of context reduces issue to photobombing

FOLLOWING THE issuance of a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) by the Supreme Court (SC) last June, the Torre de Manila controversy surged back into the media. The battle between... Read more

Closing the Pandora’s Box—A Difficult Task

PRESIDENT AQUINO finally gave closure to the Mamasapano incident’s “alternative truth,” a controversy which the President himself publicly raised when he announced the government was probing another version of... Read more

An Alternative Truth?

NEARLY EIGHT months after, the Mamasapano incident once again found its way into the headlines after President Benigno Aquino III announced during a “Meet the Inquirer Multimedia forum” on... Read more

Reporting the new EDSA traffic scheme:Doing a good job, so far

TO ADDRESS the continuing traffic woes in Metro Manila, Malacañang announced on September 1 that the Philippine National Police-Highway Patrol Group (PNP-HPG) will take over the enforcement of traffic... Read more

Reporting the Iglesia ni Cristo Mass Action: Leaving the public uninformed

MEMBERS OF the influential Iglesia ni Cristo (INC—literally, Christ’s Church) sect trooped to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Padre Faura street in Manila on August 27, protesting what... Read more

An incident becomes a war

IN THE afternoon of June 18, a group of University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman students armed with baseball bats and lead pipes attacked two others inside the campus.... Read more

Insensitive, inhumane

JEERS TO ABS-CBN 2 for its insensitive coverage of the plight of former child actor Jiro Manio who was found roaming the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3... Read more

Naming the victim

JEERS TO several media organizations for naming the 14-year-old boy who died in a hazing incident allegedly perpetuated by a gang in Bulacan province last June 23. Read more

Road safety for cyclists

CHEERS TO GMA-7’s 24 Oras and Balitanghali for going beyond the usual reporting on road accidents. Read more

Disrespecting the deceased

JEERS TO several media organizations for their gory reports on a crime involving a minor. Read more