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Blown out of proportion

The incident involving celebrity-host Vhong Navarro gained massive media coverage which highlighted some failures of the press and raised questions on media coverage, news priorities, context and media perspective... Read more

Navarro, Navarro, and more Navarro

JEERS TO TV Patrol and 24 Oras for allotting a large percentage of air time to the incident involving celebrity-host Vhong Navarro, and failing to provide reports on key... Read more

Beyond the numbers

CHEERS TO GMA-7’s 24 Oras, Solar TV’s Solar Network News, and Rappler for providing a more in-depth coverage on the magnitude 7.2 earthquake that struck Central Visayas last October... Read more

Evaluating the programs of the Aquino gov’t

CHEERS TO ABS-CBN Corporation and GMA Network for keeping tabs on the performance of President Benigno S. Aquino III based on his campaign and inaugural promises as well as... Read more

Prioritizing basketball

JEERS TO TV Patrol for devoting a third of its air time to reports on the National Basketball Association (NBA) Finals last June 21 to the exclusion of other,... Read more

Discouraging Suicide: The Media’s Responsibility

JEERS TO THE ABS-CBN, GMA7, Solar TV, TV5, and the Manila Bulletin for their careless reporting of a suicide at the Metro Rail Transit Guadalupe station last May 8. Read more

Understanding pork barrel politics

CHEERS TO GMA News and Public Affairs, Special Assignments Team, and News Research for its investigative series explaining what the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), also known as pork... Read more

Tulfo covers Tulfo

THE AIRPORT brawl between columnist Ramon Tulfo and celebrity couple Raymart Santiago and Claudine Barretto last May 6 at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3 quickly became... Read more

Wasted airtime

Jeers to 24 Oras for failing to provide background and context to a report on Joseph Estrada’s birthday party and future political plans. Read more

When too much is too muchDevoting 50 percent of airtime to one story was excessive

“Excessive” was the fitting description of the amount of television airtime given Miss Philippines Shamcey Supsup’s candidacy in this year’s Miss Universe beauty pageant last Sept. 13. It was... Read more