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The LP twerking scandal: Beyond the lewd and obvious

OTHER MEDIA organizations were quick to pick up the story when news broke about a group called Playgirls performing what many thought was a lewd show during the birthday... Read more

Distasteful—and exploitative

JEERS TO several media organizations for showing a video of women in scantily clad costumes dancing suggestively during a Liberal Party (LP) gathering and birthday celebration on October 1. Read more

Providing facts, challenging mistaken notions: Media and the commemoration of Martial Law

THERE CAN never be enough stories on martial law. Filipinos failed to form a Truth Commission as the South Africans did to establish consensus about the Apartheid. We have... Read more

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

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