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“Red October” Plot: Some Journalists Asked the Hard Questions

THERE WAS not much revealed during the president’s so-called “tete-a-tete” with his chief legal counsel, Sal Panelo, on September 11, including the president saying there was a plot to... Read more

Duterte’s EJK ‘Admission’: Media Yield to Palace Spin

PRESIDENT RODRIGO Duterte’s blasphemous, sexist, anti-poor tirades, including hate speech, have made enough headlines in the past to make such offensive outbursts almost a cliché. During the oath-taking... Read more

Following up on Ompong’s Destruction

POST-TYPHOON ‘OMPONG,’ the media scrambled to cover the provinces hit hardest by the disaster, reporting on casualties, damage to infrastructure and agriculture, as well as rescue and relief... Read more

Inflation Woes: Media Need to Ask More Questions

TYPHOON OMPONG (Mangkhut) ravaged provinces of the northern and central Luzon last September 15. The extensive damage to agriculture and fisheries is likely to raise even more the... Read more

“Ompong” Coverage: OK But Could Have Been Better

TYPHOON OMPONG (Mangkhut) was the 15th and so far the strongest typhoon to smash into the Philippines this year, and even as it approached had invited comparisons with... Read more

Only One Big Story at a Time?

ISSUES AND events which deserve attention are often sidelined when a big story breaks and continues to develop. But in this age of multiple media platforms and formats... Read more

PH Withdrawal from ICC: Other Issues Distract Media from Oral Arguments

WITH SO many other issues in the news, the media has not kept track of the case filed in the Supreme Court (SC), which relates to the killing of... Read more

Sultan Kudarat Blasts: In-depth Reports Needed

AN IMPROVISED explosive device (IED) went off in a night market in Isulan, Sultan Kudarat on Tuesday, August 28, killing three persons and injuring more than 30 others. The... Read more

Ampatuan Wedding Furlough: Just Another Social Event?

SHAME ON media organizations that seem to have forgotten the wholesale murder of their own brothers and sisters in the journalism profession and failed to report how a... Read more

Forty-one Days as Chief Justice: A New Norm

THE FALLOUT from the Supreme Court’s (SC) ouster of former Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno last June is continuing. On Saturday, August 25, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra announced... Read more