April 2015 monitor Archives - CMFR
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After Kidapawan: Media Look at Drought Mitigation Efforts
CHEERS TO BusinessMirror and Vera Files for running pieces that looked more closely at the El Niño weather phenomenon and government attempts to mitigate its impact in light... Read more
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Reporting the Kidapawan Clash: Lots of Questions
THE VIOLENCE that erupted in Kidapawan City, North Cotabato, on April 1, when police officers opened fire on protesting farmers and activists, is one of those events that... Read more
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Creating ‘news’
JEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for a banner story which erroneously declared Mary Jane Veloso, a migrant worker in death row in Indonesia, dead. Read more
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Looking into GOCC executives’ salaries and benefits
CHEERS to Network News of CNN Philippines for a report on the "hefty" salaries and benefits of executives of government-owned and -controlled corporations (GOCCs) three years after Republic Act... Read more
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Battle-weary victims ask: When will this stop?
CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for similarly reporting on the civilians displaced by conflict. Read more
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Inaccurate and uncorroborated
JEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for an inaccurate report full of misleading information on a study of the conflict in Mindanao (“World Bank: BBL can’t ensure peace, new... Read more
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A unity call for peace
CHEERS TO the Manila Bulletin for focusing on an underrepresented sector in the BBL discussions severely affected by the continuing clashes: the farmers in the region. Read more
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Another alarmist headline about Mindanao
JEERS TO the Manila Bulletin for its Feb. 28 banner headline that proclaimed that a “New Mindanao war begins”. Read more
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Reminding readers about road safety
CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for reminding its readers about the importance of road safety a year after a bus crash in Bontoc, Mountain Province that killed 15... Read more
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Unverified info from an anonymous source
JEERS TO The Manila Times for publishing an inaccurate report from, initially, an anonymous informant about the helicopters purchased by the Department of National Defense (DND). Read more