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  • ‘Same old, same old’ in local races

    CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer and the Manila Bulletin for running a story on local candidates in the coming elections. Read more

  • Media took their accustomed paths in Poe citizenship coverage

    SENATOR AND presidential candidate Grace Poe’s citizenship has been under scrutiny for more than a month since 2013 senatorial candidate Rizalito David filed a disqualification case against her before... Read more

  • Party-list System: Quo Vadis?

    The issue needs some breathing space, much clearing of previously held notions and impressions. At the heart of the misunderstanding is the impression, mine included and also held by... Read more

  • More on 2013 Elections

    I think we have done it again, making bad out of something good. Automated elections were hailed the first time around, as the speed with which winners were proclaimed made... Read more

  • Facebook Face-off

    IT’S BEGINNING to look like a stretch, but assuming the integrity of the May 2013 mid-term exercise—meaning the votes cast were accurately counted by the Comelec’s problematic PCOS machines... Read more

  • Automation 2013: A Post-Mortem

    I went early on May 13 to cast my vote. The precinct was in much better state than what we found in 2010. It seemed as though the different... Read more

  • Election doldrums

    In a country where people have called themselves "election-crazy," we seem to have lost it. There is little visible excitement, and I do not think it has to do... Read more

  • Arroyo redux?

    IN 2010 the election to the Presidency of Benigno S. Aquino III seemed to herald, if not the coming of a free expression regime, at least the promise... Read more

  • Media organizations decry ‘right of reply’ rule

    Press freedom advocates and media organizations are asking the Philippine Commission on Elections (COMELEC) to reconsider a resolution it issued last January 16 in connection with the upcoming... Read more

  • Nuisance candidates all

    THE PHILIPPINE media were having a field day last week at the expense of the usual batch of so-called "nuisance candidates" for various posts including the Senate who, every... Read more



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