DILG Archives | CMFR
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Selfies with Alice Guo: Media ok with highly irregular arrest
WHEN NEWS broke that Indonesian law enforcement apprehended dismissed Bamban Mayor in Tangerang City on September 4, media reported that Benhur Abalos, Interior Secretary, and General Rommel Marbil, chief... Read more
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From the Newsrooms: May 12 to 18, 2024
WHO IS Alice Guo? The question remains unanswered even as the media grapple with information about the identity and citizenship of the woman who was elected as mayor of... Read more
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This Week in Media (October 17 to 21, 2022)
ON OCTOBER 3, radio broadcaster Percy Lapid was gunned down in Las Piñas City. Lapid is the second journalist to be killed under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s watch, his... Read more
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On the supposed gains of Duterte’s “war on drugs”: Did bloody policy bring down crime rate?
IT SEEMED like a small matter, another one of those moments when a politician or public official let slip a thought that perhaps was best left unsaid. But CMFR... Read more
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Reckless and Heartless
THE COLLAPSE of the peace talks between the government and the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) in 2017 left President Duterte with nothing to... Read more
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Losing the right to know and other perils from vaccine brand non-disclosure
JEERS TO the media for letting public officials dominate the conversation on the DOH and DILG directive prohibiting the LGUs from announcing the vaccine brands available at inoculation centers.... Read more
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Reduced physical distancing: Another flawed policy from the IATF
THE PROPOSAL to gradually reduce physical distancing in public transport served to demonstrate once again the flawed policy-making process that has marred the IATF’s response to the pandemic. In... Read more
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Inquirer blasts DILG drive for charter change amid pandemic
PUBLIC OPINION polls have again and again found that federalism and Charter change (Cha-cha) are not priority issues for Filipinos. The shift to federalism was among President Rodrigo Duterte’s... Read more
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Student journalist harassed in Nueva Ecija
CMFR/PHILIPPINES — A student journalist was forced by barangay officials in Nueva Ecija on 6 April 2020 to publicly apologize after a heated exchange with his former teachers in... Read more
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PH Strategy on COVID-19
IN ANY crisis, governments anywhere bear the fundamental responsibility to provide for public needs, and to calm an anxious public with clear and factual information. In the midst of... Read more