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  • Image-making or information?

    AMONG PUBLIC officials as well as those other individuals whose jobs and functions in society put them in the public eye, how they are perceived by others, as dictated... Read more

  • Media’s bad news

    A FREEDOM of Information (FOI) bill, this time drafted by the Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition, was filed through indirect initiative before the House of Representatives last July... Read more

  • Our dream, our rightPass the People’s FOI Act now!

    Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition statement. Read more

  • Rocky road

    IN WHAT could be an attempt to preempt a Supreme Court decision on the unconstitutionality of the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 (RA 10175), the Department of Justice (DOJ)... Read more

  • “Making” democracy

    THE CLAIM that free expression is not absolute falls regularly from the lips of people who’re basically hostile to it, among them certain members of the 15th Congress who... Read more

  • “Making” democracy

    THE CLAIM that free expression is not absolute falls regularly from the lips of people who’re basically hostile to it, among them certain members of the 15th Congress who... Read more

  • The hijacking of press freedom

    THANKS TO technology, press freedom is looking less and less like anything it’s been intended. Indeed, press freedom has been hijacked, to the extent that it now belongs more to... Read more

  • Coalitions wanted

    Non-governmental organizations, or NGOs, have been recognized in the laws of many states as expressions of the right to association, but have also come about because of the political... Read more

  • Libel – a Sword of Damocles

    HERE ARE more excerpts from of the Q&A’s I’ve been having with students doing papers and theses on the news practice: Q. How do you think libel is abused in... Read more

  • Challenge to the dominant press

    THE PHILIPPINES has a long alternative press tradition that goes back to the reform and revolutionary movements of the late 19th century—from Marcelo H. Del Pilar’s Diariong Tagalog, to... Read more



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