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  • PNoy’s thing with the media

    Yes, one isn’t quite sure yet what word it is to describe this strange weight that seems to bear down on President Benigno S. Aquino III's relationship with the... Read more

  • His kind of people

    THE PHILIPPINE Daily Inquirer described President Benigno S. Aquino III as "affable" during his speech at the 9th MediaNation "Summit" last Friday, November 23, in contrast to his "combative"... Read more

  • Predictably, hopelessly dead

    THE FREEDOM of Information bill has been passed over again. Colleagues flocked to the hearings on it in the current congress hoping this one, unlike the previous congresses, was... Read more

  • BAM goes the Freedom of Information bill!

    BATTERY, ASSAULT, and MURDER – this was what happened to the FOI bill today (Nov. 13) at the hearing of the Committee on Public Information of the House of... Read more

  • Non-Passage of the FOI Bill in the 15th Congress is Not Acceptable

    A little over three months ago, House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. uttered these words to summon his colleagues in the House of Representatives to work harder and faster on... Read more

  • Unabridgeable freedom

    TWO PROPOSED laws critical to news-media practice are up for consideration in the Senate: one advances the practice by decriminalizing libel, the other suppresses it by abridging the very... Read more

  • Unworthy

    NOT FOR his distinguished legislative record—he practically had none—was Benigno S. Aquino III elected to the Philippine Presidency in 2010, but for his presumed libertarian and human rights heritage. Benigno... Read more

  • Power vs freedom

    FREEDOM OF information, an issue that constitutes a critical test for any nation with any pretension to democracy, has hung unresolved hereabouts all these years. I’m not surprised really,... Read more

  • Martial Law in Philippine cyberspace

    Today, the resistance to the Cybercrime Prevention Act gains ground with the "Petition for Certiorari, Prohibition, and Injunction..." filed by media groups with the Supreme Court. The Center for... Read more

  • Why we need an FOI Act

    IN 2008, I wrote about PCIJ’s experience in accessing documents on projects funded with official development assistance. I was just in my second month on the job at the... Read more



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