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Quoting Quiboloy: What’s the point?

WHY WASTE the news? Jeers to several media organizations for paying attention to an absurd claim of a founder and leader of a religious group who said that he... Read more

Not newsworthy: Duterte’s slur against Rappler journalists

THREE YEARS into his term, President Rodrigo Duterte’s tirades against his critics and the independent press have become predictable and pointless. They don’t contribute to public understanding of the... Read more

GMA News Online sheds light on farmers’ plight

ANY COUNTRY’S food security primarily depends on its farmers. But in the predominantly agricultural country that is the Philippines, they ironically receive little or no attention. Media stories on... Read more

Online News Site Looks Into “Favored Contractor” Background

CHEERS TO GMA News Online for its efforts to look more closely into the government dealings of Bulacan-based C.T. Leoncio Construction and Trading, which some congressmen said has been... Read more

Third Telco Race: Not Much Said About the China Connection

Photo from the Department of Information and Communications Technology Facebook page ON NOVEMBER 7, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) declared the Mislatel consortium the provisional new major player... Read more

Sidebar | The Magnetic Lifters: Recalling Critical Details

Read article: The Drugs That Got Away: Questions Linger on Multibillion-Peso Drug Shipment Photo from the PDEA Top Stories Facebook page. THE USE of magnetic lifters to smuggle narcotics... Read more

Arroyo Draft Charter: Removal of VP from Succession Escapes Media Attention

ONLY A month after she told the media that the House of Representatives doesn’t have enough time to discuss charter change, Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and 21 lawmakers... Read more

Eyes Wide Open While Some Media Turn a Blind Eye to Marcos History

THE GOVERNMENT raised by People Power in 1986 set as one of its goals the recovery of national wealth plundered by Ferdinand Marcos, estimated in the billions. To... Read more

Misleading headlines are bad for the press and public

JEERS TO GMA News Online for a misleading headline on a report that suggested that Rappler failed to show up at the Department of Justice (DOJ), as the report... Read more

Drug Raps against Espinosa et al Dropped: Everyone Caught by Surprise

OBVIOUSLY, INSIDERS in the Department of Justice (DOJ) were not happy about setting free well known drug personalities who had figured prominently in the government’s war against drugs.... Read more