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Reports on PH-EU trade talks ignore concerns about human rights

JEERS TO several print media for failing to include the necessary perspective of human rights in reporting the resumption of free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations between the Philippines and... Read more

TV Patrol, Frontline reports on child’s killing fail to examine drug use, mental health, poverty

JEERS TO TV Patrol and Frontline Pilipinas for airing incomplete reports on a mother who allegedly killed her two-year-old son in Bacoor, Cavite. The reports focused on the alleged... Read more

Infant’s horrific death exposes media’s bias against people who use drugs

JEERS TO some primetime news broadcasts for airing incomplete reports on an infant’s death in Cainta, Rizal, that merely parroted claims by police sources and pursued the drug angle... Read more

Need for humaneness: GMA-7 airs insensitive, inaccurate report on tragedy and death

JEERS TO GMA-7’s Saksi and Unang Balita for airing inaccurate claims as it reported live a house on fire and the circumstances surrounding the death of its owner. These... Read more

Tactless media reports continue to reduce human life

JEERS TO some print and online media for treating a human tragedy as mere spectacle. Media failed to report suicide as a public health issue, and ignored guidelines for... Read more

Some media fail to provide background on new BIR Chief

JEERS TO news accounts that reported the appointment of Romeo Lumagui Jr. as the new Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) Commissioner last November 15 without any reference to the... Read more

ALLTV’s Marcos interview shows early signs of media cronyism

JEERS TO the September 13 interview with President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. of celebrity host and vlogger Toni Gonzaga-Soriano. It was an insult to the public, a PR piece... Read more

Reporting crime: Heart and ethical sensitivity needed

JEERS TO some Baguio-based news organizations, which sensationalized the killing of a woman by using photographs of her corpse from August 30 to September 7. Read more

Three newspapers insist on Bong Go spotlight

JEERS TO some print media’s relentless spotlighting of a senator who won his seat in 2019. Solely based on his proximity to the highest source of power and his... Read more

News5 interview with Aimee Marcos: Unmentioned family ties

ON JULY 4, News5 entertainment correspondent MJ Marfori reported on One Balita Pilipinas – a program of News5’s affiliate channel One PH – that she had done an exclusive... Read more