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Distasteful—and exploitative

JEERS TO several media organizations for showing a video of women in scantily clad costumes dancing suggestively during a Liberal Party (LP) gathering and birthday celebration on October 1. Read more

Gore on the front page

JEERS TO The Philippine Star for publishing on its front page a graphic photo of the 2006 killing of an Abra congressman. Read more

Demeaning—again

JEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer and The Philippine Star for using as banner photo, a picture of Miss World Philippines candidates in their bikinis. Read more

Lumad killings: Who’s responsible?

THE KILLING of two Lumad leaders and an educator in Surigao del Sur on September 1 has brought to public attention accusations of human rights violations and harassments allegedly... Read more

Setting the entertainment agenda

IN A previous monitor (“Entertainment trivia on the front pages”) posted September 16, the Center for Media Freedom & Responsibility (CMFR) noted the importance given by newspapers to the... Read more

Providing facts, challenging mistaken notions: Media and the commemoration of Martial Law

THERE CAN never be enough stories on martial law. Filipinos failed to form a Truth Commission as the South Africans did to establish consensus about the Apartheid. We have... Read more

Torre de Manila controversy: Lack of context reduces issue to photobombing

FOLLOWING THE issuance of a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) by the Supreme Court (SC) last June, the Torre de Manila controversy surged back into the media. The battle between... Read more

Newsroom oversight?

JEERS TO ABS-CBNnews.com for a false report on the reaction of University of the Philippines in Los Baños (UPLB) students to Vice President Jejomar Binay’s September 15, 2015 ... Read more

Closing the Pandora’s Box—A Difficult Task

PRESIDENT AQUINO finally gave closure to the Mamasapano incident’s “alternative truth,” a controversy which the President himself publicly raised when he announced the government was probing another version of... Read more

An Alternative Truth?

NEARLY EIGHT months after, the Mamasapano incident once again found its way into the headlines after President Benigno Aquino III announced during a “Meet the Inquirer Multimedia forum” on... Read more