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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

Resigned or Fired? Uson Gets More Media Mileage

JEERS TO Inquirer.net for adding to the already excessive media attention on Mocha Uson with a single, anonymously-sourced story that President Rodrigo Duterte had fired her. The October... Read more

The Doctor is (Still) Out: Media on Duterte’s Health

WITHOUT MEDICAL bulletins issued by President Rodrigo Duterte’s physician/s, public speculation on the health of the chief executive will continue. The apparent confusion among his own officials and... Read more

Prison Congestion: Focus on Women Detainees

CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for calling attention to the plight of female detainees in the Quezon City Female Dormitory (QCFD). In June 2018, the Bureau of... Read more

Still on Trillanes Amnesty: Few Reports Questioned Court Ruling

MAKATI REGIONAL Trial Court (RTC) Branch 150 Judge Elmo Alameda on September 25 reopened the rebellion case against then Navy officer Antonio Trillanes IV that he had dismissed... Read more

Duterte’s EJK ‘Admission’: Media Yield to Palace Spin

PRESIDENT RODRIGO Duterte’s blasphemous, sexist, anti-poor tirades, including hate speech, have made enough headlines in the past to make such offensive outbursts almost a cliché. During the oath-taking... Read more

Following up on Ompong’s Destruction

POST-TYPHOON ‘OMPONG,’ the media scrambled to cover the provinces hit hardest by the disaster, reporting on casualties, damage to infrastructure and agriculture, as well as rescue and relief... Read more

A Closer Examination: Why the Deaths in Itogon?

CHEERS TO Rappler for its two-part story examining the Itogon community’s vulnerability and for exposing the weak law enforcement which were among the factors that led to the many... Read more

Remembering Martial Law: Media Repudiate Attempts to Revise History

THOUSANDS OF protesters from different groups and sectors gathered at Manila’s Luneta Park last September 21, united by the call “never forget, never again” to Martial Law.... Read more

Inflation Woes: Media Need to Ask More Questions

TYPHOON OMPONG (Mangkhut) ravaged provinces of the northern and central Luzon last September 15. The extensive damage to agriculture and fisheries is likely to raise even more the... Read more