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Same Old, Same Old: Duterte Repeats Threat/Promise to Resign

HE TALKED about it again! On August 14, 2018, speaking to businessmen in Malacañang, President Rodrigo Duterte broke off from his prepared text to say that he was... Read more

Dengue After Dengvaxia: Media Focused on the Politics of it

THE RAINY season is also dengue season in the Philippines. In 2017 alone, the Department of Health (DOH) recorded 131,827 dengue cases nationwide, of which 732 were fatal. Life-threatening... Read more

Editorial Raises Issue of Police Accountability

Photo of Inquirer editorial. CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for its editorial that looked into police accountability in the death of a detainee. The August 12 editorial... Read more

Reporting the Strikes Over “Endo”: Missing the Major Issues

THE SPATE of strikes by several labor unions in different companies has once more called attention to President Rodrigo Duterte’s promise to end labor contracting, or “endo” as... Read more

GMA News Probes Integrity of Evidence in Drug Ops

CHEERS TO GMA News for a report that returned to a major aspect of police conduct in the government’s war on drugs. In a story that aired both... Read more

A Misleading Headline about the National ID

JEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for its misleading headline and report that gave the impression that enrolling in the Philippine ID system created by a recently passed... Read more

Flyby Chopper Mishap: More than just an Embarrassing Booboo!

MEDIA CAPTURED the costly mishap involving a brand-new Philippine National Police (PNP) helicopter on Wednesday, August 8. Flying low, the chopper whipped up enough wind to knock over... Read more

Batasan 4: Missing the Real Story

REPORTING ON the arrest order for the “Batasan 4,” most media accounts did not seem to find anything strange or surprising about four public figures being hunted down... Read more

Staying Relevant: Sunday’s “Light and Easy”

“LIGHT AND easy.” This was how the broadsheet Manila Bulletin described its weekly Sunday edition, which it launched on April 1. It flagged the new approach on a... Read more

Proposed Joint PH-China Oil and Gas Exploration: Where’s the Framework?

BEFORE LEAVING for the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting in Singapore, Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said in a July 31 press briefing that the Philippine government offered to... Read more