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  • Journalism or stenography?

    IT CAN do so, but CMFR has never claimed as the basis for its monitor and critique of media performance the journalism experience and qualifications of its staff, only... Read more

  • Enough

    ONE COULD argue that whatever happens to Kris Aquino matters. Not only is she the daughter of Ninoy and Cory Aquino; she is also one of the sisters of... Read more

  • Enough

    ONE COULD argue that whatever happens to Kris Aquino matters. Not only is she the daughter of Ninoy and Cory Aquino; she is also one of the sisters... Read more

  • Playing the blame game: the media coverage of a minor’s suicide

    The mainstream media participated in the blame game that started in cyberspace when a student publication broke the story of a freshman University of the Philippines student’s suicide mere... Read more

  • Part of the solution

    SPECULATING ON the reasons for a suicide and attributing it to a single cause is a common and misleading habit of the media. The media also tend to make... Read more

  • Coalitions wanted

    Non-governmental organizations, or NGOs, have been recognized in the laws of many states as expressions of the right to association, but have also come about because of the political... Read more

  • The continuing past (Updated)

    AT A lecture I gave recently to journalism students, the discussion, until now focused on the principles of news writing, was detoured by someone in the audience toward a... Read more

  • Papal Bull

    THE RESIGNATION of Joseph Ratzinger as Pope has been in Philippine news media—in TV, radio, and print—from the time he first announced his intention to resign the Papacy... Read more

  • Corporate governance

    HERE AGAIN is one of those exchanges I find myself drawn to with students researching for academic papers and theses. This time it’s about my take as a newspaper... Read more

  • Being pro-active

    JOURNALISTS AND media advocacy groups have for years been urging a stop to the Philippine National Police and other government investigating bodies’ long-standing practice of presenting crime suspects to... Read more