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On a learning curve in a world of change

IN A complex and fast-changing world, journalists cannot be dismissive of the continuing need to learn. They can no longer claim that they have seen and done everything. The... Read more

Gunmen in the news

SUCH A terrible subject for this blog to take up at the start of the year! Of course, there are other issues—but this one has taken hold of the... Read more

Prickly points of practice

HERE, AGAIN, are discussions of points raised with me now and then by students of journalism as well as practitioners and outsiders who have to deal with them—news subjects... Read more

Saving ethics—from the market

Second and last part THE ATTITUDE has carried over to this day such that very few media companies turn a profit and the media fraternity has remained a mixed collection... Read more

Writers and public intellectuals

WE ALL know who, or what, the writer is. He or she is a poet, a playwright, an essayist and/or a novelist. But he or she is also the... Read more

Saving ethics*

WHEN I started as a newspaperman, in the mid-1960s, the profession was not so haunted by ethics as it is now, and that’s because rarely, if at all, did... Read more

Courtesy of the Brits: An inquiry into the state of the press

Leave it to the Brits to respond to a crisis with gravitas. Perhaps, to a fault, as suggested by Alan Cowell in his column on Page Two of the... Read more

PNoy’s thing with the media

Yes, one isn’t quite sure yet what word it is to describe this strange weight that seems to bear down on President Benigno S. Aquino III's relationship with the... Read more

Re-visiting the culture of impunity

Unfortunately, the campaign to end impunity reveals also the lack of understanding about impunity. The discourse latches on the continuing violations, the repetition of all kinds of crime "with... Read more

Power vs freedom

FREEDOM OF information, an issue that constitutes a critical test for any nation with any pretension to democracy, has hung unresolved hereabouts all these years. I’m not surprised really,... Read more