Manila Bulletin Archives | Page 24 of 29

Media took their accustomed paths in Poe citizenship coverage

SENATOR AND presidential candidate Grace Poe’s citizenship has been under scrutiny for more than a month since 2013 senatorial candidate Rizalito David filed a disqualification case against her before... Read more

Red-tagging a Lumad school

JEERS TO Manila Bulletin’s Tempo for accusing in its headline a Lumad school of being run by the New People’s Army (NPA). 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

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

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

Slumbook entries as national news

JEERS TO The Manila Bulletin for classifying as national news a story on Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr.'s music, food and other preferences. Marcos Jr. Is believed likely to... Read more

Reporting the new EDSA traffic scheme:Doing a good job, so far

TO ADDRESS the continuing traffic woes in Metro Manila, Malacañang announced on September 1 that the Philippine National Police-Highway Patrol Group (PNP-HPG) will take over the enforcement of traffic... Read more

Reporting the Iglesia ni Cristo Mass Action: Leaving the public uninformed

MEMBERS OF the influential Iglesia ni Cristo (INC—literally, Christ’s Church) sect trooped to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Padre Faura street in Manila on August 27, protesting what... Read more

Unverified endorsement

JEERS TO the Manila Bulletin and InterAksyon.com for failing to verify the truth of a statement by Communist Party of the Philippines founding chair Jose Ma. Sison allegedly endorsing... Read more