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Human rights under Marcos: Duterte’s successor continues legacy of violations and abuse

DESPITE ASSURANCES from the new President, attacks against critics of the government and their families are still making headlines in TV, print, and online reports. Quite alarmingly, one violation... Read more

ROTC as “cure” for mental health problems: Media cite experts to refute DND Claim

CHEERS TO reports which quickly debunked the claim of Secretary of National Defense Carlito Galvez, Jr. who argued for making the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) program mandatory, because... Read more

Some media fail to provide background on new BIR Chief

JEERS TO news accounts that reported the appointment of Romeo Lumagui Jr. as the new Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) Commissioner last November 15 without any reference to the... Read more

Rewriting History: Learning or Propaganda?

HISTORICAL REVISIONISM has long been an issue in the country, even before Ferdinand Marcos Jr. assumed the presidency. A team of scholars did academic research to establish how disinformation... Read more

This Week in Media (October 3 to 7, 2022)

LESS THAN a week after his return from New York, amid continuing recovery efforts for the victims of Super Typhoon Karding, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. flew to Singapore on... Read more

Puff pieces promote Padilla, Gatchalian

JEERS TO some broadsheets’ practice of publishing PR pieces in the guise of news. In just one month, they published a number of reports on Senators Sherwin Gatchalian and... Read more

Media recall problematic ROTC history

IN HIS first State of the Nation Address, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. urged Congress to restore the mandatory Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program for senior high school students.... Read more

Journalism or PR? Broadsheets promote public official’s image

JEERS TO three Manila newspapers for giving undue and uncritical media attention to an elected official. The Manila Standard, the Manila Bulletin, and The Philippine Star have published several... Read more

Rewriting history: Media promote, counter Marcos propaganda

POLITICAL PROPAGANDA takes all forms. The Marcoses have always used the circus elements of politics to manipulate and control the public mind. Mainstream media need to understand that their... Read more

MEDIA AND ELECTIONS 2022

THE MEDIA community in the country and in many parts of the world have not engaged much in the collective exercise of questioning how journalists do their work, or... Read more