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Media quick to record warnings election watchdogs

CMFR CHEERS the media accounts highlighting the looming threats to free and fair elections in May. From the start of the national campaign, some citizen groups have warned about... Read more

Fuel Crisis takes over front pages; print and online media report unverified campaign claims

The red-tagging story was also picked up by The Philippine Star, Manila Standard, and Manila Times in their front pages. Star and Standard cited an ‘intelligence report’ and Duterte’s... Read more

This Week in Media (March 14 to 18, 2022)

SOME NEWS organizations called on Filipinos to come forward as sources by speaking out on the burden of rising oil prices. The collective strain has compelled workers and consumers... Read more

Media boost false claims on “500k” crowd at UniTeam rally

JEERS TO the media organizations that parroted without checking the grossly exaggerated number of people who supposedly attended the Marcos-Duterte campaign event on March 13. Some online news accounts... Read more

Ukraine crisis dominates front pages; Online media fact-check and highlight issues

METHODOLOGY: CMFR reviewed the coverage of leading Manila broadsheets (Philippine Daily Inquirer, The Philippine Star, and Manila Bulletin), three other selected broadsheets (The Daily Tribune, The Manila Times, and... Read more

Multi-sourcing needed: Media’s treatment of killings should go beyond military sources

JEERS TO several print media organizations for taking the word of the military about the death of a volunteer teacher and four others in the province of Davao de... Read more

Print coverage underwhelming, outdone by online media in-depth reports

AS THE public moves away from newspapers, there is so far scant evidence of any effort on the part of print publications to retain their loyal readers. Those surveyed... Read more

Media highlight candidates’ campaign sorties

AMID THE COVID-19 pandemic, the campaign period for the May 9 elections started last February 8. The official candidate list of Commission on Elections (Comelec) include: 10 presidential bets;... Read more

This Week in Media (January 10 to 14, 2022)

ADDING TO the grim start of 2022, the second week of the year saw the steady rise in COVID-19 cases, breaching the three million mark within less than two... Read more

Report on Comelec hacking flawed — but flags Election 2022 digital vulnerabilities

JEERS TO the Manila Bulletin for its breaking news report on the alleged hacking of Comelec’s servers, which it claimed to have verified. But the report did not detail... Read more