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Funding problems take backseat in coverage of PH Olympic performance

FILIPINO ATHLETES lifted the spirits of the whole nation as they brought home one gold, two silvers and one bronze from the Tokyo Olympics 2020, larger than the medal... Read more

Reporting IPCC findings: Online media sound the alarm on climate change in the PH

for highlighting the alarm sounded by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and for reporting the precise significance of its findings for the Philippines. Read more

Covering Taal: Media more responsible than the President

CHEERS TO the media for their swift and science-based reporting on the eruption of Taal Volcano last July 1, without hype or sensationalism. Cheers as well for critically countering... Read more

Domini Torrevillas, 80

AT 80, Domini Torrevillas was still writing and filing her column, “From the Stands” for The Philippine Star. A brief fatal illness ended 49 years of work as a... Read more

Lack of context in government testing policy

THE PUBLIC clamor for mass testing began as early as March 2020 when the World Health Organization (WHO) advised all countries to “test, test, test” in order to curb... Read more

Media on the questionable arrests of the ‘Human Rights Day 7’

ON DECEMBER 10—Human Rights Day no less—the PNP arrested a journalist and six activists on charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives as part of what critics denounced... Read more

Sensational treatment, lack of facts mar report on RTC shooting

JEERS TO several media outfits that made a spectacle out of the fatal shooting of a regional trial court judge allegedly by her clerk of court in Manila. Breaking... Read more

House leadership brouhaha sidelines budget woes

ALL EYES WERE on the House of Representatives amid rumors of an ouster bid against Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano (1st Dist., Taguig City) because of complaints over the budget... Read more

Criminalizing criticism: More hardships for suffering public

THE INHUMANE treatment of people violating quarantine protocols has exposed the Philippine National Police (PNP) as an agency without heart. (See monitor: “Editorials assail abuses during lockdown”) The administration... Read more

Muddling through aid distribution mess

THE EXTENDED community quarantine (ECQ) has pushed more Filipinos deeper into poverty. The government’s aid has been slow to trickle down and at the rate that things are going,... Read more