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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

More of the Usual (Part 2)

The four television news programs focused on the prominent senatorial candidates. The coverage of the party-list group also remained lacking in substance. The public affairs programs and election specials... Read more

More of the Usual (Part 1)

The number of election-related reports in the three papers monitored during the period decreased as other issues took precedence in the daily coverage. Online sites, meantime, provide additional information... Read more

Covering or seeking cover?: The curious cases of blocktimers in Negros Occidental

It is election season, when politics, the news media, and entertainment are thrown into one merry, colorful, noisy, and moneyed mix. It is also the time when some broadcasters and... Read more

First Report: TV, Broadsheets Covered Most Well Known Candidates for Senator in First Two Weeks of the Campaign (Feb. 12-24, 2013)

Will we see more of the same news media coverage this year that has characterized every election campaign? Read more

STORIFY: Should TV networks allow candidates to guest in their entertainment programs? Why or why not?

How often have we seen political candidates, especially during an election campaign, appear as guests in television entertainment programs or whose lives are featured in drama anthologies? In its... Read more

The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility Monitor of Media Coverage of the May 2010 Elections (For the period Feb 9-27, 2010)

As expected, coverage of the first three weeks of the 2010 election campaign focused on the leading presidential contenders. In contrast, coverage of vice-presidential candidates, political parties, and party-list... Read more