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Media Damnation (Updated)

The Philippine news media have a problem: how to make what’s turning into one of the most boring elections in Philippine history interesting as well as meaningful to a... Read more

Free TV, the tabloids and elections

THE PHILIPPINE media have often been accused of bias in the coverage of elections. But inadequacy rather than partiality has been their more telling flaw. Read more

MediaNation 9Focus on corruption

THIS YEAR’S “MediaNation (MN) 9” opened with the theme “Corruption in the Media” on Nov. 23, the third anniversary of the 2009 Ampatuan Massacre and the second... Read more

Free TV, the tabloids and elections

THE PHILIPPINE media have often been accused of bias in the coverage of elections. But inadequacy rather than partiality has been their more telling flaw. Content analysis of the... Read more

Gunmen in the news

SUCH A terrible subject for this blog to take up at the start of the year! Of course, there are other issues—but this one has taken hold of the... Read more

Capitol-run cable TV channel suspended; Former TV head, reporter file charges vs acting gov

THE TEMPORARY shutdown of a government-run cable channel in the province of Cebu has led to the filing of administrative charges against the acting governor, a lawyer, and two... Read more

PJR Reports October-December 2012

The year 2012 was particularly problematic for the Philippine press, primarily because of the continuing harassment and killing of journalists. But Presidential and Congressional initiatives as well as default... Read more

Prickly points of practice

HERE, AGAIN, are discussions of points raised with me now and then by students of journalism as well as practitioners and outsiders who have to deal with them—news subjects... Read more

Seminar-workshop on news media ethics for blocktimers and freelance broadcasters

CMFR will hold a seminar-workshop on news media ethics, with support from the Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy Manila through the US Department of State Small Democracy... Read more

Saving ethics—from the market

Second and last part THE ATTITUDE has carried over to this day such that very few media companies turn a profit and the media fraternity has remained a mixed collection... Read more