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Saving ethics*

WHEN I started as a newspaperman, in the mid-1960s, the profession was not so haunted by ethics as it is now, and that’s because rarely, if at all, did... Read more

Courtesy of the Brits: An inquiry into the state of the press

Leave it to the Brits to respond to a crisis with gravitas. Perhaps, to a fault, as suggested by Alan Cowell in his column on Page Two of the... Read more

PNoy’s thing with the media

YES, ONE isn’t quite sure yet what word it is to describe this strange weight that seems to bear down on President Benigno S. Aquino III’s relationship with the... Read more

PNoy’s thing with the media

Yes, one isn’t quite sure yet what word it is to describe this strange weight that seems to bear down on President Benigno S. Aquino III's relationship with the... Read more

THE PHILIPPINE Daily Inquirer described President Benigno S. Aquino III as "affable" during his speech at the 9th MediaNation "Summit" last Friday, November 23, in contrast to his "combative"... Read more

Re-visiting the culture of impunity

Unfortunately, the campaign to end impunity reveals also the lack of understanding about impunity. The discourse latches on the continuing violations, the repetition of all kinds of crime "with... Read more

The Supreme Court October 23 resolution: Restricting already restricted coverage

Although the Supreme Court said it had merely “modified” the guidelines on the live coverage of the Ampatuan Massacre trial, its October 23, 2012 En Banc Resolution mandating “Guidelines... Read more

Media endorsing candidates

United States (US) newspapers endorsed their preferred candidate for President a few days before the November 6 US elections. On the day of the elections themselves, some of the... Read more

Power vs freedom

FREEDOM OF information, an issue that constitutes a critical test for any nation with any pretension to democracy, has hung unresolved hereabouts all these years. I’m not surprised really,... Read more

Nuisance candidates all

THE PHILIPPINE media were having a field day last week at the expense of the usual batch of so-called "nuisance candidates" for various posts including the Senate who, every... Read more