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Marcos Burial: Sidestepping Legal Issues, Ignoring Implications

WITH A vote of 9-5, the Supreme Court has allowed the burial of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos in the Libingan ng mga Bayani. The ruling came as... Read more

Documenting Social Media Abuse

CHEERS TO Rappler for its investigation of the fake social media accounts, trolls and bogus sites during the elections and its application as propaganda afterwards. The misuse and... Read more

Online Threats against Journalists Mark Duterte’s 100 Days

IT STARTED even during the campaign. Journalists critical of anything about then candidate Rodrigo Duterte were savaged on social media and it has not stopped. Duterte’s defenders rain... Read more

Knowing Your Source: Think Before You Click

THINK BEFORE you click. You may be sharing propaganda as truth—and thus, helping to dumb down people who access the Internet and social media. The Internet, as a wide... Read more

2016 Jaime V. Ongpin Journalism Seminar to Discuss Elections and the Duterte Administration

FIVE PANELISTS from television, print and online news organizations will discuss the media and the 2016 elections and the coverage of issues raised during the first months of... Read more

Duterte’s Purge: Media Contribute to Confusion

EXPRESSING HIS “disappointment” over reports of persistent corruption in the government particularly in regional offices, President Rodrigo Duterte announced in one of his weekend press conferences that all... Read more

State of Lawless Violence: Media’s Watchdog Role Crucial

MEDIA’S RESPONSIBILITY to provide information and to explain what’s going on has become even more crucial in the context of the recent actions of the Duterte administration that... Read more

Davao Bombings: Helpful Historical Background

CHEERS TO Sun.Star Davao and Rappler for providing a timeline on previous bombings in Davao City in light of the recent attack that shook that city. In an... Read more

Marcos Burial: Keeping Track of a Controversy

CHEERS TO Rappler for consistently covering the controversy over the burial of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. As the Supreme Court (SC)... Read more

Drug War EJKs: Cross-Checking Cayetano’s Murder, Homicide Stats

CHEERS TO Rappler for spotting inaccuracies in Senator Alan Peter Cayetano’s graph showing a “drastic” drop in the number of murder and homicide cases recorded during the first month... Read more