Sensationalism Archives | CMFR

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  Araullo’s magnum opus: GMA sheds light on crime hounding children

  CHEERS TO GMA News Online for a searing special report on a criminal practice at once hidden and on the rise: the online sexual exploitation of children or OSEC. Read more

• Sensationalizing a Crime Scene

    JEERS TO ABS-CBN 2’s Umagang Kay Ganda for sensationalizing a crime caught on camera. The story “Lalaki, patay sa pananaksak sa Quezon City” aired during the Sept. 7... Read more

• Trivializing death

  JEERS TO a report that trivializes the death of a broadcaster who was shot dead in Quezon City on October 31. Read more

• Gore on the front page

  JEERS TO The Philippine Star for publishing on its front page a graphic photo of the 2006 killing of an Abra congressman. Read more

• Demeaning—again

  JEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer and The Philippine Star for using as banner photo, a picture of Miss World Philippines candidates in their bikinis. Read more

• Unverified, sensationalized reporting (UPDATED)

  JEERS TO ABS-CBN 2’s Bandila for blatantly violating the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas’ (KBP) Broadcast Code of the Philippines and the network’s own internal “Standards Ethics Manual”... Read more

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  Media’s bad news

  A FREEDOM of Information (FOI) bill, this time drafted by the Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition, was filed through indirect initiative before the House of Representatives last July... 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