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  The lowest common denominator at work

  On FB, I found an unlikely posting on the revelations tracking the mauling of a lunchtime show host. It came from an expert-academic friend whose account usually engages his... Read more

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  Media’s indeterminate power

  ECHOING THE late "Muppets" creator Jim Henson, a Manila TV network invites viewers to watch the Filipino movies it regularly airs by saying that life’s like a movie. Unfortunately it... Read more

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  The hijacking of press freedom

  THANKS TO technology, press freedom is looking less and less like anything it’s been intended. Indeed, press freedom has been hijacked, to the extent that it now belongs more to... Read more

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  Real time coverage

  For the rest of the world, CNN has become the first "go-to" source for news of crisis in the US. The Boston Marathon had been news even before the... Read more

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  Part of the solution

  SPECULATING ON the reasons for a suicide and attributing it to a single cause is a common and misleading habit of the media. The media also tend to make... Read more

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  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

• Staying Tuned-In and True

  A journalist’s romance with television Staying Tuned-In and True By Cheche Lazaro IT’S BEEN 20 years since we first thought up the idea of putting together an investigative newsmagazine... Read more