The Philippine Star Archives | Page 26 of 29

Disguising Ads as Editorial Content

JEERS TO three major dailies for passing off an advertisement as editorial content. On March 15, 2016, the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the Philippine Star, and the Manila Bulletin ran... Read more

Election Ad Spending: Reporting Partial Nielsen Figures

JEERS TO several media organizations for reporting incomplete and unverified figures on advertising expenses in 2015 of the presidential, vice presidential and senatorial candidates running in this year’s elections.... Read more

Pemberton conviction: Admirable professionalism by the press

THE KILLING of Jennifer Laude,a Filipino transgender, by Private First Class Joseph Scott Pemberton of the US Marines on October 11, 2014, is one of those cases that, because... Read more

International Terrorism as Local News

MORE THAN 120 people were killed in the coordinated attacks in six locations by the international terrorist group Islamic State (IS) on November 13 in Paris. The ruthless killings... Read more

Reporting ‘Tanim-Bala’: The Need to Go Deeper

On September 18, Filipino-American Rhed Austria de Guzman recounted on Facebook her experience at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), alleging that airport personnel found two bullets in her... Read more

Closing the Pandora’s Box—A Difficult Task

PRESIDENT AQUINO finally gave closure to the Mamasapano incident’s “alternative truth,” a controversy which the President himself publicly raised when he announced the government was probing another version of... Read more

An Alternative Truth?

NEARLY EIGHT months after, the Mamasapano incident once again found its way into the headlines after President Benigno Aquino III announced during a “Meet the Inquirer Multimedia forum” on... Read more

Entertainment trivia on the front pages

JEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer and The Philippine Star for prioritizing entertainment news on their front pages. Read more

Binay’s ho-hum “counter-SONA”

A WEEK AFTER President Benigno Simeon Aquino III appeared before a joint session of the Congress and spoke to his “bosses” for his last State of the Nation Address... Read more

Careless and simplistic about suicide

JEERS TO several news organizations for another careless coverage on a suicide case. Read more