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The Drugs That Got Away: Questions Linger on Multibillion-Peso Drug Shipment

Photo from PDEA Top Stories Facebook page. THE MONTHS-LONG blame game between the Bureau of Customs (BOC) and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) over the loss of PHP... Read more

On the ‘Sagay 9’: Media Note Police’s Premature Conclusion

CHEERS TO CNN Philippines’ News Night for its report on the ‘Sagay 9,’ which noted the police’s premature conclusion on the killing of nine farmers in Hacienda Nene in... Read more

Media Gloss Over Nuances in Recent Survey Results

POLLING FIRMS Social Weather Stations (SWS) and Pulse Asia closed the month of September with the release of the results of their latest surveys of public opinion on national... Read more

“Red October” Plot: Some Journalists Asked the Hard Questions

THERE WAS not much revealed during the president’s so-called “tete-a-tete” with his chief legal counsel, Sal Panelo, on September 11, including the president saying there was a plot to... Read more

Duterte’s EJK ‘Admission’: Media Yield to Palace Spin

PRESIDENT RODRIGO Duterte’s blasphemous, sexist, anti-poor tirades, including hate speech, have made enough headlines in the past to make such offensive outbursts almost a cliché. During the oath-taking... Read more

Following up on Ompong’s Destruction

POST-TYPHOON ‘OMPONG,’ the media scrambled to cover the provinces hit hardest by the disaster, reporting on casualties, damage to infrastructure and agriculture, as well as rescue and relief... Read more

Inflation Woes: Media Need to Ask More Questions

TYPHOON OMPONG (Mangkhut) ravaged provinces of the northern and central Luzon last September 15. The extensive damage to agriculture and fisheries is likely to raise even more the... Read more

“Ompong” Coverage: OK But Could Have Been Better

TYPHOON OMPONG (Mangkhut) was the 15th and so far the strongest typhoon to smash into the Philippines this year, and even as it approached had invited comparisons with... Read more

Only One Big Story at a Time?

ISSUES AND events which deserve attention are often sidelined when a big story breaks and continues to develop. But in this age of multiple media platforms and formats... Read more

PH Withdrawal from ICC: Other Issues Distract Media from Oral Arguments

WITH SO many other issues in the news, the media has not kept track of the case filed in the Supreme Court (SC), which relates to the killing of... Read more