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Repeating the same mistakes

JEERS TO SEVERAL news organizations for committing the same old errors in much of media coverage of suicide. Read more

The incident involving celebrity-host Vhong Navarro gained massive media coverage which highlighted some failures of the press and raised questions on media coverage, news priorities, context and media perspective... Read more

Discouraging Suicide: The Media’s Responsibility

JEERS TO THE ABS-CBN, GMA7, Solar TV, TV5, and the Manila Bulletin for their careless reporting of a suicide at the Metro Rail Transit Guadalupe station last May 8. Read more

TV network, online site enter media landscape

NEWS NEVER stops, and neither do the news organizations. A new television channel and a new online content provider were launched in 2012 just as the impeachment trial of... Read more

The audience first, or the public be damned?

What the entry of one more TV news channel into the picture, and the attempt to rethink existing channels into more news-heavy media should mean, is that an audience... Read more

The Tulfo Franchise: The Media as Messiah

Can T3 really solve the country's problems? Read more

Lynch Mobs and Rabble Rousers

As the often colorful language of Filipino journalists would put it, the “XXX” episode was an “SS” story, “SS” being shorthand for masturbation. Read more

Does Self-Regulation have a Future in the Philippines?

THE MEDIA are not only failing to regulate themselves; more importantly, some media organizations are actually depending on the government to intervene, in effect eroding the very principle of... Read more

CommentaryTV, Willing Willie, the Public Sphere

by Melinda Quintos de Jesus Published in the May-June 2011 issue of PJR Reports THE CONTROVERSY hounding the television show Willing Willie does not begin and end with the boy, Janjan,... Read more

News as Entertainment

PRESIDENT AQUINO's love life, Pope John Paul II’s beatification, and the British royal wedding were among the major stories in the Philippine media last April. These landed on... Read more