Improving coverage by the public/current affairs programs

The Philippine media covered  election-related events and personalities aggressively during the campaign season. News media organizations such as ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp. (ABS-CBN 2 and ABS-CBN News Channel) and GMA Network Inc. (GMA-7 and sister-station QTV 11) pooled together their resources in partnership with other groups to provide what was probably the widest  multimedia coverage of the local and national elections.

The usual news programs kept track of events on a daily basis from day one of the campaign (February 9) to election day.  But it was the public/current affairs programs that provided the in-depth discussions,  analyses and contextualization those events needed for them to be meaningful to the public.

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