August 2015 monitor Archives | CMFR

• Supreme Court Ruling on Enrile Bail: Beyond Humanitarian Grounds

  CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer and Rappler.com for their analyses of the Supreme Court’s (SC) ruling on Senator Juan Ponce Enrile’s petition for bail. 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

• Covering the Iglesia Ni Cristo Controversy: Imbalanced and unfair reports leave audience still uninformed

  The media, by using limited and biased sources without analysis provided reports of doubtful accuracy, leaving the public as uninformed as it was before the controversy erupted. Read more

• Distorting the truth about IDPs

  JEERS TO the Manila Bulletin for failing to verify a press statement that gravely misrepresented the position of a UN official. Read more

• Protecting the seas

  CHEERS TO ABS-CBN 2’s Failon Ngayon for putting the spotlight on the dangers a mining company poses to a protected part of the sea in Batangas. Read more

• Celebrity ‘news’

  JEERS TO the Manila Bulletin for a report on a celebrity wedding masquerading as relevant news. Read more

• Publishing someone else’s story

  JEERS TO Rappler for republishing an article without the permission of its original publisher VERA Files and the articles’ coauthor. Read more

• One-sided and editorialized

  JEERS TO The Daily Tribune for publishing a one-sided and editorialized report on Vice President Jejomar Binay’s interview with ABS-CBN’s Noli De Castro. Read more

• BSA’s love life—again

  JEERS TO Manila Bulletin for once again elevating President Benigno Aquino III’s rumored romances to national news status. Read more