Media and Elections Archives | CMFR
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Info-tainment can work: Check out Dapat Totoo series on voters education
CHEERS TO the #DapatTotoo series of GMA Integrated News for taking a fresh approach to voter education. Its Elections 2025 digital campaign “#DapatTotoo” has found an effective way to... Read more
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MEDIA AND ELECTIONS 2022
THE MEDIA community in the country and in many parts of the world have not engaged much in the collective exercise of questioning how journalists do their work, or... Read more
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TV coverage still on the same track; some gave space to voter education as Lacson and Moreno join forces to ask Robredo to withdraw
FOR TEN straight weeks of the campaign period, television coverage did little more than highlight what was said and done during campaign sorties. This period included efforts to devote... Read more
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Print keeps Marcos Jr. on their front pages; online media spotlight issues on the ground
LESS THAN a month before election day, controversies and changes in candidate endorsements and in survey findings underscored developments in the presidential race, and kept it in print and... Read more
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Media highlight candidates’ campaign sorties
AMID THE COVID-19 pandemic, the campaign period for the May 9 elections started last February 8. The official candidate list of Commission on Elections (Comelec) include: 10 presidential bets;... Read more
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Report on Comelec hacking flawed — but flags Election 2022 digital vulnerabilities
JEERS TO the Manila Bulletin for its breaking news report on the alleged hacking of Comelec’s servers, which it claimed to have verified. But the report did not detail... Read more
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Lost in a loophole: The legality of premature campaigning in the current election law
ELECTION FEVER has spread months before the official filing of certificates of candidacy (COCs) from October 1 to 8. Eight months prior, posters and tarpaulins bearing political faces and... Read more
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Headstart for 2022: TV Patrol gives Pacquiao pre-campaign boost
JEERS TO TV Patrol for giving boxer and senator Manny Pacquiao airtime to advance his 2022 political agenda through an exclusive interview four days after he lost against Cuban... Read more
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Defeat of Dynasties: A More Critical Look
CHEERS TO ABS-CBN 2’s TV Patrol for a critical look into the defeat of some local dynasties. In a May 17 report, TV Patrol noted that political dynasties... Read more
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Silent on Local Polls: TV Still Hot on the National Campaign Trail, Puff Pieces Still Dominate Print
THE LOCAL campaign kickoff on March 29 helped increase election-related reports, but brought little improvement to the reportage on the campaign. Most of the reports on TV were still... Read more
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