Media Monitor Archives

Media expose teachers’ “cycle of debt” trapping Filipino teachers

CHEERS TO the media reports for looking into the problem of debt that has hounded teachers in the past, once again calling attention to what has been a perennial... Read more

Voice of the people on VP’s impeachment: No to dismissal, no to delays

CONCERNS CONTINUE to grow over the Senate’s prolonged inaction on the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte. More than four months have passed since the House of Representatives... Read more

From the Newsrooms: May 26 to June 1, 2024

House passed divorce bill, Senate divided Read more

MindaNews examines ‘fat,’ ‘obese’ dynasties in Mindanao

CHEERS TO MindaNews for a comprehensive, data-driven report on Mindanao’s political dynasties – the fat, the obese, the growing and the long-surviving. Read more

Drug war victims: Exhumed bodies dramatize need to preserve the record of government violence and injustice

CHEERS TO Rappler for its report on the cold December morning when the bodies of some victims killed during the government’s drug war had to be exhumed from the... Read more

VERA Files reports need for sex education, reproductive health services

CHEERS to VERA Files for calling attention to the dismal state of reproductive health care services and sex education, especially among Filipino youth. The report by Nica Rhiana Hanopol,... Read more

ABS-CBN reports heightened difficulties of child PWDs

CHEERS TO News.ABS-CBN.com for calling attention to the added burdens imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic on young persons with disabilities (PWDs). Read more

Media call out government’s all brawn enforcement of ECQ protocols

CHEERS TO the media for keeping in the public eye the aggressive implementation of the recent enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) with reference to human rights and past quarantine abuses.... Read more

Philstar.com takes down own report but publishes DOF response

JEERS TO Philstar.com for taking down its own report on the country’s agreements with China while publishing a Department of Finance (DOF) letter protesting its contents. On April 1,... Read more

Media on the questionable arrests of the ‘Human Rights Day 7’

ON DECEMBER 10—Human Rights Day no less—the PNP arrested a journalist and six activists on charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives as part of what critics denounced... Read more