President Benigno Aquino III Archives

Detainee’s Death Drives Media to Question Duterte’s Crackdown on Tambays

PRESENTED AS an effort to curb criminality, the president’s order to crackdown against “tambays” was given in a speech on June 13. He referred to loiterers as “potential... Read more

Duterte’s Purge: Media Contribute to Confusion

EXPRESSING HIS “disappointment” over reports of persistent corruption in the government particularly in regional offices, President Rodrigo Duterte announced in one of his weekend press conferences that all... 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

Misquoting a press release

JEERS TO The Manila Times for erroneously quoting the Supreme Court Public Information Office (SC PIO) in a report about the early retirement of Supreme Court Associate Justice Martin... Read more

Police officer attacks journalists covering protest

CMFR/Philippines – A police officer allegedly attacked a journalist from an online newspaper and his colleague, and damaged cameras and other equipment during the dispersal of protesters along Commonwealth... Read more

The Inquirer’s latest “honest mistake”

JEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for publishing on its front page and its online edition a fake cover of Time Magazine with President Benigno Aquino III. Read more

Abolishing the PCGG

PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION on Good Government (PCGG) Chair Andres Bautista may have a point. The PCGG may have to be abolished—but only so it can be reorganized so it can... Read more

An underhanded law (Updated)

THE PRESIDENT’S remark that proper news practitioners should have no reason to worry if the Right of Reply Law passes is not only patronizing but also inversely misleading. It... Read more

PNoy’s thing with the media

YES, ONE isn’t quite sure yet what word it is to describe this strange weight that seems to bear down on President Benigno S. Aquino III’s relationship with the... Read more

His kind of people

THE PHILIPPINE Daily Inquirer described President Benigno S. Aquino III as “affable” during his speech at the 9th MediaNation “Summit” last Friday, November 23, in contrast to his “combative”... Read more