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  • Media Drinks Government’s Kool Aid on Inflation

      RODRIGO DUTERTE did not run on an economic platform. He did not talk much about what economic changes people should expect. As president, he has admitted not knowing... Read more

  • Part of the solution

    SPECULATING ON the reasons for a suicide and attributing it to a single cause is a common and misleading habit of the media. The media also tend to make... Read more

  • Papal Bull

    THE RESIGNATION of Joseph Ratzinger as Pope has been in Philippine news media—in TV, radio, and print—from the time he first announced his intention to resign the Papacy... Read more

  • Free TV, the tabloids and elections

    THE PHILIPPINE media have often been accused of bias in the coverage of elections. But inadequacy rather than partiality has been their more telling flaw. Content analysis of the... Read more

  • Skillful

    Cheers to ANC’s Pinky Webb for her determined and skillful questioning of Lt. Col. Romeo Brawner Jr. on the alleged kidnap and abduction by the Armed Forces of the... Read more

  • Incoherent

    Cheers and Jeers to GMA-7’s Case Unclosed June 4 episode, “Danyos”, which looked into how the government has failed to indemnify the victims of human rights violations during the... Read more

  • TV monitors

    Reporting Asia CHEERS TO ANC’s Top Story for trying to move beyond the parochial orientation that characterize much of the Philippine press when it comes to news about the... Read more

  • TV Monitor

    Solid reporting ABS-CBN’s Bandila did a good job in its June 22 exclusive report on the Maguindanao elections. Its news team saw two election returns (ERs) obtained from a... Read more

  • TV monitors

    The missing links SENTRO REPORTED the allegations of poll fraud by opposition senatorial candidates Panfilo Lacson and Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III last May 29 but did not press the... Read more

  • TV Monitors

    Irrepressible fan BROADCASTER CHINO Trinidad wore several hats—that of reporter, compatriot, and fan—when he covered the bout between boxer Manny Pacquiao and Mexican Jorge Solis last April 13. Reporting... Read more