One of the issues that came up during last week’s round table discussion on election issues organized by the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) at the Asian Institute of Management in Makati City was the presence of media practitioners who are actually paid by candidates to bring their campaign on air, all the [...]
“Let’s call a spade a spade,” lawyer Martin Delgra III, spokesperson of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP)-Davao City chapter, told a few reporters before the start of the Club 888 Forum at The Marco Polo, Davao last Wednesday. “Let’s call it the Ampatuan Massacre. There is no intention to drag the names of [...]
SECOND UPDATE: NUJP’s final list of media casualties at the end of the article. Someone on Facebook asked why people — we journalists, specifically — are saying, “Stop killing journalists” when it should, under the circumstances, be, “Stop killing” – period. That made me think, and I had to admit to myself that in the [...]
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