I’m on my way back now to Manila, after covering the 41st ASEAN Ministerial Summit here in Singapore.
Singapore is really clean, as if someone washes it with antiseptic every night while all Singaporeans sleep. Everything’s orderly and everyone seemed disciplined.
Published in the Jerusalem Post and circulated to Manila’s diplomatic and foreign affairs reporters is a loving tribute […]
Kudos to writer Ninotchka Rosca for her banner story in today’s Inquirer titled “RP envoy charged in US”.
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An inquest panel today heard lawyer Raymond Fortun’s complaint against former Assemblyman Homobono Adaza and several others on alleged extortion and planning a coup d’etat.
Good friend and fellow journalist Dana Batnag of Jiji Press has started blogging.
In her latest post, Dana focuses on the penchant of both government and media in (mis-)reporting raw information on the number of casualties in disasters and calamities, just like the gory aftermath of typhoon “Frank”:
ABS-CBN journalist Ces Drilon, cameraman Jimmy Encarnacion and Prof. Octavio Dimaampo have been freed Tuesday night, according to ABS-CBN and GMA news reports.
UPDATE: Inquirer reports that Sen. Loren Legarda had been involved in the negotiations for their release for the past five days “at the request of Drilon’s family and ABS-CBN”.
Journalism, they say, is history written in a hurry. And some hurry more than the rest. The daily dash to beat the deadlines have inspired others to plagiarize, as we can read from this report by Hector Bryant Macale of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility.
As you can see, next to the case of the Alecks Pabico was my own. Yes, one of my articles in Malaya was plagiarized only a day after it was published.
At the tribute led by the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, PISTON honorary chair Medardo Roda made a dramatic visit […]
Over at Global Voices Online, I submitted a web and blog roundup on news and reactions to the […]
Trade unionists and activists are in mourning today following the death of Crispin Beltran. Fondly called “Ka Bel” […]
Please help find Randy Felix P. Malayao (shown in the picture here), former vice president for Visayas (1991-1994) […]
The phrase “tall, dark and handsome” were a perfect match for Randy Malayao. Towering above student journalists during […]
Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita got a surprise from students of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. Instead of […]
A debate rages in the blogosphere about journalism and blogging, with partisans lobbing virtual grenades at Prof. Luis […]
Filipino journalists mark World Press Freedom Day today, May 3, not on a cheerful note. As the Committee […]
The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) and the Asia Media Forum (AMF) are doing the media […]
Congratulations to “bloggist” and “media watcher” Hector Bryant L. Macale, assistant editor of the PJR Reports, for being […]
Jose Torres and Rowena Paraan of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines today issued a statement expressing grief over the unending slays of journalists.
Benefredo Acabal was slain April 7 in Pasig City.
The global Reporters Without Borders organization issued this alert over Acabal’s murder.
Below is the NUJP’s statement emailed to journalists and media outlets a few moments ago and issued on the day of Acabal’s burial:
Grieving for press freedom
Today, we lay to rest the first journalist slain in 2008 and the 56th under the Arroyo administration. The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines joins the family, friends and colleagues of newspaper publisher and columnist Benefredo Acabal in mourning the murder of another member of the Philippine media.
Acabal published the tabloid Pilipino Newsmen and wrote a column under the name Freddie Yanco. Before putting up his own paper two years ago, he wrote for other tabloids, among them Toro, Saksi and Puntos. His murder orphaned four children, aged four to nine years old.
Acabal was brazenly chased and gunned down by a lone gunman in front of eyewitnesses in Pasig on April 7. While police investigations have yet to conclude if Acabal’s murder was related to his work, his friends and colleagues strongly believed it was. Acabal reportedly received several threats prior to his death.
Here are photos I took when we went to see and cover the reported use of indelible ink […]
The Department of Foreign Affairs and the European Commission held a joint press conference this morning to announce […]
By ANTHONY IAN CRUZ
tonyocruz.com
April 3, 2008
The newly-formed People’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Watch coalition on Thursday lambasted the Arroyo government’s report to the United Nations Human Rights Council, calling it “lopsided, one-sided and self-serving”.
Amid growing international uproar over its human rights record, the Philippine government undergoes its first UPR on April 11 in Geneva, along with 15 other countries.
The UPR will look into the Philippines’ compliance with UN human rights-related treaties and other international obligations.
In a press and public forum, People’s UPR Watch spokesman Fr. Rex Reyes delivered a scathing critique of the government’s 20-page, 174-point report, saying it is full of omissions.
The government did not admit in the report that not one perpetrator in the 902 extrajudicial killings and 180 enforced disappearances has ever been convicted or punished.