by mediatimes | Feb 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
The Dengvaxia Debacle: The Volatile Mix of Politics, Medicine and Failed Science by Luis Adrian Hidalgo Media was slow to ask probing questions. When reports about deaths attributed to Dengvaxia came by the third week of December, media merely carried the assumptions...
by mediatimes | Feb 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
A Recession in Disaster Response by Albert Lawrence Idia Media reporting can do a lot by calling attention to the lapses in disaster response and from new issues that need study. DUBBED THE “strongest tropical cyclone on record to make landfall in world history,”...
by mediatimes | Feb 11, 2018 | Feature Stories
PRESIDENTIAL FLIP-FLOPS FLIP-FLOPS ARE favored footwear in the Philippines. No one really cares much anymore that people wear them to church or to restaurants. Flip-flops as a policy style however is a different matter altogether. Everything that a president...
by mediatimes | Feb 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
A Press in Denial by Vergel O. Santos Some media have decided to simply watch from the sidelines, with a few even chiming in, on some pretext of letting the rule of law run its course, perhaps hoping Duterte would continue to favor them with their ration of freedom....
by mediatimes | Feb 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
PUBLISHER’S NOTE THE BLOODIEST YEAR THE REVIEW of media reports in 2017 was almost too painful to do. The work revisited so much senseless death and the egregious failure to protect and defend human life. It was as though the gods had hardened their hearts to...
