by mediatimes | Jan 31, 2023 | Uncategorized
PUBLISHER’S NOTE MELINDA QUINTOS DE JESUS Executive Director, CMFR 2022: FROM DUTERTE TO MARCOS Media Times recalls 2022 as two halves of a whole: the last six months under Rodrigo Roa Duterte (RRD) and the first six months of Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos (BBM). ...
by mediatimes | Jan 31, 2022 | Media Times 2021
Threats and attacks against the press under Duterte Twenty one journalists were killed in the line of work. Six were killed during the Covid-19 pandemic – four in 2020, two in 2021, all males. With the press as submissive as it has become to the government agenda, how...
by mediatimes | Jan 31, 2022 | Pandemic Year 2
Corruption scandals amid COVID-19 in 2021 By Leah Perez, Jeraldine Pascual The consistent lack of attention has caused the government to sideline health needs, turning more to ambitious plans of development based on infrastructure. Corruption may be a long standing...
by mediatimes | Jan 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
The media in the time of COVID Uncritical adherence to conventions is indeed a major factor in many journalists being no more analytical than their cameras and sound recorders. LUIS V. TEODORO THE COVID-19 pandemic could not have come at a worst time for the...
by mediatimes | Jan 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
Hostilities vs. Human Rights: State agents in the forefront of HR violations By Penz Baterna “Kill, Kill, Kill,” was not only the President’s mantra for the war on drugs. It has also become his immediate response to address other important issues including insurgency...