by mediatimes | May 12, 2020 | Media Times 2019
CMFR FACT-FINDING TEAM REPORT ON ATTACKS AND THREATS AGAINST JOURNALISTS AND MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS IN REGION XII (SOCCSKSARGEN, MINDANAO) The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) organized a fact finding team to look into cases of violent attacks against...
by mediatimes | Mar 3, 2020 | Media Times 2019
Add red-baiting to the perils of truth First published in CMFR Website on September 20, 2019 TO THE many perils of truth-telling in the Philippines, where 165 journalists have been killed for their work since 1986, and hundreds more threatened, physically assaulted,...
by mediatimes | Mar 3, 2020 | Media Times 2019
STATE OF PH MEDIA Red-tagging, intimidation vs. press; Du30, state agents behind 69 cases from Freedom for Media, Freedom for All THE STATE OF MEDIA FREEDOM in the Philippines under the Duterte Administration remains a tragic story as new and more cases of attacks...
by mediatimes | Mar 3, 2020 | Media Times 2019
PUBLISHER’S NOTE MELINDA QUINTOS DE JESUS Executive Director, CMFR MIDTERM MEASURE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL PERFORMANCE IT IS hard to believe that Duterte has passed the mid-term of his administration, a point when most leaders begin to show scars of political...
by mediatimes | Mar 3, 2020 | Media Times 2019
Duterte in Absentia by Albert Lawrence Idia NOW YOU see him, now you don’t. Three years into his presidency, President Rodrigo Duterte has slipped out of the public eye sometimes for as long as seven days. Malacañang officials did not comment on the absences perhaps...
by mediatimes | Mar 3, 2020 | Media Times 2019
The President's man falls by Luis Adrian Hidalgo NICANOR FAELDON seemed to have a knack for landing in the middle of controversies. Not surprising, as his military career was not without excitement and color. A former marine captain, Faeldon took part in two coup...