by mediatimes | Feb 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
Freedom of Information THE COUNTRY’s freedom of information (FOI) measure has been pushed to the backburner by every Congress in the last 29 years. As a bill, FOI has been filed and refiled several times in the last nine congresses, reaching the farthest stage of...
by mediatimes | Feb 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
Ampatuan Massacre: No Clear End in Sight By Melanie Y. Pinlac Journalists were killed Years on trial THE TRIAL of the masterminds and perpetrators of the November 23, 2009 massacre of 58 persons in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao continued in 2016 with no clear end in...
by mediatimes | Feb 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
BY THE NUMBERS: Attacks and Threats Against Journalists 2016 THE YEAR 2016 was not much different from other years past for journalists and media workers. Though officially the norm, press freedom was besieged by continuing impunity in the killing of journalists, by...
by mediatimes | Feb 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
Formulating Foreign Policy: All Bark by Jeraldine Pascual Much like prerequisites for taking a class, foreign relations is a subject that a president must study. The whole scheme of international ties remains a daunting puzzle that the new government has to...
by mediatimes | Jan 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
Media and Federalism Rodrigo Duterte’s advocacy for the shift to federalism gave him entry to the 2016 presidential campaign. But the issue of federalism itself did not figure in the decision of many voters to vote for him. For one, there is no one way of doing...
by mediatimes | Jan 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
Media and the War on Drugs RODRIGO DUTERTE’s resolve to rid the country of illegal drugs won him the votes as Filipinos cheered the tough-talking local politician to do what he had done as mayor of Davao City, which he proclaimed among the safest of cities in the...
