Bulatlat‘s coverage of Hacienda Luisita has since been the benchmark of other agrarian reform stories it has covered through the years, its lessons and victories often told to the next generation of journalists to serve as a reminder that peasant stories also deserve the spotlight.
It was then that I knew that alternative news agencies like Bulatlat are instrumental in speaking truth to power. Without the shackles of corporate interest that filters and distorts news agenda, independent media is what is grounds us and directs us to reality.
In the context of community print publications, they should be strengthened not just by the people’s support but by ensuring that press freedom will be promoted and upheld by the government.
A journalist should be fair but he or she cannot be neutral. In the context of its role as the Fourth Estate, journalism is inherently critical and adversarial. A neutral observer cannot ask critical or hard questions, so in a sense the framing becomes “soft” if a journalist believes in neutrality. By DANILO ARAÑA ARAO…
Kung ang mensahe ni Heydarian ay hindi makita ang “independent” foreign policy dahil sa nangyari sa Reed Bank, iyon ang dapat na titulo ng artikulo.
Should the media report everything government officials do and say for the sake of that elusive concept called “objectivity”? Philippine practice suggests that that’s what most journalists assume — and that, no matter how erroneous, outrageous or potentially harmful the statements and actions of those sources may be, their responsibility ends with accurately quoting them.…
Ni MARK ANGELES Isang mapagpalayang gabi, mga petmalung kababayan, Mga kapwa ko mamamahayag at artista ng bayan. Maraming bagay tayong dapat pag-usapan Tungkol sa nasagap kong bulung-bulungan (Bukod sa ang Benham Rise ay bahagi na ng 9-dash line): Ang katotohanan at katarungan Nasa mahaba nang listahan ng balak ipatukhang Ng kulugong hari sa Malakanyang. Karaniwang…
Tiglao is what he has been accusing people of: a liar and a propagandist.
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Bulatlat.com MANILA — Danilo Araña Arao, teacher of journalism in UP College of Mass Communications, is set to launch three books of essays, written in Filipino, on August 16 (Thursday), 2 p.m. at the auditorium of the College of Mass Communication (CMC), University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman, Quezon City. The books are titled “Kon(tra)teksto:…
By Igal Jada P. San Andres Bulatlat.com “Why do you want to study abroad?” That question was posed to me during an interview for a scholarship December of last year. I had thought of my answer beforehand, so I said, “I want to be part of the change in the realm of Philippine journalism.” This…