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| THE MEDIA |
| THE MADNESS OF WARLORDS |
| Even to a country accustomed to political murder and violence, what happened in the southern Muslim province of Maguindanao is stupefying |
| A STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE |
| The brutal, indiscriminate mass murder in Ampatuan town, in Maguindanao province, raises the ultimate challenge of conscience. It carries the culture of impunity at work in this country to such levels of horror that, if it remains unpunished for long, can send the nation into an inexorable descent toward absolute dehumanization |
| A NATIONAL CLUB OF COWARDS |
| Could there be a greater mockery of freedom than the censorship of a monument to freedom by the very people who owe their existence to freedom? |
| A TRAVESTY OF DEMOCRACY |
| The plain reality is that neither textbook journalism nor textbook citizenship applies, let alone works, in the Philippine setting today |
| MURDER IS MIGHTIER THAN THE PEN |
Are you a professional killer interested in working in a sunny, tropical locale? Consider the Phlippines. There are plenty of contracts, risks are minimal and the chances of being caught are laughable. All you have to do is murder journalists. |
| 2006 IN REVIEW |
| Philippine year-end reviews are beginning to look so alike that perhaps soon, all that a correspondent will have to do is recycle the previous year's story, changing dates, names and casualty figures, substituting "landslide" for "mudslide" as necessary |
| A TWISTED SENSE OF EQUITY |
| Seantor Aquilino Pimentel wants a law that will oblige media, under threat of punishment, to give a right of reply to someone they have criticized. His belief that there is no law governing the behavior of the media is erroneous. |
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| POSITIVE NEWS |
| There's a feeling that newspapers owe it to the country to "accentuate the positive" and help attract the investment it sorely needs. |
| A GLOSSARY OF MEDIA CORRUPTION |
| AC-DC: attack-collect-defend-collect; Main Event: the act of distributing cash to the press. An insider's guide to the jargon used by corrupt media. |
