I’ve been trying to access Manolo’s blog for two days; the blog site opens, there it is; everything’s there; but i can’t open any of the blog posts. Anyway, here’s the url
we’ll keep trying.
Okay, i tried again two minutes ago; apparently others are able to access it because five minutes ago the comments link said “be the first to comment”; now it says “2comments”.
so…. lemme figure this out (pinapahirapan ako!)
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Last Sunday (March 9), a Manila Bulletin article entitled “President urged to name women to 2 Comelec vacancies” (writer unknown) was single-sourced. Only Sen. Loren Legarda was quoted throughout the article as she called on President Arroyo to appoint female election commissioners for a more gender-balanced COMELEC that would help make the results of the 2010 elections more credible. The article sounded like a press release in favor of Legarda. It would have been better if the reporter asked COMELEC or other government officials on the implications of having female commissioners.
The Philippine Journalist’s Code of Ethics tells journalists not to “suppress essential facts” or “distort the truth by omission or improper emphasis.” In addition, the PPI Expanded Code of Ethics states that journalists must “get a second, third or more sources…the expert source, the affected party, the prominent and the obscure, in the story.” In the article, the reporter omitted the most important facts and used a single news source.
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overworked server and some glitches because of, well, i dunno. but am overhauling the blog, so please bear with us.
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