Author: Luis V. Teodoro
Prof. Luis V. Teodoro is the chairperson of AlterMidya and former dean of the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication.
Controlling the media narrative
When asked their views on media and press freedom as well as free expression, politicians of the Philippine variety will swear to ...February 15, 2022Strike three for the U.S.
LAST week’s chaos at Afghanistan’s Kabul Airport was somewhat reminiscent of the scene in the former South Vietnamese capital of Saigon (now ...September 1, 2021Educating the electorate
The Philippine experience with elections should have taught everyone by now that voter education is crucial to the present and future of ...June 2, 2021Against Independence
PRESIDENT RODRIGO DUTERTE’S repeated threats against ABS-CBN are wrong for its pettiness and narrow, self-serving, and vindictive partisanship. But it is equally ...July 12, 2020The ABS-CBN Shutdown and Democracy
COMMUNICATION academics, media advocacy groups, human rights defenders, journalists’ organizations, artists and other professionals, and even some congressmen and senators have condemned ...July 6, 2020Information lockdown
A number of media advocacy, human rights and journalists’ organizations, as well as individual journalists and media practitioners and artists, have denounced ...May 26, 2020Press freedom is a global need
A sovereign citizenry’s right and duty of monitoring and evaluating public issues and problems, and of commenting on them and proposing alternative ...May 3, 2020Combating Disinformation: Beyond Truth-telling
TRUTH-telling and accuracy are the fundamental ethical and professional commitments of the alternative press and media in furtherance of the people’s right ...October 10, 2019Magna Carta: Another attempt at silencing critical journalists
AMID great fanfare in 2017, President Rodrigo Duterte signed an administrative order – his first – creating the Presidential Task Force on ...July 24, 2018Kodao, Rappler, Vera Files and the ongoing assault on the media
MUCH of public and corporate media attention has been focused on the cancellation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the ...February 9, 2018
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