Aquino won’t stop tirade vs media
By TJ Burgonio
It won’t be the last of President Benigno Aquino’s tirade against the media.

It won’t be the last of President Benigno Aquino’s tirade against the media.

The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) has called on the media not to remain silent on President Benigno Aquino III’s criticisms and not to take it sitting down “when he deigns to tell us how to go about our work and what to put into it.”

ABS-CBN News and Public Affairs is standing by its main anchor, former Vice President Noli de Castro.

Why greet viewers a “Magandang gabi, bayan (Good evening, nation)” when you’re dishing out bad news? President Benigno Aquino III on Friday night lashed out at executives, producers and staff of ABS-CBN’s “TV Patrol” for highlighting the negative in their early evening news program during the show’s silver anniversary celebration at the Manila Hotel.
I mourn the passing on of my friend and contemporary, Angelo Castro Jr., broadcaster par excellence.
ABS-CBN’s News and Current Affairs department yesterday defended its TV Patrol news, which includes Korina Sanchez among its anchors, against complaints that it was biased against Vice President Jejomar Binay. The report was “legitimate,” said the network in response to comments that its report on the vice president’s plan to move his office to the [...]