By Luis V. Teodoro Professor of Journalism College of Mass Communication University of the Philippines Member, Board of Advisers, Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (This is a talk Prof. Teodoro delivered at the Press Freedom and Philippine Law Roundtable discussion sponsored by CMFR on December 5, 2006. The book Limited Protection: Press Freedom and [...]
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Dismantling the culture of impunity
Posted in Papers and Speeches on December 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Against Technicism
Posted in Papers and Speeches on April 24, 2005 | 5 Comments »
(Address delivered during the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication Commencement Exercises, April 24, 2005.) If all roads once led to Rome, today all roads lead to the homeland of another empire–into the very belly of the beast itself. Social Weather Stations tells us that more than a fifth of the population–20 percent, [...]
Welcome remarks at the book launching of Jose Ma. Sison’s books
Posted in Papers and Speeches on October 17, 2003 | Leave a Comment »
In behalf of co-sponsors Aklat ng Bayan Inc., Anak Pawis Party List, the All UP Academic Employees Union, CONTEND-UP and the Defend Sison Committee, I would like to welcome all of you to the launch of Jose Ma. Sison’s US Terrorism and War in the Philippines and the Pilipino version of Jose Ma. Sison and [...]
Philippines cracks down on backers of failed mutiny
Posted in Papers and Speeches on July 30, 2003 | 1 Comment »
(From Radio Singapore International‘s Interview with Prof. Teodoro) Philippine police have arrested an aide of deposed former president Joseph Estrada as the government vowed to pursue the political backers of a failed military mutiny and limit the damage to the country’s image and economy.
Journalist and teacher
Posted in Papers and Speeches, Vantage Point on May 19, 2003 | Leave a Comment »
Dean Armando J. Malay, who was a journalist for over 40 years, and who died last week at the age of 89, was one of the pioneering faculty members at the College of Mass Communication, then Institute of Mass Communication (IMC), of the University of the Philippines. In his May 16 to 18 wake at [...]
Forgetting, or Not Knowing: Media and Martial Law
Posted in Papers and Speeches on October 5, 2002 | Leave a Comment »
I didn’t quite now how to do this paper. The martial law period is a personal matter to me. It is not only because I was imprisoned for seven months, from October 1972 to May 1973. It is also because of the many people I knew, some of them among the brightest and best sons [...]
People’s Issues and Investigative Journalism
Posted in Papers and Speeches on July 6, 2002 | 2 Comments »
My assignment this afternoon is investigative journalism and people’s issues. Everyone of us here knows what the standards of investigative journalism are, and are familiar with that form. I think what we need is a framework from which to appreciate what it can do for this country. I will therefore start with a review of [...]
The Bright Light of Selflessness
Posted in Papers and Speeches on January 29, 2000 | Leave a Comment »
I first met Pete Daroy in 1961, or some 39 years ago, during the Collegian editorship of Leonardo Quisumbing, now a justice of the Supreme Court. Pete was Leo’s literary editor. I was features editor. Jose Ma. Sison was research editor. Pete was from a town in Samar which he insisted had never heard of [...]
