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		<title>Sidebar: FOI bill sponsors were among the absentees</title>
		<link>http://www.eyeonethics.org/2010/06/10/sidebar-foi-bill-sponsors-were-among-the-absentees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only 128 out of the 267 representatives in the Lower House attended the June 4 session. The rest had taken an early vacation or were busy in their new posts—or deliberately stayed away to kill the FOI bill. 
The following are the representatives who were either absent or did not respond to the roll call [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let the press do its job in Thailand</title>
		<link>http://www.eyeonethics.org/2010/05/21/let-the-press-do-its-job-in-thailand/</link>
		<comments>http://www.eyeonethics.org/2010/05/21/let-the-press-do-its-job-in-thailand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 03:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHILIPPINES—The Manila-based Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) supports the call of media advocacy groups and other concerned sectors to spare media organizations and journalists from threats and attacks while covering the clashes between Thailand&#8217;s security forces and protesters. 
Violence related to the occupation of portions of Central Bangkok by the Red Shirt partisans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEAPA Alert: Journalist killed, TV station torched, reporters threatened as Thai government moves against Red Shirts</title>
		<link>http://www.eyeonethics.org/2010/05/20/seapa-alert-journalist-killed-tv-station-torched-reporters-threatened-as-thai-government-moves-against-red-shirts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 07:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) is concerned that media groups and individuals remain vulnerable, especially as tension rises and spreads in Thailand. Following government&#8217;s move to permanently dismantle the rally site in Bangkok, there are fears that protests will spread to outlying provinces, and along with them, a general hazard—and even hostility—towards the covering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An ethical, not a legal issue</title>
		<link>http://www.eyeonethics.org/2010/04/19/an-ethical-not-a-legal-issue/</link>
		<comments>http://www.eyeonethics.org/2010/04/19/an-ethical-not-a-legal-issue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 07:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.eyeonethics.org/?p=161</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) noted in its monitoring of the news coverage of the 2010 campaign and elections that despite the early preparations and efforts to improve the quality of reporting, the Philippine press still has the tendency to prioritize the exclusive and the sensational over the significant to the detriment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sidebar: 2010 Elections—Same old, same old, but not quite</title>
		<link>http://www.eyeonethics.org/2010/02/23/sidebar-2010-elections%e2%80%94same-old-same-old-but-not-quite/</link>
		<comments>http://www.eyeonethics.org/2010/02/23/sidebar-2010-elections%e2%80%94same-old-same-old-but-not-quite/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As in the 2004 and 2007 elections, corruption, governance, and human rights issues should be among the lead issues in the 2010 elections. But some things make this year’s polls different from the previous elections.

2010 will be the first ever automated ballot nationwide. But serious controversies have hounded the Commission on Elections and Smartmatic International [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing harm</title>
		<link>http://www.eyeonethics.org/2009/12/21/doing-harm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.eyeonethics.org/2009/12/21/doing-harm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility
COMMISSION on Human Rights Chair Leila de Lima has rightly reminded the media that Andal Ampatuan Jr., no matter how strong the evidence against him may be, still has rights, among them the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty. The clan that spawned him may not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worse than the Disease</title>
		<link>http://www.eyeonethics.org/2009/03/13/worse-than-the-disease/</link>
		<comments>http://www.eyeonethics.org/2009/03/13/worse-than-the-disease/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A “right of reply” bill has been approved by the Philippine House of Representatives; a less repressive version is pending in the Philippine Senate. Nearly all Philippine media groups, including the major broadsheets and broadcast networks, are opposed to it.
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No one among those opposed to the Right of Reply bill on principle will argue that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presence of Malice</title>
		<link>http://www.eyeonethics.org/2009/03/13/presence-of-malice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Statement of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) on the Right of Reply Bills
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Senator Aquilino Pimentel Jr.’s sponsorship of the Senate version of the Right of Reply bill has moved some media colleagues to assume absence of malice in its intentions, although they don’t seem to have given Rep. Monico Puentevella, the main [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How journalists can help enhance religious tolerance</title>
		<link>http://www.eyeonethics.org/2008/12/19/how-journalists-can-help-enhance-religious-tolerance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.eyeonethics.org/2008/12/19/how-journalists-can-help-enhance-religious-tolerance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warief Djajanto Basorie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Basorie teaches journalism at the Dr. Soetomo Press Institute (Lembaga Pers Dr. Soetomo, LPDS) in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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The Maluku islands and Central Sulawesi, two provinces in Eastern Indonesia, were hotbeds of religious conflict from 1999 to 2004. Some sections of the Indonesian press have been partly blamed for fanning communal violence between Muslims and Christians [...]]]></description>
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