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PERA’T PULITIKA 2010 CONSORTIUM

Political Ads of Candidates for President, February 9 to March 8, 2010

Source: Nielsen Media

Read more... | Posted Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Curious, creative contracts skirt law?

Top 3 bets use up half
of ad caps in 1st month

by Karol Anne M. Ilagan

JUST a mere month into the 90-day official campaign period, three presidential candidates have already used up more than half of their allowed ad airtime in the country’s two top networks.

This is even as data from media monitoring agency Nielsen Media indicate a relatively tempered ad-spending among the candidates, compared to the three months prior to the start of the campaign period.

Read more... | Posted Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
TV spins of top bets ‘not Bible truth’

Credible message, not volume
or value, makes good ‘pol ads’

by Karol M. Ilagan

HE has racked up nearly a billion pesos worth of TV ad spots, by network rate cards, in the last three months alone, but indications are that Nacionalista Party standard bearer Senator Manuel ‘Manny’ Villar Jr. can comfort himself that so far every centavo of that has been money well spent.

Read more... | Posted Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Pre-campaign clutter or spin central?

War on the air waves: 6 top
bets spend P1-B on ‘pol ads’

by Che de los Reyes

IF the law on campaign spending and political advertising were imposed before the official campaign period began last week, one presidential candidate would have already overspent in the past three months alone, even as he joins four others who would have exceeded the broadcast limit for TV.

Read more... | Posted Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Money & politics: The truth (not) well told

Poll expense reports of Erap, Arroyo,
wanna-be presidents shot full of holes

by Malou Mangahas

The popular perception is that running an election campaign has the potential of reducing a candidate to penury. Yet none of those who had served or today want to serve as president and vice president has come close to breaching the spending limit – or even to going shirtless and hungry – according to the separate “Statements of Electoral Contributions and Expenses” they had filed with the Commission on Elections (Comelec) over the last 12 years.

Read more... | Posted Monday, February 15th, 2010
The mysteries of money & politics

Top bets for president grow
wealth despite poll expenses

by Malou Mangahas

A BILLIONAIRE and four other millionaires lead the pack of those who want to serve as the15th president of the Philippines, all invariably swearing by an anti-poverty platform, and with some purposely harking on their poverty roots to spin and curry favor with majority of voters who are poor.

Read more... | Posted Sunday, February 7th, 2010
The economy

Misplaced government spending worsens woes

by Jaileen F. Jimeno and Karol Anne M. Ilagan

IF THIS country were a family, it is unhealthy, lacking in education and employment opportunities, is deep in debt and spends its limited budget on the wrong things.

This is despite the fact that the head of this household called the Philippines is someone whose expertise is economics.

Read more... | Posted Monday, August 4th, 2008
Sidebar

Aid for whom?

by Roel R. Landingin

THE DUAL nature of overseas development assistance (ODA) loans as both foreign aid and support for businesses in the lending country has taken an interesting, if confusing, turn in the case of loans and guarantees provided by the United Kingdom.

The NEDA lists the United Kingdom as the Philippines’ fourth biggest source of development finance, which comes in the form of guarantees provided by the UK’s Export Credit and Guarantee Department (ECGD).

Read more... | Posted Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Guilty! But special concessions for accused show flawed system

by Karen Tiongson-Mayrina

IT MAY take some time before the debates end in reaction to the much anticipated landmark ruling on the first criminal trial involving a former President of the Republic. On Wednesday, ousted president Joseph Ejercito Estrada was found guilty of plunder, but was acquitted on the perjury charge. His co-accused, son Jose ‘Jinggoy’ and lawyer [...]

Read more... | Posted Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

The ultimate verdict

by Harry Roque

The author is the director of the Institute of International Legal Studies at the University of the Philippines Law Center and is an assistant professor of law at UP Diliman.

In this issue

The ultimate verdict
Legal eagles… and eaglets
Guilty! But special concessions for accused show flawed system

Continuing coverage at the PCIJ blog

Erap mansions revisited
Revisiting the [...]

Read more... | Posted Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

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