Media Ethics and the Mindanao Crisis in the Philippines
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Reporting on a culture other than one’s own presents tremendous challenges to a mass media practitioner, even to a recognized veteran in the profession. The task becomes even more daunting when the mass media practitioner is reporting on the day-to-day events of a long drawn-out conflict between majority and minority cultural communities. A mass media practitioner’s ethnic biases tend to surface, despite carefully chosen words and politically correct terms.













