We will not surrender our freedomsToday, Independence Day, we renew our pledge to serve the people, to continue speaking truth to power, and to guard and defend freedom of the press and of expression from all threats.Read More Covering the PandemicRead more Covering the CoViD-19 Pandemic Citizen Calls Out Media’s Penchant for President’s Rant DURING A speech in Iloilo on June 20, President Rodrigo Duterte lambasted detained Senator Leila De Lima for criticizing his controversial kiss with a Filipina overseas worker in South Korea earlier this month. Duterte did not name the senator, but he alluded to her in such a way... Hand in Sereno’s Ouster? Citizen Monitor Recalls What the President Said PATRICIO DIAZ sent a letter to the editor of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, which the paper published on May 21 (“What the President Said”). Responding to the president’s statement that he did not have anything to do with the removal of Maria Lourdes Sereno from her position as...
