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 Reporting Duterteās China visit: Journalism or stenography? OBVIOUSLY MEANT to assuage public outrage over Chinese aggression in the West Philippine Sea, MalacaƱang announced that during his fifth visit to China, President Rodrigo Duterte would ask President Xi Jinping to recognize the UN Arbitral Tribunalās ruling in favor of the Philippines. But the visit began and ended... Speak Truth to Power, Keep Power in Check RODRIGO R. Duterteās presidency has altered and controlled the public discourse so radically in its favor in ways rude and bold. One tragic result: it has restricted and narrowed the celebrated freedom of the Philippine press and the peopleās cherished right to know. In his first 22 months in... The DOT Accreditation System: A Form of Prior Restraint THE DEPARTMENT of Tourism (DOT), through its recently issued Media Accreditation Guidelines for the coverage of Boracay once it is closed to tourists, is in effect putting in place a system of selecting which media can report on Boracay.Ā Such a system can allow access only to journalists and... Press Solidarity: Responding to Restrictive Policies and Reclaiming Access to Vital Police Information THE DUTERTE regime has systematically taken steps to weaken the press, destroy its credibility and erode its capacity to report and to provide citizens with the information they need to make sense of what’s happening around them. From his exalted office, the president has insulted and treated with... The Press and Public Officials: Apart Because Different PERHAPS, THEĀ public sees people in the news as all cut from the same cloth. Whether theyāre working journalists, or elected or appointed to public office, the public stage they occupy separates them from the rest of the people and the latter seldom see any difference between them. This... « Previous12
