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Online news commentator shot dead in Sorsogon

CMFR/PHILIPPINES — Two men on a motorcycle shot dead an online news commentator in Sorsogon City on 14 September 2020. Sorsogon is 529 kilometers south of Manila. Jobert “Polpog” Bercasio of Balangibog Online News TV was himself on his motorcycle along Brgy. Cabid-an in Sorsogon when the suspects shot...

Disbarred lawyer threatens editor in Iloilo City

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A former Iloilo City councilor and disbarred lawyer threatened to “beat up” an editor over a news post about the former’s disbarment. Iloilo City is 655 kilometers south of Manila. Plaridel Nava sent a Facebook message to Daily Guardian editor Francis Allan Angelo threatening to beat him...

Alternative news orgs file complaints vs state agents before CHR

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – Alternative media organizations on 30 July 2020 filed before the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) complaints against state agents for violating the Constitutional guarantees of press freedom and freedom of information. Altermidya- People’s Alternative Media Network and its members Bulatlat, Kodao, and Pinoy Weekly called on CHR...

PTFoMS tags media attack as “fake news”

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – Presidential Task Force for Media Security (PTFoMS) Executive Director Joel Sy Egco in a Facebook post published on 28 July 2020 took a swipe at the media organizations that carried the news about the seizure of more than a thousand copies of Pinoy Weekly magazine in a...

Police confiscate copies of alternative magazine in Bulacan

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – Police confiscated issues of Pinoy Weekly magazine during a raid in Pandi Bulacan on 26 July 2020 claiming that the publication is illegal and carries anti-government propaganda. Bulacan is 43 kilometers north of Manila. According to Pinoy Weekly, members of the Pandi police headed by PCPT Jun...

Funeral wreaths sent to ABS-CBN station in CDO

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – Unidentified persons sent three funeral wreaths to the ABS-CBN station in Cagayan de Oro on 25 July 2020 as different groups in the city held a protest against the non-renewal of ABS-CBN’s franchise. Cagayan de Oro is 1,385 kilometers south of Manila. On May 6, the National...

Press Freedom’s Ally

THE DENIAL by the House of Representatives of ABS-CBN’s application for the renewal of its franchise is but one more step in the return of authoritarian rule and the destruction of the Republic that President Rodrigo Duterte and his police and military cohorts have been orchestrating since day one...

NTC orders shutdown of ABS-CBN’s Sky Direct, TV Plus channels

CMFR/PHILIPPINES — The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) ordered Sky Cable Corporation’s cable satellite dish service, Sky Direct; and ABS-CBN TV Plus digital broadcast channels, to stop operations on 30 June 2020. Sky Cable Corporation is an affiliate of the ABS-CBN Corporation. The NTC previously ordered the shutdown of ABS-CBN...

Palace Spokesperson berates reporter during live broadcast

CMFR/PHILIPPINES — Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque berated a reporter during a televised media briefing for her supposedly misleading report on his statement on mass testing as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic. During a May 19 press briefing, Roque accused CNN reporter Triciah Terada of failing to report accurately...

Radio station in Nueva Ecija harassed by local government

CMFR/PHILIPPINES — Radyo Natin Guimba (RNG) in Nueva Ecija and its reporters have been receiving threats and other forms of harassment from the local government according to the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP). Nueva Ecija is 131 kilometers south of Manila. In a statement, NUJP said...

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