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FMFA’s statement on the Office of the Solicitor General’s quo warranto complaint against ABS-CBN

FREEDOM FOR Media, Freedom for All (FMFA), a national coalition of media-oriented organizations, calls for a collective front that enjoins not just journalists and news organizations, but Filipinos who believe that a democracy cannot flourish without a free and autonomous press. The attempt to close down ABS-CBN is a...

Center for Media Freedom & Responsibility: Statement on Calida’s Quo Warranto

THE CENTER for Media Freedom & Responsibility (CMFR) joins the call for clarity on the legal questions arising from the latest effort to undermine media freedom: Does quo warranto apply to invalidating the franchise granted to ABS-CBN? Is it appropriate for the Solicitor General to even raise the renewal...

STATEMENT: Conviction of accused in the court is a good sign; but it hardly ends impunity

A JUST verdict after the long trial of the accused in the Ampatuan Massacre is a welcome outcome, but it hardly signals the end of the pattern of impunity which weighs down the course of justice in the country. The tragedy on November 23, 2009 took away the lives...

Weapons of Partisanship, Instruments of Abuse

THE PHILIPPINE National Police (PNP) has filed before the Department of Justice (DOJ) charges of sedition and obstruction of justice, among other offenses, against members of the opposition, lawyers, priests and officials of the Catholic Church, and the vice president of the Philippines. If these reach the courts, the...

DANGEROUS AND UNNECESSARY

IF PASSED INTO LAW, Senate Bill Number 9, the “Anti-False Content Act” would not only abridge free expression and press freedom that is protected by Article III Section 4 of the Constitution. As law, it will further lower the bar of democratic discourse by limiting the online discussion of...

Gov’t, Media Can’t Play Fast, Loose with Due Process and Rule of Law

Statement of Journalists and Media Organizations on List of Alleged “Narco Politicians” 7 March 2019 WE, JOURNALISTS AND MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS, express grave concern about the likely breach of professional ethics and adverse legal implications of the publication and broadcast of the Duterte Administration’s list of public officials allegedly involved...

Egco and “Irresponsible Journalism”

PRESIDENTIAL COMMUNICATIONS Operations Office (PCOO) Undersecretary Joel Egco, who is also Executive Director of the Presidential Task Force on Media Security, said during a meeting with the Filipino community during its “Press Freedom Caravan” in Brussels, Belgium that “irresponsible journalism” is to blame for the negative reports about the...

An Attack on One is an Attack on All

THE CENTER for Media Freedom and Responsibility condemns the arrest of Rappler CEO and Executive Editor Maria Ressa on cyber libel charges filed several years after the alleged offense was supposedly committed, and before the enactment of the Cyber Crime Prevention Act. The arrest was also made after office...

Against Despotism

Statement of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility on the issuance of a warrant of arrest against Rappler CEO and Executive Editor Maria Ressa THE WARRANT of arrest issued against Rappler CEO and Executive Editor Maria Ressa continues the Duterte regime’s persecution of media organizations critical...

The Danish Ambassador on the Philippine Press

THE CENTER for Media Freedom & Responsibility (CMFR) takes exception to the statements of Denmark’s ambassador to the Philippines Jan Top Christensen regarding the Philippine media’s coverage of the government. Speaking in a multi-stakeholder consultation forum on journalists’ safety organized by the Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication (AIJC)...