Arroyo redux?

IN 2010 the election to the Presidency of Benigno S. Aquino III  seemed to herald, if not the coming of a free expression regime, at least the promise of one. It wasn’t only because Aquino had sworn during his campaign for the Presidency to support a freedom of information (FOI) bill and to protect human rights. It was also because, the state of press freedom and free expression being so bad during the final years in which Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was in power, with a change of administration it could only have been better.