A number of media advocacy, human rights and journalists’ organizations, as well as individual journalists and media practitioners and artists, have denounced the shutdown of television and radio network ABS-CBN as an attack on free expression and press freedom, and have urged the renewal of the franchise. Even the network’s vast entertainment audience is appalled…
Importanteng malaya tayong nakapagpapahayag, laluna sa panahon ng pandemya. Pero paano kung ang free expression, naka-lockdown din? The post ALAB Analysis: Free speech, naka-lockdown din? appeared first on AlterMidya.
STATEMENT Information is of utmost importance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Reporting the people’s grievances and demands is the solemn duty of the media; it is not a crime. The Guimba municipal council’s Sangguniang Bayan Resolution No. 52 s.2020 last May 11 empowered the mayor of the Nueva Ecija town to file criminal charges against radio…
By DANILO ARAÑA ARAO Remember May 5, 2020. On that day, ABS-CBN was forced to cease its operations in what media organizations label as the biggest attack on press freedom under the Duterte administration. As if this was not enough, it was also on this day Cornelio Pepino, a radio journalist based in Dumaguete City,…
JOINT STATEMENT Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade, Jr. of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF ELCAC) issued a statement Monday night claiming that “the ABS-CBN issue is about CPP [Communist Party of the Philippines] propaganda, so it falls under NTF ELCAC’s mandate.” The statement came after the brouhaha ignited by the…
As the easing of movement restrictions begins in some parts of the country, many Filipinos remain unsure about the real extent of the spread of COVID-19, and anxious about the government’s capacity to control it. Has the government used the past two months of a nationwide lockdown to not only “flatten the curve” (or stem…
Artists, groups join journalists in ‘Black Friday Protests’ vs. ABS-CBN Shutdown Like the previous Black Friday protests for press freedom that started last year, journalists, artists, and different groups came together to denounce the National Telecommunications Commission’s (NTC) order to shutdown ABS-CBN on May 5. Media and artist groups like Altermidya, Concerned Artists of the…
STATEMENT WHILE THE DUTERTE REGIME is failing to flatten the curve of the coronavirus’ spread, it is accelerating the curve of another mounting pandemic afflicting the nation – the pandemic of impunity. State forces are relentlessly pursuing attacks against the freedom of expression and of the press, mere days after mounting its most massive offensive…