Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:17:38 +0000
MANILA, Philippines -In the latest episode of Misconsensus : The Politics of Things shared on Facebook and YouTube, former Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile demonstrated his unique stand on certain issues.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 15:28:17 +0000
Journalists who are impartial, apolitical, and truthful in reporting have nothing to fear, not even if they have to face 10 presidents like Rodrigo Duterte, former broadcast journalist Jiggy Manicad, now a senatorial candidate, said Tuesday.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 23:22:14 +0000
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) on Monday said the government’s persecution of news website Rappler and its CEO, Maria Ressa, underscored the urgent need to decriminalize libel.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 01:11:50 +0000
Journalist and Rappler CEO Maria Ressa, who was arrested on a libel complaint, accused President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration of acting like a dictatorship and using the law as a weapon to muzzle dissent.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 07:51:47 +0000
This was what Wilfredo Keng, the businessman who filed a complaint against Rappler chief executive Maria Ressa, said on Friday amid the uproar on Ressa’s arrest over a cyberlibel charge
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:11:59 +0000
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has denied claims that the arrest of Rappler chief executive Maria Ressa is an attack against press freedom.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:10:48 +0000
A free press helps guard government institutions, and attempts to silence and intimidate watchdogs may have a chilling effect on press freedom, Sen. Grace Poe warned.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 06:13:34 +0000
The arrest of Rappler executive director Maria Ressa is a big blow to press freedom, several senators said Thursday.
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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 05:29:02 +0000
The “chilling effect” of criminalizing journalism, Binay said, should never be helplessly accepted as a “convenient necessity to silence those who speak against the status quo.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 16:00:13 +0000
Vice President Leni Robredo on Wednesday slammed as “a big blow to press freedom” the arrest of Rappler’s chief executive Maria Ressa over a cyberlibel case.
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