Archive for July, 2012
Victories on two fronts
We recently marked two victories in our continued struggle for a truly free Philippine press. We hail the successful battle waged by our colleagues in the RMN-Davao Employees’ Union who went on strike and, within only eight days, forced management to negotiate with them and sign a new collective bargaining agreement. We also applaud the [...]
Justice, Not Political Expediency
Include Norie Unas in the list of Ampatuan massacre suspects Now that the Pasay Regional Trial Court has granted bail to former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for the supposedly non-bailable case of electoral sabotage, it is time the Department of Justice reject once and for all the devil’s bargain it made with what it once touted as [...]
ALERT: ABS-CBN Butuan City reporters receive threat
Two provincial reporters of TV station ABS-CBN have reported receiving threats they believe are connected to their coverage of illegal logging. Rodge Cultura said a boy handed him an envelope containing a single bullet Sunday morning, July 29, outside the ABS-CBN office in Butuan City. Cultura said the boy walked away after handing the envelope. [...]
On the President’s whine and bash routine
It was all too easy to lose sight of the bigger picture last Friday when President Benigno Aquino III again went into a whine and bash routine against his favorite whipping boy, the media. Even the media saw only Mr. Aquino’s personal tirade against Noli de Castro at the silver anniversary of TV Patrol. We [...]
LIBEL ALERT: Mediaman cleared from libel suit
29 June 2012: City Prosecutor’s Office in General Santos dismissed the libel suit filed against freelance journalist Edwin Espejo by Mohammad “Bong” Aquia, former head of the Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group in Central Mindanao. The case was filed on February 2012 on the basis that the articles written online by Espejo in MindaNews and Asian Correspondent [...]