“It is clear that the goal of this administration is not only to shut down ABS-CBN but to send a message throughout the media industry.”
NTC’s shutdown of Sky Direct, TV Plus to affect 55 M Filipinos
Tags: ABS-CBN
6 questions on Rappler, cyberlibel and press freedom
The issue here goes beyond Rappler as other dominant and alternative news media organizations are also under attack. Ressa only becomes a convenient target because of her high profile. That’s what she has in common with ABS-CBN which is a leading network. The chilling effect becomes clear by targeting both of them.
Return-to-work, regularization of contractuals on hold with ABS-CBN franchise renewal
Aside from the complainants, the NLRC decision bolstered the rest of the contractual ABS-CBN workers’ demands for regularization.
Speak against darkness
While it is true that ordinary citizens are expected to maintain civility, speaking out should not be criminalized. We are being punished for demanding from government what it should have been doing in the midst of a health crisis.
Seeing red
By DEE AYROSO
Offline protests condemn shutdown of ABS-CBN
“Shrinking democratic space through the militarizing of the pandemic response as well as not closing the largest media network’s airwaves is a direct affront to civil liberties.”
Veteran journalists urge the public to defend press freedom, democratic rights
“Di ko akalain na ang kalayaan na na-achieve natin noong 1986 ay manganganib uli ngayon.” (I did not expect that the freedom we had achieved in 1986 would be threatened once again.)
Shining 2
By DEE AYROSO
Makabayan urges Congress to renew ABS-CBN franchise
“It is high time that Congress finally hear and approve the franchise of ABS-CBN to undo the damage and attack on press freedom, freedom of expression and freedom of information perpetrated by Malacañang.”
In shutting down ABS-CBN, lawyers say NTC bypassed Congress
“The NTC’s Order has preempted Congressional action in this area exclusively reserved to it by the Constitution and is an exercise of discretion that gravely upsets the constitutional architecture and design.”
Shut down? Speak up!
By TILDE ACUÑA