Bull ang "media guidelines" ng Palasyo. No to media censorship.
It is now a crime to “hurt other persons’ feelings” under the Arroyo government.
Or so Malacañang yesterday declared even as it rejoiced over the filing by the police of charges of inciting to sedition against Ninez Cacho-Olivares, publisher and editor-in-chief of The Daily Tribune, and two of this newspaper’s columnists for allegedly urging the people to rebel against President Arroyo and oust her from power.
Media czar Ignacio Bunye, at the same time and in a veiled threat to the Philippine media, said those whom he implicitly called as irresponsible members of the press will not also be spared by the law.
“Those responsible journalists need not worry. We have the guidelines to follow. And it would be good if all of our friends in the media would review the provisions so we would not commit the mistake of hurting other persons’ feelings and (crossing) that line wherein we are already violating the rule of law,” Bunye stressed during two radio interviews with RMN-dzXL and dzRB Radyo ng Bayan.
The Malacañang media czar, also the concurrent Press secretary and Arroyo spokesman, implied that the move made last Friday by the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group and the Philippine National Police (PNP) to file the criminal charges against Olivares and the two Tribune columnists
— Ike Seneres and Herman Tiu Laurel — before the Department of Justice (DoJ) has “basis” because they had not been “responsible” journalists.
“We have to stress that our people, all of us have an obligation to follow the rule of law. And ... again, the existing laws have clear provisions on sedition, rebellion, inciting to sedition, inciting to rebellion,” Bunye said.
The presidential spokesman did not say what the basis of the charges against Olivares and the two columnists was.
Neither did Bunye say what makes for responsible journalism.
For some of the things Erap has done in the past, he's never been this reckless in assaulting our free speech, free assembly and free press right.
And this is not the first time the ARroyo admin has harassed the media.
UPDATE: Anyway, I used to only read the Tribune on the Internet, but this time, I will be buying the Tribune paper every chance I get as a show of solidarity for the beleaguered paper.
It's the best way I can help the paper survive Arroyo.
UPDATE: here's the deal: the arroyo admin has nothing to fear from a small newspaper with little circulation like the tribune (or any newspaper for that matter) kung wala silang ginagawang mali o kung walang tinatago ang administration na ito.
kung legitimate talaga ang admin na ito, they have nothing to worry about from the effin tribune.
it only becomes problematic kung serious talaga ang legitimacy issues ng admin na ito.
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