By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO Bulatlat MANILA — Another Filipino journalist has been killed, the latest in a series of murders that prompted a media group to say that “impunity is alive and well in the Philippines.” Radio commentator Crispin Perez, 66, was shot dead on Friday outside his home in San Jose City, Occidental…
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Right of Reply Bill Part of Larger Scheme – Media Groups
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat MANILA — The Right of Reply Bill had been scheduled for deliberation, if not passage, on Wednesday at the House of Representatives, one of the measures that legislators were supposed to be rushing for approval before Congress went on recess beginning June 5. That the legislators adjourned their session on…
Anti-Wiretapping Suit Vs. Cheche Lazaro ‘Absurd and Dangerous’
Below is a statement of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) on the Anti-Wiretapping suit against Cecilia “Cheche” Lazaro. ABSURD AND DANGEROUS THE SUIT against Cecilia “Cheche” Lazaro alleging that she wire-tapped her own phone conversation with the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) Vice President for Public Relations and Communications is as dangerous…
Journalists Pay Tribute to Slain Colleagues
Members of the media paid tribute to their slain colleagues, December 10, at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani. BY BULATLAT Members of the media paid tribute to their slain colleagues, December 10, at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani. The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) said 98 journalists have been killed since 1986,…
NUJP: Westmincom Biodata Requirement Violates Press Freedom
BY BULATLAT The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines has expressed outrage at the sudden requirement by Maj. Eugene Batara, spokesman of the military’s Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom), for journalists to fill up biodata forms before they can be accredited for coverage. “The biodata is not only an invasion of privacy, it is a…
A Class Suit for Press Freedom
Police and Justice Department officials face a P10 million class suit filed by over a hundred journalists and three media organizations for the illegal arrest of their colleagues after the Manila Pen siege by rebel soldiers November last year and the succeeding threats thereof. By Dabet Castañeda Bulatlat Vol VIII. No. 1, February 3-9, 2008…