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Press Release | August 2003

 

Press Release
August 17, 2003 

Sanlakas

 

 

Militant solon condemns media repression; tells media to be more vigilant

 

 

Arrogance confirmed. 

Militant congressman JV Bautista of Sanlakas today expressed his outright disapproval over President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s act of harassing and intimidating GMA 7 reporter Tina-Panganiban Perez due to the latter’s alleged connection with Makati mutiny.

Rep. Bautista, who stood in defense of Panganiban-Perez said, “this act of the President simply confirmed the allegation of the mutineers that she was indeed arrogant.” 

“The Constitution is clear when it says that no law shall be passed abridging the freedom of the press. And the declaration of the state of rebellion should not be deemed over and above that Constitutional guarantee,” the militant solon added.

“We’re right ever since when we said that under the state of rebellion, anyone could be accused of abetting rebellion. Now, even the media is reaping the unjustness of that unconstitutional palace directive,” Bautista stressed.
“If the government can do this to the media, what more to the ordinary people?” he asked. 

UNBELIEVABLE


Bautista also slammed deputy spokesperson Ricardo Saludo’s statement that the government is not engaged in “spying on the media or in the harassment of reporters in the conduct of their legitimate work.”

“It is the President herself who claimed that she had assets who saw Panganiban-Perez with Honasan during the period of mutiny in Makati. If that is not spying, what else should we call that? It’s hard to believe that Panganiban-Perez was just “encountered by chance by intelligence assets,” he explained.

NOT THE ROLE OF MEDIA

Bautista also said that GMA certainly has no right to dictate the media about the manner of their reporting.

He added, “These mediamen are professionals and would not be in that kind of profession for nothing.”

“It is not the role of media to make the government appear and look good, it is the role of the PR men of Malacañang. If in the eyes of Malacañang, media is not reporting good, poking a knife on their news would be the worst thing to suppress the truth,” Bautista asserted.

Lastly, Bautista told media that it must be more vigilant in defending their profession and must not be swayed by any forms of state intimidation and harassment.
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