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EXIGERE Marcos Jr, who’s next?
BY KAYE ANN JOY B. CASTRO
Federico Gempesaw, Renato Blanco, Percy Lapid–
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who’s next?
It’s as if journalists and members of the media sign up for a lotto draw, awaiting their misfortune. This is the current state of press freedom in the Philippines: press killings.
Four months into another Marcos administration and three brutal deaths of journalists were already witnessed. In a broad daylight in June, broadcaster Federico ‘Ding’ Gempesaw was shot and killed in front of his home. September came and another broadcaster–Renato Blanco–was slain, fatally stabbed to death. Only weeks in between, on an evening in October when veteran broadcaster Percy Lapid was gunned down inside his vehicle.
Evidently, the fundamental right to seek and disseminate the truth through a free press is still under attack, and the change we hoped for from the previous Duterte administration was punctually let down by Marcos Jr.’s first term.
Why should we call for justice? Press freedom is
