We at Rappler stand with ABS-CBN. It is as much our battle as it is theirs. DefendPressFreedom CourageON READ:
FIGHT CONTINUES. ABS-CBN workers and supporters hold a protest outside the House of Representatives to call for the approval of the network's franchise on July 9, 2020. Photo by Darren Langit/Rapplerrejected the franchise applicationAn overwhelming majority of the committee members voted against the network. Of the committee members present physically and through video call, 70 voted to reject the franchise application, 11 went for ABS-CBN, two inhibited, and one abstained.
A captured legislature did not hesitate to do the bidding of the President, who, since March 2017, has repeatedly threatened the network. He declared openly in December 2019, “I will see to it that you’re out.” That sealed the fate of ABS-CBN.We stand with the thousands of workers of ABS-CBN who will likely be laid off or terminated because members of Congress could not wait for the pandemic to ease before killing their franchise application.
When media operations are closed down on account of twisted facts and an inability to accept criticism, democracy’s death is hastened. Martial Law shut down ABS-CBN and other critical media in 1972. Illegal arrests were made, disappearances and deaths characterized the dictatorship. Learning from the lessons of history, journalists and other freedom-loving citizens must speak up because to be silent is to be complicit.
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