For many media groups, an attack on one is an attack on all. Several media groups rallied behind ABS-CBN after the National Telecommunications Commission ordered its closure on Tuesday, May 5, 2020. CourageON StandWithABSCBN DefendPressFreedom
We in the media have been foregoing our own safety to be able to cover the COVID-19 crisis so that valuable information can be disseminated. For the government to cancel the franchise of ABS-CBN in the middle of this crisis is a wanton disregard for the interest of the public,” PCP said.The D&D pointed out that this move cannot be taken apart from the “wider context of the Duterte administration’s war on the media.
Aside from this, other news groups like Rappler, Inquirer, VERA Files, and the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism have been on the receiving end of various forms of attacks against the press. On multiple occasions, President Rodrigo Duterte and other members of his administration have also red-tagged alternative news groups.
“If the nation will allow an unjust ABS-CBN shutdown to stand, we should all expect increased media harassment, more widespread and more malevolent disinformation, worse obscenities committed against journalism in the name of 'the law,'” D&D said. “The move is clearly a case of political harassment against a pillar of Philippine democracy that employs thousands of Filipinos whose livelihoods are now at risk with the order,” FOCAP added.
The group urged Congress to independently act on pending measures seeking to renew ABS-CBN's franchise.
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