Democracy watchdogs worry over Philippine broadcaster shutdown
ABS-CBN network headquarters in Quezon City. The broadcaster has been ordered off the air over a stalled operating licence renewal. – AFP pic, May 6, 2020.
THE shutting down of the Philippines’ top broadcaster crosses a dangerous line in eroding the nation’s democracy and sends a warning to those who risk angering President Rodrigo Duterte, watchdogs said. Since rising to power in 2016, Duterte has steadily tightened his grip on the nation’s key institutions and jailed or sidelined his loudest detractors, but until now his worst threats against critical media had not been fully realised.
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