Malacañang said the media in the country continues to be alert and vibrant in reporting about the government and the actions of officials as it reiterated that it respects press freedom and free speech.
Malacañang said the media in the country continues to be alert and vibrant in reporting about the government and the actions of officials as it reiterated that it respects press freedom and free speech.Presidential spokesman Harry Roque made the statement after the Social Weather Stations July 2020 National Mobile Phone Survey showed that 51 percent of Filipinos believe that it is now dangerous to print or broadcast anything critical about the government even if it is the truth.
“The Duterte administration continues to respect the freedom of the speech and the freedom of the press in the country. No single libel case has been filed by President Duterte against the political opposition,” he said. Roque said that the result of the survey turned out that way because the study was conducted at the time when the public was awaiting the fate of ABS-CBN’s franchise renewal.
“Surveys, as we often said, reflect the opinions of the respondents at the time the data were gathered,” he said.
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