Tuesday, March 08, 2005 (Philippines)

Participants to the annual Kaamulan street dancing activity swing and sway to the native beat in this file photo. (Contributed photo) LOCAL media practitioners slammed Monday the military's proposal to ban media from interviewing suspected terrorists. Senator Aquilino Pimentel Jr. believes the proposal to make media interviews with terrorists a crime as part of the anti-terrorism act will not prosper as it would be a form of prior censorship which is specifically prohibited by the Constitution. [full story]