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Monday, February 27, 2006
Seares: Not our concern?
By Pachico A. Seares
News Sense
WE MAY not have anything to worry about government crackdown on media. At least, not those in the provinces or not big or pesky enough to matter.
Weren’t we in community media spared from brutish martial law censors who mangled journalism rules and killed free press?
Proclamation 1017 speaks only of a “certain segment of the national media” that “recklessly aided and abetted” the “conspiracy” to topple the Government.
It must be some comfort. Media conspirators, according to the accusers, include only a part of the national press. It’s only some of the guys in Manila, not us.
A seductive thought.
Embracing that, we locals can sit back and watch the sound and rage, the fear and confusion of “national” journalists who don’t know how Government will hit them and where.
Either or.
Not that simple and easy though.
Either the press is free or not. It cannot be free in the provinces and yet stifled in Manila.
The same Proclamation 1017 that can ransack the office of an obscure anti-Gloria paper in Manila can silence Cebu’s fire-eating, “we-are-truly-No. 1” broadcast stars.
News organizations in the capital rely on news feeds from countryside media, and vice versa. Isolationism is jurassic.
I don’t see how armed police peering over the work of journalists anywhere cannot set off the same rage among other journalists everywhere else.
Our freaking business too, don’t you think?
For Bisaya stories from Cebu. Click here. (February 27, 2006 issue)
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