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Saturday, June 04, 2005
Media denounces guv, capitol exec's ban on broadcasters
ANOTHER media group condemned what they call "an affront committed by Governor Niel Tupas" against three Bombo Radyo Iloilo broadcasters.
Iloilo Press Club Incorporated (IPC), in a statement Friday signed by its president German Gonzales, reacted after governor berated Bombo Capitol reporter Roger Gencianeo in front of other reporters during a press conference and threatened to throw his tape recorder.
Two days later, Provincial Administrator Manuel Mejorada declared Gencianeo and anchormen Rhoderick Tecson and Novie Guazo blacklisted from conducting interviews and attending other official press functions at the governor's office.
Tupas's action "was uncalled for and very unbecoming of the highest elected public official of the province," IPC Incorporated said.
Also, "Mejorada's declaration that upon orders of the Governor Gencianeo, Tecson and Guazo are blacklisted...tend to violate the right to freedom of expression and of the press."
"If the governor, or any public official for that matter, feels he is being unfairly treated by the media, he has all the legal remedies against them," IPC Incorporated added. "The Office of the Governor is a public property and it cannot deprive any individual, more particularly a media practitioner, from access to information especially if it is of public interest."
"We call on our colleagues not to tolerate such threat and insult to press freedom as this might send a wrong signal that we can be shabbily treated by anyone at any time," the media group added.
(June 4, 2005 issue)
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