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#Bulatlat20: Reaffirming truth-telling, defending press freedom
Bulatlat‘s commitment to human rights reporting and how it has remained true to truthtelling.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Bulatlat.
As an alternative media, it was expected to actively report on the worsening extrajudicial killings – at least one activist killed per week – and other forms of human rights violations under a bloody counterinsurgency campaign spearheaded by the now-convicted former General Jovito Palparan Jr.
While these were covered by
Bulatlat, human rights stories seldom hogged the headlines in the dominant media. This situation was similar to the early days of the late President Corazon Aquino, where, in the guise of upholding “news values” and blindly working on the narrative that “democracy” has been restored, human rights violations were no longer considered newsworthy.
Retired Supreme Court justice Antonio Carpio says the social media posts of army general Antonio Parlade Jr are ‘clear threats’ against members of the free press
By TED CORDERO, GMA News
Published February 6, 2021 3:39pm Retired Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio and his co-petitioners cited Southern Luzon Command (Solcom) chief Lieutenant General Antonio Parlade Jr.’s threat against a justice beat reporter in their latest filing before the SC to oppose the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020. In a manifestation submitted to the high court, Carpio’s group said that a social media account under the name “Antonio Parlade” had published a post directed against Inquirer.net’s Tetch Torres-Tupas claiming that her story on the two members of the Aeta community seeking help from the SC after being allegedly tortured by state forces was “FAKE.”