Media access and the right to know
Media access and the right to know
VANTAGE POINT By Luis V. Teodoro
The accreditation of bloggers that Marcos Junior’s choice for Press Secretary (she will also head the Presidential Communication Operations Office) is planning is not new. It was also considered by her predecessor, but abandoned because of problems over which bloggers would join the Malacañang Press Corps in covering the President.
There are thousands of bloggers who report and comment on public events and issues, but only a few can be so accredited. The PCOO will of course choose only those it approves of. Like the incoming PCOO head herself, avid Marcos Junior partisans who very likely even helped him campaign will be its preference.
The exclusion of others who do not meet that “qualification” will make the accreditation of the chosen bloggers, if it does happen, one more means through which the incoming regime can control the manner and extent to which its policies and actions are reported. And that seems to be the exact intention.
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