{"id":241264,"date":"2020-01-03T00:57:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T05:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=241264"},"modified":"2020-01-03T00:57:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T05:57:26","slug":"ejk-of-press-freedom-nonsense-claim-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/01\/03\/ejk-of-press-freedom-nonsense-claim-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"EJK of press freedom ‘nonsense’ claim: Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said the executive branch prefers to ignore Lagman’s allegation rather than give the solon a media mileage. (File Photo:<\/a> Office of the Presidential Spokesperson\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— Albay First District Rep. Edcel Lagman’s claim that there is an “extrajudicial killing” of press freedom under President Rodrigo Duterte’s watch is “nonsense,” Malaca\u00f1ang said on Friday.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said the executive branch prefers to ignore Lagman’s allegation rather than give the solon a media mileage.<\/p>\n

“We will not respond to another nonsense from him. Those issues have been bled dry by rambunctious critics like him, and have been responded to before,” the Palace official said.<\/p>\n

“We will not repeat ourselves. We will not accommodate him just to make him earn media mileage,” he added.<\/p>\n

Panelo’s statement was in response to Lagman’s recent call on Duterte to bring his personal grievances against local broadcast network ABS-CBN Corporation to the proper judicial or administrative forum, instead of “imposing an extrajudicial killing of the freedom of the press.”<\/p>\n

Lagman’s appeal came after Duterte on Monday advised the Lopez family to just put ABS-CBN on sale.<\/p>\n

The President’s proposal came, as he renewed his vow that the ABS-CBN, whose franchise will lapse on Mar. 30, 2020, would lose its battle to renew its 25-year legislative franchise.<\/p>\n

Television and radio broadcasting firms in the Philippines are mandated to get a franchise, as provided by Republic Act 3846.<\/p>\n

A congressional franchise bill must be first approved by the House of Representatives and the Senate before the President can either sign it into law or veto it.<\/p>\n

To date, at least nine bills seeking the renewal of ABS-CBN’s franchise have been filed at the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

On December 8 last year, Panelo said the renewal of the local media giant’s franchise would still be up to Congress.<\/p>\n

Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Martin Andanar on December 18 said ABS-CBN can still run its other media platforms, in case it fails to secure a fresh 25-year franchise for the operations of its television and radio broadcasting stations.<\/p>\n

ABS-CBN is primarily involved in content creation and production for television, online, and over-the-top (OTT) platforms, cable, satellite, cinema, live events, and radio for domestic and international markets, according to its website.<\/p>\n

It also operates various platforms, including domestic television, radio networks, worldwide OTT, and online platforms.<\/p>\n

ABS-CBN also has interests in Philippine cable, satellite, and broadband systems; music and music publishing; consumer products and licensing; multimedia services; magazine and book publishing; product and post-production services; telecommunication services; money remittance; cargo forwarding; TV shopping services; food and restaurant services; theme park development and management; property management; and cinema management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA\u00a0— Albay First District Rep. Edcel Lagman’s claim that there is an “extrajudicial killing” of press freedom under President Rodrigo …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":197910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,54365,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-instagram","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ruth-abbey-gita-carlos","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241268,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241264\/revisions\/241268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}