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ABS-CBN’s 12-foot icepick

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I know it’s tragic enough that Charice’s estranged father had to catch up with the November 1 memorials to the dead, lying inside a coffin with an ice-pick stab. But it’s doubly tragic that an ABS-CBN news item early this … Continue reading

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Lessons from the underground press of the martial law era

“Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.” That quote might be a startling, almost cynical take on the meaning of press freedom. But it was a respected American journalist, A.J. Liebling, who coined the now-famous … Continue reading

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