We wish to convey our deepest sympathy and condolence to the bereaved family of Ernesto “Ka Ernie” Rollin. The whole community of media practitioners in Oroquieta City and Misamis Occidental is one with you in the search for justice to his untimely death.
While we understand the utmost risk involved in the nature of our [...]
STATEMENT OF THE OROQUIETA CITY PRESS CLUB ON THE RECENT KILLING OF BROADCASTER ERNIE ROLLIN
Mayor denies threatening reporter-columnist
CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A tabloid reporter-columnist said the mayor of Lumban town, Laguna province, threatened him last 22 February 2009. Laguna is about 104 kms. southeast of Manila. The mayor has denied making the threat.
People’s Tonight reporter and columnist Paul Gutierrez claimed that Lumban mayor Wilfredo Paraiso called him on his mobile phone at around [...]
‘Terrorism’ of the media slammed; journalists unite vs. Right of Reply Bill
Journalists today denounced the Right of Reply Bill (RORB) as an “act of terrorism against the media” and encouraged
the media and the Filipino people to resist the threat to democracy and constitutionally-enshrined rights posed by the
proposed legislation.
Underscoring the urgency of collective action against the RORB, news executives, publishers, editors, and producers
from major broadcast, online and [...]
NUJP Statement on the death of Ernie Rollin, first media killing in 2009
The Philippine media have lost another of their own
At around 5:30 a.m. of Monday, February 23, 2009, Misamis Occidental broadcaster Ernie Rollin became the first journalist in the country murdered this year, the 99th since the supposed restoration of democratic institutions in 1986 and the 63rd since President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo came to power in 2001.
A [...]
Honored at last
Anthony Chua
Nagasaki and Hiroshima had already been bombed by atomic bombs some 64 years ago forcing Imperial Japan to surrender to the United States, but it still took the same number of years for our valiant lolos and lolas, who fought alongside Americans, to be honored finally as heroes of World War 2.
The Americans [...]
