Image by Duterte page via Facebook - Incoming president Rodrigo Duterte will no longer hold press conferences
- Duterte will just give statements and press releases to state-owned network PTV-4
- Duterte’s longtime aide Christopher Go announced the change on Friday, June 3
Incoming president Rodrigo Duterte will no longer hold press conferences and will stop granting interviews to the media.
In an article written by Bea Cupin of Rappler, it was disclosed that according to Duterte’s longtime aide Christopher Go, the president-elect will just give his messages through the state-owned network PTV-4.
“Sa ngayon walang press con para walang mali…. Iko-course through niya through state-owned stations ‘yung press releases, ‘yung mga interviews [There will be no press con for now so there will be no mistake…. He will just course press releases and interviews to state-owned stations],” said Go.
Duterte has been under fire in the past days because of the statements he made about the press people. For instance, when he said that some journalists who were killed asked for it because they were corrupt.
The international media groups immediately joined the condemnation of Duterte’s statement that many journalists have been killed in the country because they were corrupt and those who have done wrong are not exempt from assassination.
The Reporters Without Borders urged the Philippine media to boycott the elected president’s news conferences until he issues a formal public apology.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said the remarks “apparently excusing extrajudicial killings threaten to make the Philippines into a killing field for journalists.”
Furthermore, the International Federation of Journalists stressed that the Philippines has been the second-deadliest country for journalists since 1990; behind only war-torn Iraq. In addition, the CPJ said the country ranks fourth on its impunity index, which spotlights countries where journalists are murdered and the killers go free.
You can watch the report about the announcement here:
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