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The Clan Politics of ARMM: Ampatuans, web of kin warp Maguindanao polls

By Ed Lingao
Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (http://www.pcij.org)
First of Three Parts

Note: This story of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism was first published on www.pcij.org.

Media’s help sought on Mindanao’s critical environment situation

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/9 Dec) – The media must dig more and be more critical in the midst of a deteriorating environmental situation in Mindanao, former presidential assistant for Mindanao Jesus Dureza said in the opening Thursday of the three-day 7th Mindanao Media Summit.

Dureza, who is now publisher of the Davao-based Mindanao Times and the Mindanao trustee of the Philippine Press Institute, said the media must go beyond the usual fare of reportage “amidst the various advocacies” on the island’s deteriorating environmental state.

THE PHILIPPINE PRESS COUNCIL: Surviving the Challenges

By Regina Bengco, Malaya

(This is her research project for the 2011 Asia Journalism Fellowship held in Singapore on Feb. 7 to April 29, 2011. It was written in April. An update and acknowledgments follow the main article.)

INTRODUCTION

The press council is one of the accountability systems in the Philippines, which has a self-regulated media.

The Philippines has two national-level press councils: the Philippine Press Council under the Philippine Press Institute (PPI), which covers the newspaper industry; and the Broadcast Standards Authority of the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP or Association of Broadcasters of the Philippines), which oversees the broadcast industry.

Regional- and local-level press councils also exist in Baguio City in the northern Philippines, in the Central Luzon region, in Palawan province, and in Cebu province.

The first national-level Philippine Press Council was created in compliance with Republic Act Number 4363 (RA 4363), which was enacted on June 19, 1965, to amend the provisions of the Revised Penal Code on defamation.

Section 3 of RA 4363 required the Philippine press to organize and elect the members of a Press Council, which will promulgate a Code of Ethics, investigate violations, and censure any journalist or newspaper guilty of violating the Code.

In 1972, President Ferdinand Marcos abolished the Press Council after proclaiming martial law. Marcos, through Presidential Decree No. 36, canceled the franchises and permits of radio, television and communications facilities and created the Mass Media Council (MMC) to regulate the operation of the media in order to “safeguard the security of the state” from what he claimed as the use of mass media in the conspiracy against government by “forces of insurgency and subversion.”

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