After the Cagayan de Oro Press Club raised howls of protest over limited slots for local media at the first presidential debate to be held in their city, the national media partner of the Commission on Elections, TV network GMA-7, agreed to increase the slots for local media from 10 to 25. There is, however, another restriction imposed on the local press: on Sunday, February 21, during the event at the Capitol University, they are not allowed to bring in “any type of coverage equipment.” The local press had decried the discrimination. One of the presidential candidates, Mindanaoan Rodrigo Duterte, has threatened to pull out of the debate if local journalists will be threatened as “second-class citizens.”
Read the full story on the restriction on Mindanao journalists on Rappler.
Read the full story on Duterte’s threat to boycott the debate on Rappler.
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