Journalists Ask Marcos to Back Task Force on Media Security. The National Press Club of the Philippines passed a special resolution for their security issue.
It asked President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s new government to keep helping the Presidential Task Force on Media Security do its job.
The PTFoMS was made when President Rodrigo Duterte signed Administrative Order 1 in October 2016. Its job is to look into any violations of the rights of media workers in the Philippines to life, liberty, and safety.
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In its Special Resolution 1, the 69-year-old media group’s leaders said they thought keeping the task force going under the Marcos government would send a strong message.
It is the same as the government was committed to a free and responsible press.
However, the NPC said that the task force is ad hoc and has limited resources.
It has made a big difference in the country’s media landscape because it now has the most authoritative and well-documented reports.
It contains all violence cases in the media country.
It also said that no violence related to the media on May 9 was a sign of the task force’s success.
And a first in the country’s history of elections is “something we should all be proud of.”
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