The claim that the rejection of the application by ABS-CBN for a renewal of its legislative franchise is an exercise of “representative democracy” is spurious because the people’s overwhelming clamor is for the grant of the franchise.
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In order to insulate press freedom from partisan politics and foreclose any arbitrary denial by legislators of the grant and renewal of legislative franchises to mass media corporations, the Radio Control Act of 1931 must be repealed.
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Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque errantly defended the congressional rejection of a fresh franchise to ABS-CBN on the ground that it was the “decision of the Filipino people” since they “ratified the Constitution that bars a broadcast company from operating without a congressional franchise.”
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After leading the assault on press freedom by ensuring the partisan rejection of ABS-CBN’s bid for a franchise renewal, Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano cannot escape culpability by merely intoning that the protagonists and the nation must “move forward”.
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I want to make it clear that I am not a member of the committee on legislative franchises, for which reason I was not entitled to vote on the issue whether or not to grant ABS-CBN a renewed franchise.
However, as a Member of the House of Representatives I have the right to voice out my position during the joint committee hearings.
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