We are sorely tempted to dismiss Lorraine Badoy's hysteric attacks on Rappler for calling out her lies as signs of a mind coming unhinged from having to conjure up fiction after fiction almost daily. To do so, however, would be to give her a way out from her...
[Statement] HAPPY BIRTHDAY ICY: No democracy keeps the innocent in jail
Today, journalist Lady Ann Salem turns 36, still behind bars despite the dismissal of what were clearly false charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives. What democracy keeps the innocent behind bars while their persecutors are given free rein to...
[Statement] Those who threaten violence have already lost the argument
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines stands with our colleagues from the campus publications of the University of the Philippines and denounces the cowards who have threatened them with violence. On Monday, March 1, the Tinig ng Plaridel,...
[Statement] Cordillera ‘tokhang’ is an abomination
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines urges the Regional Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee in the Cordillera to drop its ill-conceived plan to subject leftists, including our colleagues in media, to the controversial "tokhang" tactic of the...
[Statement] Bukidnon execs urged to go after red-tagging page
The National Union ofJournalists of the Philippines denounces the people behind the Facebook page "Kamatooran" for red-tagging us and our former director Cong Corrales, associate editor of Cagayan de Oro's Gold Star Daily. This page, which names itself "truth"...
[Statement] FREE ICY SALEM: The law is meant to protect, not persecute
(Photo: Altermidya People's Network) The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines condemns the police and Mandaluyong City prosecutor's office for cruelly continuing to block freedom for Manila Today editor Lady Ann Salem and trade unionist Rodrigo Esparago...
[Statement] There is no ‘burden of denial,’ only burden of proof
(Photo: Lt. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana, chief of Armed Forces of the Philippines. Screenshot from RTVM/ Inquirer.net) The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines is aghast at AFP chief Cirilito Sobejana's suggestion that Inquirer.net's Tetch Torres-Tupas...
[Statement] NUJP to Congress: Prove independence, grant ABS-CBN franchise
We are tempted to thank President Rodrigo Duterte for proving us right about what we have been saying all along, that the shutdown of ABS-CBN was a personal vendetta that a lapdog Congress helped seal. Why else would he rail about ordering the National...
[Statement] Why we resist. No to Terror Law!
On February 2, the day the Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments on the petitions challenging the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020, Lt Gen Antonio Parlade Jr tool to Facebook to falsely accuse reporter Tetch Torres-Tupas of Inquirer.net of "fake news" and suggested she...