VERA Files
Sa paggunita ng ika-51 anibersaryo ng deklarasyon ng Martial Law sa Pilipinas noong Sept. 21, nakausap ng VERA Files si Lourdes “Chuchay” Fernandez, ang kauna-unahang babae na naging editor-in-chief ng national daily newspaper sa kasaysayan ng pamamahayag sa bansa.
Often, as internal oppression intensifies, the closer and more scathing external scrutiny becomes. In response, the authority being made accountable calibrates its response as the crisis deepens: from outright denial to obfuscation to censorship and to an eventual crackdown on its critics.
By JAKE SORIANO “THE past is never dead. It’s not even past,” wrote the great William Faulkner, a Nobel laureate for literature. The past is clearly never dead in the new documentary Portraits of Mosquito Press by JL Burgos about the assault on press freedom and human rights during the rule of Ferdinand Marcos, […]