http://www.cebucitizenspresscouncil.org Being accountable comes with being free Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:37:51 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.cebucitizenspresscouncil.org/about/comment-page-1/#comment-75 PinoyPress » Why is Cebu Citizens Press Council telling journalists how to do their jobs? Wed, 06 Dec 2006 11:00:29 +0000 #comment-75 [...] If indeed the CCPC issued this statement, it certainly left a bad taste in my mouth. To rail against media’s tendency to report the negative is one thing. To ask media and the public to “put off public discussions of their grievances and misconceptions about the summit so that their actions could not fuel negative reporting by the media” — that is quite another thing. That’s asking journalists to become press agents for the summit and for the government. That does not serve what I thought is the purpose of the CCPC, which is not to tell the journalist how to do their jobs but to set up a mechanism for the press to be more accountable to the public. [...] [...] If indeed the CCPC issued this statement, it certainly left a bad taste in my mouth. To rail against media’s tendency to report the negative is one thing. To ask media and the public to “put off public discussions of their grievances and misconceptions about the summit so that their actions could not fuel negative reporting by the media” — that is quite another thing. That’s asking journalists to become press agents for the summit and for the government. That does not serve what I thought is the purpose of the CCPC, which is not to tell the journalist how to do their jobs but to set up a mechanism for the press to be more accountable to the public. [...]

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