Yet Another Means To Curtail Press Freedom

This is a note from Prof. Arao's latest post.

In case you still don’t know, the management of Pinoy Weekly decided to temporarily stop the publication of the tabloid due to the country’s economic crisis and the concomitant high cost of printing. If it’s any consolation, the online edition will still continue. From what the online editor told me, the uploading of new content will happen every Friday (Manila time). I hope that you will continue to read Pinoy Weekly, the absence of a print edition notwithstanding. Actually, it is ironic that Pinoy Weekly’s print edition had to end at a time when one of its articles in 2007 was a finalist in the prestigious 19th Jaime V. Ongpin Awards for Excellence in Journalism (JVOAEJ).

Albeit indirectly, our failing economy proved to be quite an effective way to (temporarily, i hope) disable the alternative press. Good thing the online version's still here.

Sadly, there are PW readers who aren't comfortable with Google.

Here's to hoping that we acquire the capacity to pull ourselves out of our ego holes and dwell in to something outside our comfort zone.

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