President Duterte is sustaining his unorthodox way of crafting, by installment, an independent foreign policy through off-the-cuff talks before various Filipino audiences. Before a large group of Filipinos in Hanoi, soon after his arrival on official visit to Vietnam, he disclosed two courses of action he had decided on. One is to maintain the military…
Barely three months in office, President Rodrigo Duterte has shocked, surprised, and outraged groups as diverse as human rights defenders, journalists, and media advocacy organizations as well as those individuals who expect presidents to be more circumspect in both speech and manner. While he has continued to enjoy the support of those citizens convinced that…
Outright censorship was replaced by the dominant media’s standards of “newsworthiness.”