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#Bulatlat20: Reaffirming truth-telling, defending press freedom
Bulatlat‘s commitment to human rights reporting and how it has remained true to truthtelling.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
Bulatlat.
As an alternative media, it was expected to actively report on the worsening extrajudicial killings – at least one activist killed per week – and other forms of human rights violations under a bloody counterinsurgency campaign spearheaded by the now-convicted former General Jovito Palparan Jr.
While these were covered by
Bulatlat, human rights stories seldom hogged the headlines in the dominant media. This situation was similar to the early days of the late President Corazon Aquino, where, in the guise of upholding “news values” and blindly working on the narrative that “democracy” has been restored, human rights violations were no longer considered newsworthy.