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John Nery
@jnery_newsstand
Columnist & Editorial Consultant, Rappler. (Editor at the Inquirer 2001-18.) Trustee, Asian Center for Journalism. Lecturer, Ateneo de Manila. Nieman 2012.
johnnery.wordpress.comJoined August 2012
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Were the President’s inaugural address and first SONA “good” speeches? Or are we grading his public speaking from the abysmally low bar Duterte set? Speech communication prof @otserquina of UP analyzes FM JR AS PUBLIC SPEAKER tonight, IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE, live at 8. Join us!
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Were the President’s inaugural address and first SONA “good” speeches? Or are we grading his public speaking from the abysmally low bar Duterte set? Speech communication prof of UP analyzes FM JR AS PUBLIC SPEAKER tonight, IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE, live at 8. Join us!
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Tonight, live at 8pm! Join our conversation with Dr. Carmel Abao on coming to terms with the second Marcos presidency.
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I side with , and other volunteer digital archivists—and call out for her habit of "activist patrolling." (I wish she just owned up to her mistake.) Today's column.
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Absolute genius move!
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Hugh Grant tweeted a request at activists protesting outside Westminster to play the Benny Hill theme on their loudspeakers; when they did it became the soundtrack for street interviews with leading Tories trying explain the situation to the British people
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Another column, out today: “The four REs of the Marcos restoration.”
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All the talk of internal conflict in the new administration aside, the President and his family are committed to four overriding objectives.
#ThoughtLeaders piece by @jnery_newsstand rappler.com/voices/thought
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The third RE is repossession of old or hidden assets, and ex-PCGG commissioner thinks the agency itself may be used to find these ill-gotten assets FOR the Marcoses. As UP’s once said: “Good luck na lang talaga!” Today’s column.
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The Marcos veto denying econ. zone status to the Bulacan airport raises novel procedural & political issues. UP PolSci professor & ex-Senate official @francojean825 and veteran journalist & Pulitzer winner @ReutersPH thresh out the issues, tonight at 8! rappler.com/nation/in-the-
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The Marcos veto denying econ. zone status to the Bulacan airport raises novel procedural & political issues. UP PolSci professor & ex-Senate official and veteran journalist & Pulitzer winner thresh out the issues, tonight at 8!
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"In my view, the political aspect of the Robredo movement is not about recognizing its potential, but recognizing its meaning," writes Rappler columnist John Nery.
Read his analytical piece here: rappler.com/voices/thought
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The political aspect of the Robredo movement is right there in the powerful slogan that electrified the campaign. That's why it's important to organize the political equivalent of the Angat Buhay NGO. Call it Gobyernong Tapat Inc. Today's column.
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Tonight, at 8pm, with transitional justice expert Ruben Carranza () and CHR ex. dir. Jacqueline de Guia — [WATCH] In The Public Square with John Nery: The human rights agenda under Marcos
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The Commission on Human Rights was one of the innovations of the post-Marcos Constitution. How will the CHR, and its sixth Commission, fare under Marcos Jr? What IS the future of the HR agenda? Join and CHR’s Jacqueline de Guia in a necessary convo, tonight at 8!
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From what I see and hear, calling Koko Pimentel the "incoming Senate minority leader" is premature.
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Senator Koko Pimentel, incoming Senate minority leader, on the shutdown order vs Rappler: If they can get a TRO from a court higher than the SEC, then the order can be stopped or held in abeyance. We should follow court processes and hierarchy. | via @maracepeda
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Important context
The Court of Appeals earlier ordered SEC to re-evaluate ruling:
“In view of donation made by Omidyar of all the Omidyar PDR to the Rappler staff, the negative foreign control found objectionable by the SEC appears to have been permanently removed.”
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Retweeting this thread from three and half years ago. Not all of Duterte’s willing assassins use guns. Some—against all reason, justice, proportion—issue revocation orders.
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Reductionist, grossly disproportionate, and just plain wrong: SEC revocation of Rappler incorporation attacks press freedom, to pluck thorn from Duterte's Fentanyl-fortified side. opinion.inquirer.net/110294/will-ri
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WE’RE FIGHTING.
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa on Wednesday morning said the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ordered online news organization Rappler to shut down. news.abs-cbn.com/news/06/29/22/
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Renowned actor/director (TL:DR version): The existential crisis that today’s journalists face can only be resolved with the help of other institutions, not just the media. #HoldTheLine #MediaFightBack
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.@guingonabart: You no longer cannot fight disinformation from just within the press. Fact-checking will fail unless it's supported by a large stakeholder base.
#InThePublicSquare: youtu.be/9yEaJdX-X0I
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Eminent cultural critic Marian Pastor Roces (TL;DR version): Redtagging is a tactic from an old war that no longer exists, used now to support the return of a supposed golden age that never existed. #HoldTheLine #MediaFightBack
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Media Nation’s Marian Pastor Roces: Red-tagging is a 1950's-1960's strategy, it belongs to the world we are no longer living, it's framed supposedly by violent competition between left and right, a formulation which has no value in our analysis today.
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The managing editor of , , believes the NTC ban is not one last spasm of a dying regime but the start, the “scaling up,” of something worse under the incoming regime. #HoldTheLine #MediaFightBack
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.@LenOlea: This is really alarming, this could be a precedent. We are raising the alarm because this is just the beginning of what we see as media repression with the incoming presidency.
#InThePublicSquare: youtu.be/9yEaJdX-X0I
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This thread is a useful summary of the discussion with managing editor and Media Nation’s and Marian Pastor Roces. #HoldTheLine #MediaFightBack
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In The Public Square with John Nery: Does the media need help? twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1
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We wanted today’s show to focus on how civil society can help the media in the disinformation era, then the news about the NTC ban broke. So we asked ’s own to join Media Nation’s Marian Pastor Roces and —tonite, live at 8.
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A brazen violation of constitutional guarantees (free speech, free press). Till its last days in office, the Duterte administration continues to add to its principal legacy: democratic erosion. #HoldTheLine #MediaFightBack
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Story so far, but definitely not the end. Lawyers of the government should make clear if they back this action from the NSC. They were, after all, the ones who promised the Supreme Court - and the Filipino people - that the law will not go beyond its text.
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"The biggest threat to democracy right now is not those unjustly labelled 'terrorists' for reporting the truth based on facts, but state agents like Esperon and the National Security Council who spew lies and disinformation to justify political repression"
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Bulatlat.com, as requested by Esperon is now inaccessible from my end as a Smart user. Mirror site Bulatlat.org is a live site. says it "condemns this brazen violation of our right to publish & of the public's right to free press & free expression"
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Maybe the full title of tonight’s episode (“Stereotyping Mindanao”) should include this: “and other forms of lazy thinking.” Join peace & democracy advocate , human rights rabblerouser , and me (all proudly Mindanaoan) at 8pm, live.
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Statement of UP Diliman CSSP Executive Board on disinformation vs. Assoc. Prof. Jean Encinas-Franco, PhD
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Today’s Newsstand column is on one kind of Marcos BS. “The way campaign spokesperson and incoming executive secretary Vic Rodriguez explained Thursday’s selective news conference was an example of the bullshit that’s meant to flatten the discourse.”
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Director Mike de Leon, recalling harassment in 1979: "Like my overnight detention by the Marcos-controlled military in 1972, the
whole affair was intended to intimidate me. It was made clear that nobody
had any right to criticize the reigning couple, not even in jest.”
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Mike De Leon couldn’t be here at the #Itim screening. But he wanted to say some words that we share with you. #CannesClassics #Cannes2022 #CarlottaXCannes
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“The first rule of interpretation for the democratic and progressive forces that coalesced around Robredo, then, is to fight against, to refuse to be complicit in, their erasure.” Today’s column.
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