'I believe that the President selected me to lead the to come out with the truth, to really protect media practitioners,' Joe Torres tells host Caloy Conde
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Torres said he was feeling “quite nervous and challenged” about the new office and fulfilling the tasks that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has outlined for him. “Definitely, there will be no red tagging, there will be no labeling,” he added. He also said he hoped to have a dialogue “between the media and, for example, the National Task Force to End Local Communist Activities or NTF-ELCAC and the security sector so that “all the issues that have been mentioned in the past cleared.”“And the challenge, of course, is to really listen to the media, to talk with them about their needs,” Torres said.
Among the concrete changes that Torres is looking into is redefining when the murder of a journalist is considered “case closed.” Current practice defines a case as being closed when a suspect has been identified, even if the said suspect has not yet been prosecuted, indicted or convicted. But given hard circumstances, Torres said, “We don’t want to blame the media for this lack of economic or financial business” which would lead to local politicians funding media.
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