{"id":9553,"date":"2020-05-06T09:51:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T01:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/?p=9553"},"modified":"2021-08-04T17:58:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T09:58:00","slug":"greenpeace-statement-on-the-closure-of-abs-cbn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/press\/9553\/greenpeace-statement-on-the-closure-of-abs-cbn\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace statement on the closure of ABS-CBN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the shutdown of ABS-CBN\u2019s broadcast operations, Greenpeace Philippines country director Lea Guerrero said:<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cGreenpeace stands with the media community in upholding press freedom and free speech, and in condemning the shutdown of ABS-CBN.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;Media institutions are vital in a thriving democracy and crucial in times of crisis, and are&nbsp; valuable advocacy partners of civil society organizations. It is doubly worrying that the shutdown comes during the COVID-19 crisis when vigilance to protect people\u2019s rights and access to information are most needed.<\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;We call on lawmakers to urgently tackle ABS CBN\u2019s franchise renewal and act in the interest of the Filipino people in upholding a free and independent media.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n<p><strong>Media contact:<\/strong><br>Angeli Cantillana<br>Communications Campaigner, Greenpeace Southeast Asia \u2013 Philippines<br>+639985959733, <a href=\"mailto:angeli.cantillana@greenpeace.org\">angeli.cantillana@greenpeace.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the shutdown of ABS-CBN\u2019s broadcast operations, Greenpeace Philippines country director Lea Guerrero said: \u201cGreenpeace stands with the media community in upholding press freedom and free speech, and in condemning&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":1551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"not set","p4_local_project":"not set","p4_basket_name":"not set","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[25],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-9553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-democracy","p4-page-type-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9553"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10774,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9553\/revisions\/10774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9553"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=9553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}