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26th Press Freedom Anniversary celebration starts this week

May 13, 2008

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MEDIA IN BLACK. Members of the Cagayan de Oro Press Club (COPC) will again be coming together to spearhead the 26th Anniversary of Press Freedom Week this year. Solidarity Forever Our Dreams Will Never Die. Story by By Mike Banos.

The media in Cagayan de Oro city will celebrate the 26th edition of

Press Freedom Week on May 26-31st with fellowship and camaraderie

among media personnel, their news sources and other members of civil

society.

And to celebrate a dubious distinction: so far, despite the continuing

genocide against journalists in the country, not one journalist in the

celebrated ‘City of Golden Friendship’ has been killed in the line of

duty, although COPC Member Joe Pantoja was shot last year in the

nearby city of Iligan but survived.

The festivities are coordinated by the Cagayan de Oro Press Club, Inc.

(COPC) with the theme: “Pagpangita sa Kamatuoran, Alang sa Pagsangyaw

sa Tanan” (Searching for the Truth for the purpose of sharing it with

others.).

Other media organizations which will join in the week-long celebration

include the local chapters of National Union of Journalists in the

Philippines, Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster sa Pilipinas, Diamond Press

Corps, PNP-10 Press Corps and the Regional Association of Government

Communicators (Ragcom).

They will be joined by the Cagayan de Oro media’s partners in service

including the Cagayan de Oro City Government headed by Mayor

Constantino G. Jaraula, Misamis Oriental Provincial Government led by

Governor Oscar S. Moreno, the Philippine National Police Regional

Office 10 (PRO-10) with Regional Director Teodorico Capuyan, Jr.; 4th

Infantry Division headed by its new division commander Brig. Gen.

Ricardo A. David, Jr., Steag State Power Inc. and Senator Mar Roxas,

who will also be the keynote speaker during the week’s closing

ceremonies on Saturday, May 31st.

This year’s theme was inspired by Pope Benedict XVI’s message for the

42nd World Communications Day, which is also celebrated worldwide as

World Press Freedom Day on May 4, 2008, which had the theme “The

Media: At the Crossroads between Self-Promotion and Service. Searching

for the Truth in order to Share it with Others.”

Cagayan de Oro became the very first city to celebrate Press Freedom

Week in 1982 during the darkest days of martial law when Sen. Aquilino

Q. Pimentel, Jr., who hails from Cagayan de Oro, was still city mayor.

“Cagayan de Oro has a vibrant press that is kept alive by a vigorous

press club. The people of the city are proud of its lively press. We

are especially pleased that even during the dark days of martial law,

by Executive Order No. 241 we set aside a week to celebrate Press

Freedom in the city in 1982 and the Cagayan de Oro Press Club has

without let up held the celebration every year thereafter up to the

present,” Pimentel said. The senator is still an active member of the

COPC.

Other media organizations in the country also mark their own version

of Press Freedom Week, notably those in Cebu and Dumaguete. The Cebu

media will celebrate the 14th edition of Press Freedom week next

September with the Dumaguete Press Radio and Television Club

celebrating it on the same week.

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