(Eagle News)—The Palace on Thursday, Jan. 10, denied it was behind some media reports linking the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines to Communists, calling the NUJP “paranoid” instead.
Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in the first place, the Presidential Communications Operations Office and the Philippine National Police “will not do that.”
Panelo was referring to the reports that came out in several tabloids and which the NUJP has condemned as an “orchestrated government attack through unscrupulous elements in the media intended to silence journalists.”
PNP Chief Oscar Albayalde has relieved three police officers who allegedly leaked information on the supposed profiling of members of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers.
Albayalde denied he gave any such order for a “profiling,” adding it was already the police’s job to gather relevant intel in the first place.
