Today, Joey Concepcion is himself a voice crying in the wilderness for media freedom.
No, Mr Concepcion is not redefining media freedom – he is redefining how we moderns should look at media. ABS-CBN has myriads of offerings: variety shows, dramas, game shows, talk shows, memory-lane shows, and replays of old movies.
Mr Concepcion is an unexpected champion in this case, as he is Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship, and he is a businessman, founder of Go Negosyo, Go Business. I know he is also a champion of PH Agriculture, agri-business co-mentor with Secretary of Agriculture William Dar.
I wrote about the matter 07 May 2020, ”What If Duterte Unmuzzled ABS-CBN? Then He Will Be My Hero !” – Frank A Hilario” (Greenfields Asia). In that essay, first I quoted:
The University of the Philippines (Diliman) College of Mass Communication strongly decries the action of the NTC’s cease-and-desist order (vs) ABS-CBN operations. ¶ Again, the current (Duterte) Administration demonstrates the lengths it will go to silence critical media voices.
In reply, I said:
Using UP Think, I must decry NTC’s CDO against ABS-CBN: NTC took away ABS-CBN’s academic freedom.
Being a media person myself, now that I hear loud an entrepreneur talking about media freedom, I love it! Especially that this one is Filipino.
Says Mr Concepcion above in his Facebook sharing:
ABS-CBN, along with other networks, does so much in uplifting our people, bringing not only entertainment, but hope. In these tyring times where many of our people lose their jobs, their life savings, and their family members, the least we can do is to deliver HOPE to them.
Those are only 48 words, but since they are from one of the respected leaders of the private sector, they are as powerful as a declaration of faith in the media by PH business as well as a declaration of care to the people of the Philippines who love the programs that PH TV networks present to them. What do those programs do to the people who watch them? “The least we can do is to deliver HOPE to them.”
What we can do if we are not fully satisfied with what the networks are offering to the masses is complain via media, not shut down media.
ABS-CBN is not among the vociferous media critics of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, no. I said there:
Differently, a senior citizen at 79, a self-taught journalist and a Facebook hound, with everyday half-a-day surfing the Web, I have not seen ABS-CBN among the “critical media voices” vs President Rodrigo Roa Duterte. A mislabeling I cannot forgive UP Diliman’s MassCom for!
For ABS-CBN to become a palpable Network of Hope, I suggest that the Department of Agriculture, DA, through Secretary William Dar, arrange with the network heads the holding of digital classes on urban, school, and home gardening following the example of SEARCA’s “School-Plus-Home Gardens (S+HG)” SOLVE Webinar (contact http://fb.com/seameo.searca). SOLVE is Searca Online Learning & Virtual Engagements. Engaged, henceforth, digitally, DA & SEARCA will help turn ABS-CBN into a network of hope!@517
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