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| SolGen Calida on ABS-CBN Franchise Hearing on June 01, 2020 (Lower House of Representatives) |
Nga-nga ang mga Congressmen sa naging pahayag ni SolGen Calida kahapon (June 01, 2010) sa ABS-CBN Franchise hearing sa Mababang Kapulungan. Below are screenshots excerpted from SolGen Calida's privilege speech.
Source: https://youtu.be/hi8PuN3eI38
For decades now ABS-CBN has been deceiving the Filipino people. The time has come to expose ABS-CBN, whose owners and corporate officers continue to deceive the Filipino people into believing that they are "in the service of the Filipino."
ABS-CBN is motivated not by service but by greed and a desire for power and influence. Their brazen acts must come to an end. The hour of reckoning may have been delayed, but it has now come.
ABS-CBN has committed too many violations which went unnoticed and unpunished. But we are determined to root out such illegal practices.
"The real issue with ABS-CBN and its owners is not Press Freedom. It is money, politics, and power ---how power is acquired, how it is abused and maintained, and most of all, how it obstructs the country's economic and democratic development."
"And now the end is near..."