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Article: Cities and Municipalities.(Provincial News)
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- September 19, 2003
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Reporters in jueteng payola hit
DAGUPAN CITY (PNA) Members of the media owe allegiance to truth, to no one else, to nothing less.
Archbishop Oscar Cruz of the Lingayen-Dagupan archdiocese issued this statement in the wake of news reports that some media practitioners here are on the take of jueteng lords to protect the illegal numbers game operation in Pangasinan. The community is the big loser when media practitioners are said to be pitifully divided not by mere differences of opinion, not simply by standard misunderstanding but by such a vile and corrupt issue as jueteng payola, Cruz said. The church leader is alluding to a news item that recently ...