The head of a new Presidential Task Force on Media Security vows to end red-tagging and look closely at killings.
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00:00The head of a new presidential task force on media security vows to end red-tagging
00:05and look closely at killings.
00:07In an interview with Caloy Conde of the Human Rights Watch, former journalist and former
00:11director-general of the Philippine Information Agency, Joe Torres, vows to fulfill its task
00:16of protecting journalists.
00:18Definitely, there will be no red-tagging, there will be no labeling.
00:23Torres says Marcos directed the task force to engage and to closely coordinate and work
00:27with the Kapisana ng mga Broadcaster ng Pilipinas, the National Press Club of the Philippines,
00:32and the National Union of Journalists in the Philippines.
00:35He also says that the president was very specific about focusing on local media, who are experiencing
00:40danger because of political issues.
00:43Torres hopes to have dialogue between the media and the National Task Force to End Local
00:47Communist Armed Conflict, or NTF-LCAC, and the security sector.