Press freedom under siege : reportage that challenged the Marcos dictatorship / edited by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo. - Quezon City, Philippines : The University of the Philippines Press, c2019. - xxvii, 405 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25.40 cm.

Contents: 1 Press breakthrough -- 2 Disturbing patterns -- 3 The who writers: new journalism of the 1980s -- 4 Boundaries of press freedom -- 5 Women writers: banned, banished -- 5 Forced resignations, arrests, and detention -- 7 Summons, interrogations, libel suits -- 8 The gatherinh storm -- The outrage.

"To see a gathering of literature produced during martial law as no more than dormant literature for picking up, or not, is to miss the point to looking back. As we speak, a Strongman rises again. To look back is to move forward with fewer mistakes, and the literature has already been written to get us there. —Jo-Ann Q. Maglipon, writer" --Backcover

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Text in English

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Freedom of the press --History. --Philippines
Press --Philippines.
Government and the press --Philippines.
Censorship --Philippines.
Philippines --Politics and government --1973-1986.

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