NewsWhore
09-23-2008, 04:30 PM
The Dominican College of Journalists led a protest march at Calle El Conde, from Columbus Park to Independence Park today. Mercedes Castillo, president of the college, expressed concerned that there have been 20 cases of legal suits or aggressions against journalists in the past three months, and 35 so far this year nationwide. "We are protesting so they let us do our work, that they respect our role in society that is to report the facts," she said. She said that investigative journalists play an important role in society all around the world. She stressed this is not a protest against the government, as the aggressions are from all sectors.
The most notorious case is that of Huchi Lora and Nuria Piera that were under fire from government sector for having investigated the quality of school milk served in public school, that of Manuel Guillermo Mejia who denounced in Bani that money was missing from a drug case in his town. This eventually led to the replacement of Bani prosecutor Victor Cordero who was subsequently accused by Bani Senator Wilton Guerrero of complicity with drug dealers in the province. The case of journalist Manuel Antonio Vega in Hato Mayor, that of Vianco Martinez, by bodyguards of an artist, and that of TV journalist Alicia Ortega for airing of a program that revealed a company would have committed fraud against its customers.
Speaking at the event, Alicia Ortega said that journalists are the eyes of society and they would not be shut down. "We will continue to be the eyes of society," she claimed.
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The most notorious case is that of Huchi Lora and Nuria Piera that were under fire from government sector for having investigated the quality of school milk served in public school, that of Manuel Guillermo Mejia who denounced in Bani that money was missing from a drug case in his town. This eventually led to the replacement of Bani prosecutor Victor Cordero who was subsequently accused by Bani Senator Wilton Guerrero of complicity with drug dealers in the province. The case of journalist Manuel Antonio Vega in Hato Mayor, that of Vianco Martinez, by bodyguards of an artist, and that of TV journalist Alicia Ortega for airing of a program that revealed a company would have committed fraud against its customers.
Speaking at the event, Alicia Ortega said that journalists are the eyes of society and they would not be shut down. "We will continue to be the eyes of society," she claimed.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#11)