MANILA, Philippines --- The Duterte administration does "not condone media violence and repression of information," Malacaang said Friday, World Press Freedom Day. In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said "President Rodrigo Roa Duterte believes in the important role the press plays in our great democracy as he considers the fourth estate as our partners for genuine change." "As he himself said to the members of the media and by paraphrasing the words of Evelyn Beatrice Hall in her book entitled The Friends of Voltaire, 'I may not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it,'" he said. ...
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