According to CEGP, the country’s oldest campus newspaper organization, there have been several incidents where CEGP and affiliated campus papers were wrongly red-tagged or identified as part of the armed communist insurgency.CEGP members went to the Commission on Higher Education , but its office was supposedly closed due to its employees being subjected to COVID-19 testing.
“The blatant attacks on journalism should never be permitted! Now, more than ever, we are in need of responsible and transparent journalism; if we are to eradicate them at an early stage, what good would it bring us?” CEGP deputy secretary general Regina Tolentino said in a statement.