Community Press Role in Nation Building

Philippine Press Institute (PPI) Executive Director Ariel Sebellino stressed the role of community press which is for nation building by "preserving democracy and protecting press freedom" in his keynote talk at the Negros Press Club’s 76th Induction at Bascon Hotel, Bacolod, PH.

Earlier he inducted into office the new officers of the NPC led by Negros Daily Bulletin (NDB) Editor Arman Toga.

Sebellino (Image, NDB-online.com)

The media "is the quickest to spot and report whatever form of corruption and anomaly that lurks in the convoluted midst of day to day survival and discontent," he pointed out.

Source of Media Power

He mentioned that the power of media emanates "from the public or people who they serve that set the news, and whose thirst for truth and information is incessant and vary from time to time, depending of the turn of events."

He said that mediamen take pride to always cling to "noble intention of letting the public make sense of the news - the very product of our journalistic fervor and commitment of shaping the minds of Filipinos."