Comments on: Press Freedom in the Philippines is a huge joke http://abuggedlife.com/2007/11/12/press-freedom-in-the-philippines-is-a-huge-joke/ Technology | Publishing | Games | New Media | Philippines Mon, 21 May 2012 04:06:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Ryan http://abuggedlife.com/2007/11/12/press-freedom-in-the-philippines-is-a-huge-joke/comment-page-1/#comment-146215 Ryan Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:12:21 +0000 http://abuggedlife.com/2007/11/12/press-freedom-in-the-philippines-is-a-huge-joke/#comment-146215 Unfortunately the truth that belies this act will never be revealed, and that is the fact that the artists were commissioned to make a very specific mural, and were told not to put material like that in. Whether or not you agree with The NPC group that commissioned this piece is moot. The artists were hired to perform a very specific task, and they did not perform it to the degree required by their employer. The employer is within his rights to change the said artwork to reflect his original intent in having it commissioned. Now if this painting was made Privately, displayed in a gallery, and someone in the government ordered it to be defaced, it would have been another thing entirely. That is censorship. If the artists who made the mural didn't agree with the NPC's princinples, they should have simply refused to paint the mural. Unfortunately the truth that belies this act will never be revealed, and that is the fact that the artists were commissioned to make a very specific mural, and were told not to put material like that in. Whether or not you agree with The NPC group that commissioned this piece is moot. The artists were hired to perform a very specific task, and they did not perform it to the degree required by their employer. The employer is within his rights to change the said artwork to reflect his original intent in having it commissioned.

Now if this painting was made Privately, displayed in a gallery, and someone in the government ordered it to be defaced, it would have been another thing entirely. That is censorship.

If the artists who made the mural didn’t agree with the NPC’s princinples, they should have simply refused to paint the mural.

]]> By: baratillo @ cubao » Blog Archive » Censorship and Art http://abuggedlife.com/2007/11/12/press-freedom-in-the-philippines-is-a-huge-joke/comment-page-1/#comment-123701 baratillo @ cubao » Blog Archive » Censorship and Art Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:00:20 +0000 http://abuggedlife.com/2007/11/12/press-freedom-in-the-philippines-is-a-huge-joke/#comment-123701 [...] Tale of the Angono Artists and their Mural, here and here, just goes to show how censorship comes in many forms and purpose. This time around it [...] [...] Tale of the Angono Artists and their Mural, here and here, just goes to show how censorship comes in many forms and purpose. This time around it [...]

]]> By: Eugene http://abuggedlife.com/2007/11/12/press-freedom-in-the-philippines-is-a-huge-joke/comment-page-1/#comment-123604 Eugene Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:52:37 +0000 http://abuggedlife.com/2007/11/12/press-freedom-in-the-philippines-is-a-huge-joke/#comment-123604 A bad thing about this is that the alteration job is shoddy. Not that a perfectly artistic censorship is acceptable, but this rubs the salt on the open wounds of the Angono artists. A bad thing about this is that the alteration job is shoddy. Not that a perfectly artistic censorship is acceptable, but this rubs the salt on the open wounds of the Angono artists.

]]> By: Mikko http://abuggedlife.com/2007/11/12/press-freedom-in-the-philippines-is-a-huge-joke/comment-page-1/#comment-123511 Mikko Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:44:04 +0000 http://abuggedlife.com/2007/11/12/press-freedom-in-the-philippines-is-a-huge-joke/#comment-123511 How ironic! I was really shocked when I heard about this in the news. ;D How ironic! I was really shocked when I heard about this in the news. ;D

]]> By: Juned http://abuggedlife.com/2007/11/12/press-freedom-in-the-philippines-is-a-huge-joke/comment-page-1/#comment-123493 Juned Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:27:26 +0000 http://abuggedlife.com/2007/11/12/press-freedom-in-the-philippines-is-a-huge-joke/#comment-123493 I guess it shows that censorship can be achieved by using not only the steel glove of the military but also by the velvet glove of political mendicants and operators or one might even observe the white laced glove of powerful interest groups. Such acts can only be countered ironically with a form of treatment applicable to vampires by bringing the issue to light. In a matter of speaking. I guess it shows that censorship can be achieved by using not only the steel glove of the military but also by the velvet glove of political mendicants and operators or one might even observe the white laced glove of powerful interest groups.

Such acts can only be countered ironically with a form of treatment applicable to vampires by bringing the issue to light. In a matter of speaking.

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