Media organizations and press freedom advocates call the order for ABS-CBN to stop broadcasting an attack not only on the company, but on freedom of speech and the country's fragile democracy. NTC officials have said they've no choice but to follow the law. 'Having the network tell us, No, this is what we want to see, really encourages us to tell those stories, and be more detailed and to have more stories that focus on the culture, too.' The characters Jelly, Ben, and Pogo are based on Leva and her two brothers who all grew up in New York and South Carolina. Calida had also filed a case asking the Supreme Court to invalidate the media giant's license. On Sunday, however, as journalists marked World Press Freedom Day, the Philippine government's top lawyer, Jose Calida, threatened to charge regulators at the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) with graft if they went ahead with granting ABS-CBN a temporary permit. During those proceedings Philippine Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said the government could issue provisional authority to allow ABS-CBN to continue broadcasting while the network waited for official legislative approval of its license. Duterte accepted an apology from ABS-CBN President Carlo Katigbak in a Senate hearing in February.
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