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Half of Pinoys think it's dangerous to be critical of Duterte admin: SWS poll

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/news/07/31/duterte.jpg"/><figcaption>President Rodrigo Duterte meets with the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Malago Clubhouse in Malacañang, July 30, 2020. <em>Robinson Niñal Jr.,Presidential Photo/File</em></figcaption></figure></div><h2>SWS: Higher agreement among those who think ABS-CBN franchise should have been renewed.</h2><p>MANILA-- Half of Filipinos think it&#x27;s dangerous to report anything critical of President Rodrigo Duterte&#x27;s administration, results of a Social Weather Stations mobile poll released on Friday showed.</p><p>Fifty-one percent of Filipino adults agreed with the statement &quot;it is dangerous to print or broadcast anything critical of the administration, even if it is the truth,&quot; SWS said, equivalent to a +21 net agreement score.</p><p>Only 30 percent disagreed, while 18 percent were undecided.</p><p>Net agreement this year that reporting critically of Duterte&#x27;s administration is dangerous was lower by 10 points at a moderate +21 compared to a strong +31 reported in June 2019, SWS said.</p><p>Those who strongly disagree rose to 17 percent from 8 percent last year, while those who somewhat disagree went to 14 percent from 12 percent.</p><p>The proportion of those who are undecided fell from 29 percent to 18 percent, SWS said.</p><p>Compared to the June 2019 poll, SWS said net agreement stayed strong in Mindanao and Visayas but fell in Metro Manila and Balance Luzon.</p><p>In Visayas and Mindanao, belief that critical reporting on the Duterte administration is dangerous inched to +26 and +28 respectively from +25 and +27.</p><p>Net agreement in Metro Manila however fell to +16 this year from +32 in June 2019. SWS said it also fell from strong to moderate in Balance Luzon, down from +34 in June 2019 to moderate +16 in July 2020.</p><p>The non-commissioned survey was conducted from July 3 to 6 using mobile phone and computer-assisted telephone interviewing of 1,555 adult Filipinos nationwide and has a sampling error margin of ±2 percent for national percentages.</p><div><strong>ON ABS-CBN FRANCHISE</strong></div><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/tvpatrol/08/05/chart1.jpeg"/></figure></div><p>Meanwhile, there was a stronger agreement to the idea that it is dangerous to report critically of Duterte&#x27;s administration among those who agreed that the non-renewal of ABS-CBN&#x27;s franchise was a major blow to press freedom at +33, SWS said.</p><p>The same poll also found that 3 out of 4 Filipinos believed that Congress should have granted ABS-CBN a new franchise.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/tvpatrol/08/05/chart-2.jpeg"/></figure></div><p>Congress on July 10 denied the top Philippine broadcasting company a new franchise, in what was seen as a fulfillment of the President&#x27;s previous threat to the company.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/11/20/sws-3-out-of-4-filipinos-say-congress-should-renew-abs-cbn-franchise">SWS: 3 out of 4 Filipinos say Congress should renew ABS-CBN franchise</a></li></ul><p>President Duterte has been known to threaten media companies that have been critical in their reporting of his leadership such as ABS-CBN, broadsheet Philippine Daily Inquirer, and news website Rappler.</p><p><a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com">news.abs-cbn.com</a> is the official news website of ABS-CBN Corp.</p>

<p>Half of Filipinos think it's dangerous to report anything critical of President Rodrigo Duterte's administration, results of a Social Weather Stations mobile poll released on Friday showed.</p>

Half of Filipinos think it's dangerous to report anything critical of President Rodrigo Duterte's administration, results of a Social Weather Stations mobile poll released on Friday showed.