Top Philippine paper in sale talks after Duterte threat
Source: AFP
Top newspaper the Philippine Daily Inquirer said Monday its owners are in talks to sell the publication, months after President Rodrigo Duterte threatened a shame campaign against them over critical coverage of his drug war.
Marixi Prieto, chairwoman of the Inquirer Group of Companies, said the family had decided to quit the newspaper business and was in talks to sell it to tycoon Ramon Ang, president of top Philippine conglomerate San Miguel Corp.
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Neither side mentioned the paper's longstanding dispute with Duterte, who has said Ang helped fund his presidential campaign.
In March Duterte described the Inquirer and major television broadcaster ABS-CBN as "sons of whores" and warned them of karmic repercussions for criticising him for alleged human rights abuses in the drug war.
"I'm not threatening them but someday their karma will catch up with them," Duterte said, singling out the Prietos as well as the Lopez family that controls the television network.
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I'm sure Bannon is looking to Duterte for guidance on silencing the press.
