The community press and its revolutionary tradition / Georgina Reyes Encanto

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- The rise of the Provincial press --Factors that contributed to the rise of the provincial press in 1880s -- The pioneer provincial newspapers -- Folklore and journalism: a nascent form of Nationalism -- The community press during the American regime as an instrument for resistance and campaign for independence -- The Guerilla press: The site of underground resistance during the Japanese occupation from 1941 to 1945 -- The postwar community press -- The provincial press during the Martial Law Years (1972-1986) -- The alternative or mosquito press -- The provincial press and its continuing resistance -- The religious press: The first bastion of resistance -- The campus press: a vibrant hub of continuing dissent -- The underground press -- The community press since 1986: the decline of the revolutionary tradition -- The killing of journalists and the culture of impunity -- Conclusion -- Annnexes -- References -- Index -- About the author.

"The narrative of the Philippines as a nation built by struggles for freedom, in which free speech and press freedom are integral, has often overlooked the contribution of small, sometimes ephemeral, but often vocal publications that Georgina Reyes Encanto has termed the "community press." In retrieving the accounts of newspapers that the mainstream history of the press may have exiled to the shadows, she offers a significant argument that rewrites the history of journalism in the country-that is, much like how the nation is forged in political struggle, the idea of the community press is also constructed in the same struggle. In other words, community newspapers are bound up with the long anticolonial resistance and its aftermath of contesting the successive rule of the native elites and a dictator.
Overall, the book tells a fascinating story of the community press, that while some parts of it have been told before, the central argument of the book that the community press has a revolutionary tradition makes the retelling salient." -- Back cover.