However, Rappler is now playing the victim card. Hence, this is a violation of the Constitution which limits ownership and management of media entities only to Filipinos. The issuance of the PDRs is not the question here, since the SEC allows this kind of financial arrangements. Had the investigation yielded that only Rappler misused the privilege of issuing PDRs and granted management prerogatives even to its foreign holders, then Rappler’s narrative of playing the victim card of being singled out would have been denied its basis. It is frustrating, to say the least, that the issue of a constitutional violation is now being sidelined by Rappler’s play of the victim card.

Source: Manila Times January 17, 2018 16:18 UTC