A partylist of media and entertainment?

The Alyansa ng Media at Showbiz Partylist will push to provide the sector it represents housing, health, education and livelihood if given a chance to occupy seats in Congress.

AMS is a nationwide organization of workers in the media and showbiz industry which is composed of announcers, reporters, writers, news producers, production assistants, researchers, cameramen, editors, photographers, drivers, correspondents, columnist, newsboys, film directors, actors and actresses, singers
, composers, extras, make-up artists, talents and production crew in television and movies.

“Only five percent of those who are working in the media that we can consider as glamorous. In fact 95 percent of those working in the media are not paid well,” said movie actor and Film Academy of the Philippines director Leo Martinez, who is one of the AMS nominees in a press conference yesterday at Gemino’s Coffee Society at Century Park Hotel in Cebu City.

Other nominees who attended the press conference are famous surgeon and showbiz personality Dr. Manny Calayan and National Press Club vice president Rolando Gonzalo.

AMS aims to push for the upliftment of the working media’s socio-economic concerns, ensuring the protection of the freedom of speech and prior restraints, help the dying showbiz industry and push for the passage of the Media Working Bill, which is now left in the House’s archive.

Source - Partylist representing media, showbiz launched | The Freeman >> The Freeman Sections >> Cebu News