(UPDATE) RESTRICTING the access of journalists to President-elect Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. is not and will never be a policy of the incoming administration, his spokesman said Friday.

Vic Rodriguez, Marcos' longtime chief of staff and executive secretary-designate, made the clarification after the Marcos camp was called out for allowing only three television networks — Net25, SMNI and GMA-7 — to cover the incoming leader's first interview last Thursday after his proclamation.

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