The Philippine Daily Inquirer, popularly known as The Inquirer, is the most widely read broadsheet newspaper in the Philippines, with a daily circulation of 260,000 copies (a 52-percent share of total circulation of broadsheets in the country).
History
The Philippine Daily Inquirer was founded on December 9, 1985, during the last days of the regime of Ferdinand Marcos. It was founded on a budget of one million pesos, and enjoyed a daily circulation of 30,000 in its early days.
During the administration of president Joseph Estrada, the president criticized The Inquirer for "bias, malice and fabrication" against him — a charge The Inquirer denied. In 1999, several government organizations, pro-Estrada businesses, and movie producers simultaneously pulled their advertisements in the Inquirer. The presidential palace was widely implicated in the advertising boycott, prompting sharp criticism from international press freedom watchdogs.
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