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Seares: RTC ruling vs Ressa, Santos gives tutorial on editor/owner's liability for libel and aggrieved person's right of reply. And a mouthful about press freedom.

Pachico A. Seares / from June 17, 2020

[Related articles: What worked against Ressa, Santos, June 16; Ressa, Santos convicted under law that doesn't specify prescriptive period, June 15)MOST judges cannot resist the chance to lecture journalists when they decide against them in cases of libel before their court. Partly as preemptive defense of their ruling, especially when ...

What worked against Ressa, Santos: 1. the complainant being a private person; 2. Rappler’s failure to publish Keng’s side

Pachico A. Seares / from June 16, 2020

THE element of libel that journalists usually find easy to knock down and thus escape liability is malice.Even if a published material is erroneous and defamatory, the journalist is generally presumed to lack malice or ill-will or spite. One element less of the five elements, there is no crime.In the ...

Seares: Maria Ressa, Santos convicted under cyber-libel law that doesn't specify prescriptive period.

Pachico A. Seares / from June 15, 2020

EVEN if all the elements of the crime of cyber-libel filed against Maria Ressa and Reynaldo Santos Jr. had been proven, the case would have been dismissed had the Manila Regional Trial Court agreed with the defense that the crime already prescribed.The prescriptive period is the time within which a ...

Seares: Under Anti-Terrorism Law, court cannot order wiretapping on journalists and their news sources

Pachico A. Seares / from June 10, 2020

IT MUST be some comfort to media practitioners that the bills against terrorism -- Senate Bill #1083, approved last February 26 and House Bill #6875, approved last June 3 -- forbid the court to authorize wire-tapping on communications between journalists and their news sources.The conditions for surveillance to ferret out ...

Seares: Is MECQ right for Cebu City? ‘Saving lives’ part overwhelms again the ‘saving jobs’ bit.

Pachico A. Seares / from May 29, 2020

“POSSIBLY, ECQ will be lifted. It will be MECQ or GCQ. But this will depend on the experts... on the IATF.”—Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella, May 26, 2020And IATF and its experts have decided.The national government, through the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID), announced ...

Seares: Ressa and Uson cases: blurred line between a mistake and a lie

Pachico A. Seares / from May 16, 2020

[1] MARIA Ressa, founder and chief executive officer of the digital website Rappler, last May 7 was interviewed live on ABC News Australia's "Beverly of the World" about the closure of ABS-CBN.And Ressa said: "This is a network that had 11 million employees when I was working there, while I ...

Seares: ‘Coronavirus in newsroom’: 1) Must journalists report to office? 2) Covering Covid-19 patients

Pachico A. Seares / from May 03, 2020

TWO interesting recent incidents related to media and the corona pandemic, which must raise valid questions:[1] In South Carolina, United States, the newspaper “The Post and Courier” has required its news reporters to come to their office in Charleston at least one day a week starting May 4, in the ...

Seares: Gwen’s libel case vs. MT ‘kores’: Not for news story but Facebook comment

Pachico A. Seares / from April 15, 2020

CEBU Gov. Gwen Garcia’s gripe against Rhea Ruth Rosell, a Cebu-based news correspondent of the “Manila Times,” is not about news stories the reporter filed with the website but for her comments on Facebook, which were not about the governor’s policies and actions but about her alleged personal traits.Screen-shots of ...

Seares: What did broadcaster Clavio violate in posting claims of hospital deaths?

Pachico A. Seares / from April 13, 2020

IF ARNOLD Clavio were a Facebook user in Cebu, he would’ve been taken by the police before Gov. Gwen Garcia or Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella and publicly reprimanded for publicizing unverified, possibly false, information.But Clavio is a national journalist of 32 years, a radio-TV newscaster and host, tabloid columnist ...

Seares: If group chat is private and not news, talk on virus ‘corpses’ offensive but not illegal

Pachico A. Seares / from March 19, 2020

CAPITOL, there’s a situation.Cebu Gov. Gwen Garcia and Regional Health Director Dr. Jaime Bernadas were angry at social media users who circulated “false news” about victims of coronavirus.A chat group spread the false news that seven corpses, alleged victims of Covid-19, were cremated at Cosmopolitan Funeral Homes in Cebu City ...

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