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Seares: Sinas-media dispute: police not legally bound to provide work space for reporters

Pachico A. Seares / from November 1, 2019

BEFORE he took over last Oct. 16 as police chief of the National Capital Region, Brig. Gen. Debold Sinas was Central Visayas regional police director.And his first major controversy in Metro Manila involves not drug traffickers, against whom he waged a massive and relentless campaign during his 16-month stint in ...

Seares: Cancelling subscriptions: spiteful, petty way for politicos to hit back

Pachico A. Seares / from October 25, 2019

IF US President Trump’s administration will push through his threat to end subscriptions to The Washington Post and the New York Times held by federal agencies, most likely no one will go to court to stop it.Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham announced Tuesday (Oct. 22) the White House would order the ...

Seares: Duterte motorcycle accident: When 2 spokesmen didn’t get the story right

Pachico A. Seares / from October 18, 2019

NOT everyone can speak for President Duterte. That’s why there is a presidential spokesman, in addition to a communication office. A single specific person needs to convey the President’s message or reflect his view on an event or issue. The President cannot meet the press all the time. On certain ...

Seares: Trump rhetoric against media seeps into violent propaganda: a ‘macabre’ video

Pachico A. Seares / from October 14, 2019

US President Trump was being asked Monday (Oct. 14) to condemn a mashup video in which the most violent clip shows a fake Trump mass-murdering media personalities and political figures in a “church of fake news.” Concerned individuals and groups in the U.S. say the video must be denounced since ...

Seares: Bongbong-Leni protest vulnerable to assault by fake-news fabricators

Pachico A. Seares / from October 7, 2019

“There are many speculations that Marcos has won and VP Robredo has lost. Those speculations are not true...”-- Romulo Macalintal, the Vice President’s lawyer, asking on Monday (Oct. 7) the Presidential Electoral Tribunal to provide the Marcos and Robredo camps with summary and report on revision and recount of ballots ...

Seares: Amendment to Sotto Law expands protection, keeps problem areas

Pachico A. Seares / from September 27, 2019

HOW much has the Sotto Law, a.k.a. Press Freedom Law, been expanded by its new amendment?So much that the protection against being compelled to disclose a journalist’s source of news or information now shields almost anyone who works with media.The Sotto Law is Republic Act (RA) 53, approved in October ...

Seares: Fixing the news, Sarah Sanders way; How Noli de Castro ‘distorted’ the story

Pachico A. Seares / from September 20, 2019

“... We have to start taking so much of the opinion out of the news... There’s a big difference between commentators and news and we have blended those so that there is no difference anymore and we’ve got to go back where those are separate.” — Sarah Sanders, in a ...

Seares: Inquirer.net apologizes; Rappler doesn’t: Where they must differ

Pachico A. Seares / from September 6, 2019

THE President’s spokesman and chief legal counsel, Salvador Panelo, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019, said he planned to sue the digital news media sites Inquirer.net and Rappler for “libeling” him about the letter of Antonio Sanchez’s family, requesting for executive clemency for the former Calauan, Laguna mayor who was serving multiple ...

Seares: Can a public official ban a reporter he’s angry with over a ‘twisted’ story?

Pachico A. Seares / from August 23, 2019

ORAL arguments in the hearing of the Rappler petition before the Supreme Court (SC) against high Palace officials, scheduled this week, may draw out more information from Malacañang on the reason, basis and scope of its ban on Pia Ranada and seven other reporters of the digital news site Rappler.Since ...

Seares: Ban on Rappler reporters: Why equal-protection attack may work

Pachico A. Seares / from August 19, 2019

[Related column: “Seares: Rappler’s lawsuit: Have its reporters been prevented from doing their job?” April 16, 2019]THE equal protection clause in the Bill of Rights of the Constitution, as the Supreme Court explains it, guarantees that “laws will treat alike persons similarly situated and treat differently those who are differently ...

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