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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 3, 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 ...

Seares: When broadcasters themselves go to court to seek redress for libel

Pachico A. Seares / from March 11, 2020

MEDIA workers rarely sue one another, especially among those who do actual journalism, such as gathering, writing and commenting on the news.They hurl criticisms at one another, especially in broadcast, more openly and heatedly during the election season when radio commentators take sides in the political battle.That happens when some ...

Seares: The strange, curious case of ABS-CBN shutdown not being a free-press issue

Pachico A. Seares / from February 28, 2020

THERE are bases for saying that closing the operations of the broadcast network ABS-CBN is not an issue of press freedom.[1] The threat in Congress not to renew its 25-year grant stems from the network’s alleged business violations. The “quo warranto” petition in the Supreme Court alleges such violations.Violations of ...

Seares: ABS-CBN issue is not totally about free speech. Gag order makes it one.

Pachico A. Seares / from February 19, 2020

SINCE the issue on the franchise of ABS-CBN began to smolder early this year, supporters of the bills extending its 25-year grant had barely touched the matter of free speech and free press.Then the Department of Justice, through Secretary Jose Calida, filed a petition of “quo warranto” against the network ...

Seares: Capitol ban on fake news is limited, possibly flawed. But it’s for a crisis.

Pachico A. Seares / from February 12, 2020

“Prohibited Acts. The following acts shall be unlawful and violators shall be held criminally liable, to wit: ... 3. Spreading of false news and information in relation to 2019-nCoV-ARD in social media.” —From the Cebu Provincial Board ordinanceTHE ordinance the Cebu Provincial Board (PB)passed Monday (Feb. 10) on its express ...

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