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Seares: Capitol, Cebu City Hall failed in 2 'fake news' lawsuits: the posts were not deemed false

Pachico A. Seares / from November 09, 2020

TWO complaints initiated separately by the Cebu Provincial Capitol and Cebu City Hall against alleged violators of the laws against spreading false news or information tend to show that local leaders have a different understanding of what constitutes criminal falsehood.What the LGU heads saw as fake news and punishable in ...

Seares: Reporter suspended for exposing himself on Zoom. Why USA Today decides to endorse a candidate. When SunStar took down a councilor’s photo.

Pachico A. Seares / from October 21, 2020

Journo’s freedom of expression“Forbes” reported that Jeffrey Toobin, a “New Yorker” reporter and CNN legal analyst, “unwittingly exposed himself” during a Zoom call with colleagues and some staffers of a New York radio station. He was suspended Monday, October 19, by New Yorker and took a leave from CNN.“The Guardian,” ...

Seares: Reporting both sides: when the journalist goes beyond 'he-said, she said' and calls out the lie.

Pachico A. Seares / from September 15, 2020

[] New York Times headlines: 1. "Fact Check: Trump falsely claims 99% of virus cases are 'totally harmless'" (July 7, 2020). 2. "Trump falsely targets Buffalo protester, 75, as 'Antifa Provocateur'" (June 22, 2020)[] Posted on Facebook September 11, 2020 by Queenie Bronce, former editor-in-chief of Cebu's The Freeman: "Journalism ...

Seares: Cayetano concedes: ABS-CBN case is a press freedom issue, just not totally.

Pachico A. Seares / from July 16, 2020

"The ABS-CBN case has not, nor has it ever been, purely an issue of free speech or freedom of the press." -- House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano, February 18, 2020[RELATED READING: "CCPC: Why the ABS-CBN case is a press freedom issue," SunStar, July 12, 2020. "The strange, curious case of ...

Seares: What Anti-Terrorism Act safeguards for journalists. What it does not.

Pachico A. Seares / from July 06, 2020

WHAT Republic Act #11479, or Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020, specifies for journalists in some kind of protective gesture is found in the provision on surveillance of suspected terrorists.Communications between journalists and their sources are lumped with those between lawyers and clients, doctors and patients, and confidential business correspondence: They cannot ...

Seares: News media, other cyber users have large stake in at least 3 issues in Ressa-Santos libel appeal

Pachico A. Seares / from July 02, 2020

[Related Media’s Public articles: June 22, June 20, June 17, June 16, June 15]THERE are a few journalists who believe the cyber-libel complaint filed against Rappler executive editor and CEO Maria Ressa and former researcher-writer Reynaldo Santos Jr. is not, by itself, an assault on press freedom. They contend that ...

Seares: RTC could have imposed a fine, instead of jail term, on Ressa, Santos. It did not.

Pachico A. Seares / from June 22, 2020

[RELATED ARTICLES: Media's Public in SunStar, June 20, 17, 16, 15.]THE Manila Regional Trial Court imposed in its June 15 decision, which found Rappler executive editor and CEO Maria Ressa and researcher-writer Reynaldo Santos Jr. guilty of libel, the penalty of six months and one day to six years and ...

Seares: Ressa, Santos didn't refute with evidence the 're-publication' theory. It might have blown libel complaint off the water.

Pachico A. Seares / from June 20, 2020

RELATED ARTICLES: [] RTC ruling gives Ressa, Santos a tutorial on journalism standards, press freedom, June 17 [] What worked against Ressa, Santos, June 16 [] Ressa, Santos convicted under law that specifies no prescriptive period, June 15.AT A GLANCE, PLAINLY: The article was posted on a day when the ...

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 ...

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