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Seares: Fuss over a Christmas tree story and how to handle a press release

Pachico A. Seares / from November 23, 2018

DISAGREEMENT over editorial decisions made by the editor of a Sun.Star newspaper (not in Cebu) erupted and stayed briefly in Facebook in the past two weeks. They are minor controversies, particularly to most of the public, but they may shed light on how content and display in a newspaper take ...

Seares: Journalists as witnesses in illegal drugs campaign: what’s wrong with the practice

Pachico A. Seares / from November 16, 2018

WHEN Gen. Debold Sinas, regional police chief, talked last Sept. 20 at a Cebu Press Freedom Week 2018 forum in Cebu City about media persons acting as witnesses to seizure of illegal drugs, he exposed the practice of the police in paying them for the service.That surprised the audience, members ...

Seares: Banning CNN from White House: Not here, not the way Trump did it

Pachico A. Seares / from November 10, 2018

AMID the trading of accusations following the Nov. 7 suspension of CNN correspondent Jim Acosta’s press pass to the White House, the question whether the press corps should retaliate by boycotting U.S. President Trump was not even raised. It’s a no-brainer: they have no choice but to cover the President ...

Seares: Do former journalists lose the edge when sued for libel?

Pachico A. Seares / from October 26, 2018

MANUEL “Boy M” Mejorada, whose conviction for libel by the Pasay Regional Trial Court in September 2017 was affirmed last Oct. 10 by the Court of Appeals, is a former journalist in Iloilo City. At a 2014 hearing of the Senate Blue Ribbon committee, Boy M called his city “a ...

Seares: Is Miguel Osmeña, the mayor’s son who sues Nalzaro, a private person?

Pachico A. Seares / from October 19, 2018

“...It is really unfair for a private citizen like me to be maligned with no basis whatsoever by a media personality like Nalzaro.” -- Miguel OsmeñaCEBU City Mayor ‘Tomas Osmeña used the same tack in a libel complaint against broadcaster-newspaper columnist Bobby Nalzaro. Regional Trial Court Judge Gilbert P. Moises ...

Seares: PCOO or OPS, it’s still state apparatus. Private media’s job is to get the facts right.

Pachico A. Seares / from October 12, 2018

WHY are senators poking into the communication apparatus of President Duterte? Senate President Tito Sotto and Sen. Ping Lacson met recently with Duterte about their proposal to revive the Office of the Press Secretary (OPS) that will merge at least three offices that handle the president’s messages to the public.The ...

Seares: Photo-taking of journalists as threat from police: not for now?

Pachico A. Seares / from October 5, 2018

POLICE regional chief Debold Sinas did it before. He ordered that photos be taken of active police officers who would visit the wake of SPO1 Adonis Dumpit in Cebu City. Dumpit was shot dead last June 27 in Bohol by fellow law enforcers during an NBI-police operation against him on ...

Seares: Where Debold, Tomas differ on tack in dealing with media

Pachico A. Seares / from September 28, 2018

POLICE Regional Office Chief Debold Sinas has not stopped his press briefings with reporters covering the PNP beat. In contrast, Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña announced last Aug. 28 he suspended starting that day his City Hall press-cons.Sinas even went into a lions’ den of sorts, the Cebu Citizens-Press Council ...

Seares: Trillanes may suffer same ordeal journalists suffer from libel venue

Pachico A. Seares / from September 20, 2018

A COMPLAINT for libel filed in Davao City against Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV by President Duterte’s son and son-in-law has a Cebu element:• The alleged defamatory remarks were made by Trillanes in an interview conducted on Sept. 8, 2017 by Leo Lastimosa, manager of ABS-CBN’s radio station in Cebu and ...

Seares: Explosive op-ed piece in NY Times: a question of not naming the writer

Pachico A. Seares / from September 7, 2018

PRESIDENT Trump raged and ranted, angrier than usual, when the New York Times ran Wednesday (Sept. 5) an “op-ed” article titled “I am part of the resistance inside the Trump administration.”Written by a senior administration official, whom NYT said it knew but didn’t name, the piece figuratively set off Trump ...

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