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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 ...

What caused the headline glitch?

Pachico A. Seares / from August 09, 2019

LACK of space and tightness of deadline are often blamed for any failure or mistake of editing. And New York Times editors tagged the usual culprits in their post-mortem on the Aug. 6 Trump headline.Which are plausible and yet not totally acceptable since limits on newspaper space and time are ...

Seares: Firestorm over the Times headline: How much a news story’s heading can tell

Pachico A. Seares / from August 09, 2019

THE Page 1 banner headline in “The New York Times” of Tuesday (Aug. 6) said “Trump Urges Unity vs. Racism,” on top of a news story about U.S. President Trump addressing the weekend’s two mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio.Was the headline wrong because the story said ...

Seares: SC, in slapping Raffy Tulfo P1M damages, sets example, punishes

Pachico A. Seares / from July 26, 2019

THE damages awarded by the Supreme Court third division against broadcaster-newspaper columnist Raffy Tulfo and seven representatives of owners of the tabloid “Abante Tonite” for libel totaled P1.71 million. They were ordered to pay businessman complainant Michael Guy P500,000 moral damages, P1 million exemplary damages, and P211,200 attorney’s fees.The SC ...

Seares: SC policy on libel hasn’t removed jail term, isn’t limited to journalists

Pachico A. Seares / from July 19, 2019

Libel still has to be decriminalized but 11 years ago, the Supreme Court (SC) took one step towards it. The high tribunal did not change the law; only Congress and the President can do that. It merely set what it called a “rule of preference” for judges in imposing penalty ...

Seares: Where PPI can help local papers in surviving market, industry changes

Pachico A. Seares / from July 12, 2019

THE Philippine Press Institute (PPI) is billed as “the association of Philippine newspapers” although most of its members are community publications or local newspapers, the media group they used to call the provincial press. A few “national” newspapers also actively take part in PPI.Its two-day annual press forum is usually ...

Seares: Leaving out race, nationality in crime stories: suspects, victims

Pachico A. Seares / from June 28, 2019

NEWSPAPER A:Mandaue City Police are now investigating the ambush-slay of a Filipino-Chinese businessman and the wounding of his children on Sunday night, June 16.Newspaper B:A Filipino-Chinese businessman was killed while two of his children were wounded when they were ambushed in Barangay Cubacub, Mandaue City Sunday night.Newspaper C:An unidentified man ...

Seares: The Tito Sotto ‘twas a joke’ plea What news media may need to do

Pachico A. Seares / from June 28, 2019

SENATE President Vicente Sotto III squeezed himself out of a tight situation involving credibility when he said he was speaking “tongue-in-cheek” about the difficulty of determining where fish at Filipino-owned Recto Bank actually came from. They could be from China, he said, in the same way that fish from the ...

Seares: Handcuffing journalists arrested for libel: how else must media be treated?

Pachico A. Seares / from June 19, 2019

“Ilonggo journalists are not whiners like Maria Ressa. We take libel in court minus the melodrama.”--Luis Buenaflor Jr., in his column “Just Another Day” (Panay News, June 17, 2019)LAST June 11, Iloilo’s chapter of NUJP (National Union of Journalists of the Philippines) questioned the “manner of arrest of two media ...

Seares: Journalists sued for libel do not sue back, as a rule. But they can

Pachico A. Seares / from June 14, 2019

RAPPLER CEO Maria Ressa on Feb. 18, 2019, a day after posting bail when she was charged with cyber libel, called the lawsuit an act of “naked intimidation to quash critical reporting” of President Duterte. She intoned, “As a journalist, I will hold the government to account.”Last May 13, veteran ...

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