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

Pachico A. Seares / from October 07, 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 06, 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 ...

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 ...

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