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

Pachico A. Seares / from August 9, 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 ...

Seares: Toning down Tulfo ‘brand of journalism’ carries stiff price

Pachico A. Seares / from June 5, 2019

AMID the furor in the past few days over broadcaster Erwin Tulfo’s rant against DSWD chief Rolando Bautista, a watcher of the media scene commented whether there’s such a thing as “Tulfo brand of journalism.” “As a media practitioner,” the comment ran, “I only know two kinds: good journalism and ...

Seares: Miguel Osmeña vs. Bobby Nalzaro: Public figure as ‘unknown libel defense’

Pachico A. Seares / from May 24, 2019

n Related “Media’s Public” column: “Is Miguel Osmeña, the mayor’s son who sues Nalzaro, a private person?” [Oct. 19, 2018]THE prosecutor handling the criminal complaint of libel filed in October 2018 by Ramon Miguel V. Osmena, son of Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña, has decided to charge broadcaster-newspaper columnist Pablito ...

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