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Seares: What’s wrong with Trump’s rant: as Ivanka, NYT publisher see it

Pachico A. Seares / from August 3, 2018

AS U.S. President Trump intensified his attacks on American media this week -- his “fake news” diatribe morphing into “enemy of the people” blast -- two incidents have shed some light into the controversy.Watchers of the White House and the constant turbulence that whips it say Trump’s agenda is clear. ...

Seares: Banning reporter from press-con: motive for shutout is core issue

Pachico A. Seares / from July 28, 2018

LAST Wednesday (Thursday, July 26 in the Philippines), CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins was banned from a White House Rose Garden event that was supposed to be open to media. Last Feb. 20, Pia Ranada, reporter of digital news site Rappler, was barred from the New Executive Building in Malacañang where ...

Seares: Why law on campus press freedom has not worked and may never work

Pachico A. Seares / from July 21, 2018

Related Media’s Public column: Is campus press less free than professional media? (April 21, 2018)THE Campus Journalism Act (CJA) of 1991 just turned 27 years old about two weeks ago. What has its old age, almost three decades, shown?The law, signed by then president Corazon Aquino last July 5, 1991, ...

Seares: ‘Insinuation’ in news story helped convict Bohol publisher

Pachico A. Seares / from July 14, 2018

Related Media’s Public column, “Bohol publisher convicted, nailed on issue of malice,” Sun.Star Cebu, July 7, 2018 THE news story in the Bohol Balita Daily News (BBDN) was defamatory, the court ruled in convicting publisher-editor Jonny Orioque, because it “insinuated” that complainant Alfonso “Ae” Damalerio, Bohol provincial administrator, meddled in the ...

Seares: Bohol publisher convicted, nailed on issue of malice

Pachico A. Seares / from July 6, 2018

THE publisher-editor of Bohol Balita Daily News (BBDN), a Boholano-Bisaya tabloid based in Tagbilaran City, has just been convicted of libel. And these were cited as major reasons for the court finding malice and declaring him guilty:* The paper’s reporter, who was not included in the complaint, cited as his ...

Seares: PCOO defends serial errors: ‘it can happen to the best news organization’

Pachico A. Seares / from June 29, 2018

WHEN last June 13, the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) in a press release identified Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian as “Sen. Winston Gatchalian,” it was not the first blunder that exploded on the state agency’s face.Two days before that, on June 11, PCOO’s press statement expressing condolence on the death of ...

Seares: Media can help in curbing abuse in ‘tambays’ campaign

Pachico Seares / from June 23, 2018

PRESIDENT Duterte talked about arresting loiterers or “tambays” on street-sides and public places last Sept. 18, 2017. But it is only this week that police began cracking down in a massive scale on vagrants, resulting in the arrest of more than 3,000 people in Metro Manila, with similar campaigns in ...

Seares: Is fake news protected speech? Law defining fake news is crucial

Pachico Seares / from June 16, 2018

“Is fake news, as defined by CCPC (Cebu Citizens-Press Council), unprotected speech? Can fake news be regulated by post-publication penalty?”-- Wayne Agramon, University of Cebu law student, in an e-mailWHEN Harry Roque, presidential spokesman, tangled with Sen. Grace Poe on Senate Bill #1680 proposing to punish the publication of false ...

Seares: Media coverage of courts may not be getting better

Pachico Seares / from June 1, 2018

A SERIES of “Hustisya Natin” training sessions on “monitoring the judiciary” held last year in the cities of Baguio, Iloilo, Cebu, Davao, Cagayan de Oro and Bacolod did not just take up the usual problems of media coverage of the justice system. The project pushed further the need for collaboration ...

Seares: News leaks: leakers are liable but journalists bear risk too

Pachico Seares / from May 26, 2018

A WHITE HOUSE aide commented last May 13 that they need not mind cancer-victim Sen. John McCain (Rep.-Arizona), who had opposed the appointment of Gina Haspel as the U.S. first woman CIA chief, saying “he’s going to die anyway.” Soon enough, the cruel remark was leaked, drawing flak from the ...

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