By Pachico A. Seares Public & Standards Editor Sun.Star Cebu and Sun.Star Superbalita [Cebu] Resolution #9615, as amended, that implemented the Fair Election Act for the 2013 elections, enjoined media: (1) “to scrupulously report and interpret the news, taking care not to suppress essential facts or distort the truth by omission or improper emphasis”: (2) [...]
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By Pachico A. Seares Public & Standards Editor Sun.Star Cebu and Sun.Star Superbalita [Cebu] The Fair Election Act banned publication of election survey results 15 days and seven days before national and local elections to avoid “trending” and the so-called bandwagon effect. Authors of Republic Act 9006 imposed the ban under its section 5.4. The [...]
By Pachico A. Seares Public & Standards Editor Sun.Star Cebu and Sun.Star Superbalita [Cebu] Case 1: From London or whereever Ian Charles Griffiths is, Bella Ruby Santos’s lover and co-accused in the killing of grader Ella Joy Pique issued on April 19 a press statement criticizing the media for calling him “at large” when, he [...]
By Pachico A. Seares Public & Standards Editor Sun.Star Cebu and Sun.Star Superbalita [Cebu] “Section 10. All members of the news media, television, radio, print or online, shall scrupulously report and interpret the news, taking care not to suppress essential facts or distort the truth by omission or improper emphasis. They shall recognize the duty [...]
By Pachico A. Seares Public & Standards Editor Sun.Star Cebu and Sun.Star Superbalita [Cebu] Two complaints on practices of some journalists were aired during the week: one, publicly by Msgr. Achilles Dakay, media liaison officer of the Cebu Archdiocese, and the other, privately in a politician’s conversation with media persons. “Mons” Dakay griped that broadcasters [...]
By Pachico A. Seares Public & Standards Editor Sun.Star Cebu and Sun.Star Superbalita [Cebu] It’s now known that Pope Francis shunned staying at the archbishop’s palace for a modest apartment, a chauffeur-driven car for a bus or subway, and press-cons for an uncomplicated life without media. He may have to revise attitudes and habits.
By Pachico A. Seares Public & Standards Editor Sun.Star Cebu and Sun.Star Superbalita [Cebu] Kill the thought that the Comelec procedure for election candidates to complain against violation of right of reply (RoR) will unleash a flood of complaints from them–not likely. The procedure, laid down by Resolution #9615 as amended by Resolution #9631, is [...]
By Pachico A. Seares Public & Standards Editor Sun.Star Cebu and Sun.Star Superbalita [Cebu] Among the questions, issues, and case studies the Cebu Citizens-Press Council (CCPC) is compiling for its forum on election coverage (Thursday, March 7, 2013, MBF Cebu Press Center) is that raised by Mildred Galarpe, a Sun.Star Online editor: Why does it [...]
By Pachico A. Seares Public & Standards Editor Sun.Star Cebu and Sun.Star Superbalita [Cebu] This story goes around every election season but it hasn’t been discussed in public forums about media coverage: Philippine broadcast networks, or some of them, prohibit their announcers, anchorpersons, and reporters to talk on air about any politician or political party [...]
By Pachico A. Seares Public & Standards Editor Sun.Star Cebu and Sun.Star Superbalita [Cebu] Columns are different from news. In most newspapers, there are separate labels for one and the other. The purpose is not to mislead readers and to enable them to make an informed judgment, knowing what is news and what is opinion. [...]