“i see dead people” Media Monitor

blog admin’s note: the pertinent provision is from the broadcast code but the media have merged/ converged in the internet, hence, we widened the search and applied the principle online…

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by giancoante on: philstar.com/news-feature/2014/10/30/specters-and-other-spooks-malacanang

     ” “The Malacañang Palace is not only rich in historical tales, it is also rife with haunted and supernatural stories.”

      “The article above is a feature article on ghostly sightings in Malacañang taken from the Palace website. The article narrates stories of disembodied priests, headless guards, haunted pianos, balls of fire, kapres, among others. According to Article 13 of the KBP Code of Ethics for Broadcast Media, “programs featuring superstitions shall not induce belief in them.” Although the article features these supernatural stories, there are attempts to debunk them. For example, Wig Tysmans, the photographer who took the panoramic shot of the Palace featuring a headless guard, explained that long exposure caused the phenomenon. “The now-immortalized security personnel must have held his pose throughout the exposure, only to move his head before it ended,” according to the website. This is ethical because it does not induce belief by presenting a logical explanation. However, not all stories were given logical explanations such as the moving cellist painting and the disembodied priests.”

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by Pauline Celerio on: gmanetwork.com/news/story/publicaffairs/aha/true-horror-stories-sa-aha
“xxx AHA’s special entitled “True Horror Stories.” However, what I will be analyzing will not be the video itself, but the teaser article that is published on GMA News Online. xxx the writing style on the article was scattered with “daw”. The word “daw” meaning, they are not espoused and promoted by the show itself, but a general belief of the populace. The writer did not make the claim himself, and attributed what he has written to a belief that somehow, he framed, as “accepted.” xxx the mere presentation and labeling of a story about occult as “True”, means that there is a promotion that such events are real. Is it ethical to air a “true ghost story” without backing it up with facts?
“I am in dilemma right now. As I have written before, the purpose of airing topics like these is related to the commemoration of the dead itself, and the ever-pervading interest of the Filipinos for stories of the unexplained.
“ “True ghost stories”, they said. But in the end, they questioned its validity, and has not made any claims that it was really true.”
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