On the GMA news network headline: “CBCP readies for RH battle before SC, Villegas vows fight for church beliefs”
At gmanetwork.com/news/nation/cbcp-readies-for-rh-battle-before-sc-villegas-vows-fight-for-church-beliefs
“Today, July 9, major online news portals headline the RH “showdown” that will be finally held in the Supreme Court, deciding if ever the long overdue passing of the long-time shelfed bill will finally turn into one of this country’s laws. I have read two other news articles which also report said RH showdown (Inquirer.net’s and Rappler’s). What struck me most is the differences in the way each headline was written. Inquirer has “Showdown on RH law” while Rappler has “RH law showdown moves to SC”. Evidently so, GMA News’s report, with just its chosen title, already puts a bias on its news story, only pertaining to the implications of the CBCP regarding today’s RH fuss.
“That in the Journalist’s Code of Ethics, aptly first in the list of eleven main guidelines is it mentioned that the journalist “shall scrupulously report and interpret the news, taking care not to suppress essential face or to distort the truth by omission or improper emphasis”. In Inquirer’s and Rappler’s report, they each present other parties involved in said RH showdown, while GMA News only puts importance on what the CBCP comments on the presentation of the RH bill to the SC. This becomes of disservice to the reader such that other important details about the RH showdown, the pro- and anti-RH parties that will also voice out their own arguments, are being left out just to, I suppose, create some CBCP-related controversy once again.” Posted by Awarewolf.
The CBCP* said tonight that it was disgusted with the Reproductive Health Bill vote rejecting the Garcia amendment and the amendment itself.
Addressing anti-RH bill solons, its spokesperson said, “Aren’t you aware of the latest pronouncement of the CBCP? The proposed amendment that reproductive health services be made available
“to all married persons” , from the original “to all persons” is incomplete, and betrays an infantile understanding of the latest expression of Catholic doctrine. We have just endorsed “Breaking Dawn 2” of the “Twilight” series. Please read our favourable review and endorsement of the movie published in our website and reported by the news media. Don’t you read the newspapers and look at the internet? That proposed amendment should have read: “to all married persons andvampires, ghouls, zombies, incubus, banshees, aswangs without prejudice to the inclusion of werewolves, elves, dwarves, and mummies”.
The CBCP* spokesperson added, “Henceforth, all who refer to said creatures as the undead shall be excommunicated. It is a form of prejudice which the CBCP shall not countenance. The undead from now on shall be referred to as “differently alive” , “living impaired” , “ or “living challenged” , in keeping with our sensitivity to their condition. Why should they continue to bear the yoke of 500 years oppression of vampires? Equal rights for the differently alive.”
The CBCP* said it will issue a new set of instructions this week.
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* CBCP: Catholics for Bampira Conference of the Philippines
