Tag: media ethics

Film paintings photos, The News Media

Grace & intellect c/o Cheche Lazaro (Media in Focus, ABS-CBN)

Grace and intellect courtesy of Cheche Lazaro

Freeze-frame of a video by "Media in Focus", ABS-CBN, used here non-commercially, for review & educational purposes

(Last week’s show. All photos in this post are “freeze-frames” of “Media in Focus” videos, property of ABS-CBN News Channel, used here for review.) “Media in Focus” has a spanking new set!! It allows a wider shot that shows people’s body language in addition to their talkies. The producers as you can see also use more graphics,


Freeze-frame of a video by ABS-CBN Media in Focus used here non-commercially, for review & academic purposes

more inset images, more visuals.

Freeze-frame of a video by ABS-CBN Media in Focus used here non-commercially, for review & educational purposes

[Check out the graphics on the inset (the blog url appears! for the first time on tv — babaw kaligayahan ko (i have cheap thrills); pls. link my blog and you’ll make my day 🙂 ] The set also allows tracking shots; very effective in sustaining attention (these give the audience a multi-dimensional notion of objects within the frame). We are also able to take lessons from Cheche Lazaro’s grace and intellect — because the new design allows full-body shots (seated) — check out Cheche Lazaro’s poise, straight spine, footwork,

Freeze-frame of a video by ABS-CBN Media in Focus, used here non-commercially for review and academic purposes

the occasional sway of the arms (the staff prepared a script but she lets go of it), combined with substance, as she exchanges repartee with the interviewees and picks up the beat with her thought-provoking questions, it makes for dynamic visuals as well as interesting content. (i’m still uploading bit/parts of the video…in a bit)


constitutional law, media law, The News Media

LP “vice presidentiable”-apparent Mar Roxas fiancé Korina Sanchez, ABS-CBN junior reporter RG Cruz, & Facebook

I received an email from certain journalists who are members of journalists’ organizations (and who requested confidentiality) a letter embedded in an email, from  LP “vice presidentiable”- apparent Mar Roxas fiancé Korina Sanchez, ABS-CBN news anchor on-leave, addressed to ABS-CBN management, somehow belittling (“he doesn’t count”) her colleague ABS-CBN junior reporter RG Cruz, comparing him to Jack the Ripper, and asking for sanctions against him for his Facebook entry about a certain unidentified person described as “a First Lady wannabe…who would eventually be a bad spouse…a queen in her head without a crown…”.

I’ve already verified the authenticity of the letter thru a highly reliable source, also a media practitioner. Let me just get one more confirmation from another source on assurance and guarantee of confidentiality before i publish the letter in full. The email was sent to me in my capacity as a U.P. faculty member who teaches  Law on Mass Media; Journalism Ethics; Communication Ethics; Journalism 101; Journalism Internship; etc. Since it concerns the future spouse of a “vice presidentiable”- apparent, and who is now very much a news subject, it is worth publishing in full.

So….again, let me just get one more confirmation on assurance of confidentiality before publishing the letter in full. (you can write me.) This also serves as advance notice to the parties concerned. I’ll give the parties 24 hours’ lead time. (Because of its length, it’ll probably be serialized in three parts here, anyway, i can lay out the page for the three parts to appear in one page. Because of the nature of the  medium and the attention span of internet viewers, you must have noticed that i try to use a maximum of two pages of text per post.)