Tag: “Media in Focus”

Criminal law, media law, The News Media

Postscript. Comments in YouTube on the snippet-video. & excerpts Inquirer editorial

  Comments in YouTube on this snippet-video:

just one teeny-weeny bit: don’t pluralize evidence (it’s like “furniture”, “footage”, “equipment”, etc.– no plural form)

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From vgabrie at  vgabrie   (1 day ago)

          “Over analyzing Ted Failon himself? I don’t think so.

          “Evidences on the crime scene has been cleaned up, all the forensic evidences gathered are inconclusive if not lacking; including the parafin tests done on Ted and Trina . Sworn affidavits from all parties concerned, many details don’t even jive

still of a video, ABS-CBN
still of a video, ABS-CBN

 

 

“Presumption of innocence? Sure, but there should be good evidences to support the whole story that happened – i.e., rules of evidence. Otherwise, talk is cheap.”

 

 

 

 

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 From obalajadia at obalajadia    (1 day ago)  

           “Yes, it is over-analyzing Ted Failon. It stems from his status as a broadcaster. If such happened to an ordinary citizen like you and me, the barangay captain and his tanods will come to check the matter and will just confirm the matters to the municipal council and the police for autopsy and issuance of death certificate. That’s all. It happened to my acquaintances and relatives and what did you hear about those? Nothing. Because we are not Ted Failons. This is all political and media circus.”

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 From thedens29 at  thedens29   (1 day ago)  

      “yes you have a good point. My point is hindi ko manlang narinig ang word Christianity o pag ka Cristiano ni Ted Failon. or familyang Failon. (All media are having unfair Practice) kung sa Muslim family ito I am sure they will say (those Muslim) or Muslim family. etc… “ 

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 Excerpts: Editorial  Philippine Daily Inquirer

“Rumormongers

First Posted 01:52:00 04/25/2009

       “POLICE investigations are supposed to bring to light the crucial facts of a crime and provide a clearer picture of what happened.

         “With the case of Trinidad Arteche Etong, wife of popular broadcaster Ted Failon now fully in the hands of the National Bureau of Investigation, we hope that the investigation will finally move in this direction.

       “While the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) was handling the investigation, all it accomplished was to muddle the Etong case with disinformation, insinuations, speculations, and excessive use of force, in the process provoking national outrage against QCPD policemen and shifting the issue to police abuse instead of bringing the case closer to a resolution, and so it never came close to establishing whether Etong’s death was a case of suicide or parricide.

        “Take this for instance: Even as the details of the shooting of Etong remained hazy, a ranking QCPD officer was telling the media there were bruises on the popular broadcaster’s arms (in effect insinuating that husband and wife had a spat before the shooting) and that the shooting itself could have occurred inside one of Failon’s car. Both “leads” turned out to be false.

        “Such recklessness was matched only by Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez who relayed to the media a text message from an anonymous source, saying that a certain friend Delfin Lee was at the Etongs’ residence when the shooting happened and he helped move the wounded Ms Etong from a bed to the bathroom where Failon claimed he found her. xxx”

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Criminal law, media law, The News Media

So i won’t get misquoted: gist: “The media overanalyzed Ted Failon himself rather than giving enough information on the physical evidence.” (interview, Marichu Lambino)

     i uploaded  a small snippet  only (small na  snippet pa) of a clip, or only about 60 seconds,  and for purposes of review only in this space.    

      The topic of last Thursday’s “Media in Focus” show of ABS-CBN news cable was the media coverage of the Ted Failon story. The guests were: psychiatrist Dr. June Pagaduan-Lopez,  journalist Ding Gagelonia, New York Times Caloy Conde, Vice President for News  Maria Ressa, and ……. someone whose hair was dripping wet.

       The host, Cheche Lazaro, as always , was well-prepared, and she was reading materials on the topic before the show and she did some pre-prod mini-interviews  of the guests casually, to make them comfortable and anticipate the discussion (pre-production mini-interviews).  Maria Ressa was both unassuming and authoritative on media issues, both theory and practice, the crew was at ease around her, and she walked without any alalays or assistants in tow ( i  like people who can walk around their building without any retinue.), and she jotted down notes in between discussion on an ordinary reporter’s notebook  instead of those fancy electronic I-pod gadgets that take at least four to seven clicks to turn.

        The show was segmentized, probably to have layers to it, different levels of discussion.

         The producers said the show got  favorable feedback afterwards.

     The gist of what i said:   said something like: It was not so much the right to privacy that was involved (because a public figure would not be able to invoke right to privacy in a criminal investigation that involved him); and so what was involved was what author Pefecto Fernandez framed as the right of a free press versus the right to a fair trial; in his discourse, the possible abuses outlined were as follows: sensationalism, vigilantism, excessive publicity, and prejudicial publicity (he then discussed the cases to illustrate).

      I also said that the media overanalyzed Ted Failon himself rather than giving enough information on the physical evidence, etc.

       (i think there’s one more replay over the weekend, so just google the schedule  if you want to catch the entire show.)