By Pauline Celerio: on abs-cbnnews.com/09/22/14/pnoy-admits-he-wanted-get-back-marcoses
“PNoy: I wanted to get back at Marcoses”
“In remembrance of Marcos’ proclamation of the Martial Law in 1972, a news-feature story was written on President Aquino’s experience during his family’s stay in Boston. In the embedded video, a snippet of PNoy’s speech was presented. It was about his struggles as a young man in Boston doing odd jobs to live. On the same site, a write-up was also included.
“In journalism, the headline should be reflective of the content. However, in this case, the headline for story was only based on one statement that President Aquino has said. It is true that he wanted to get back at the Marcoses at one point in his life back then, but it was not, in any way, the focus of the whole story.
“The journalist xxx (who wrote the head) improperly emphasized one statement that wasn’t even the whole point of the content.
“ “Make certain that headlines, news teases and promotional material, photos, video, audio, graphics, sound bites and quotations do not misrepresent. They should not oversimplify or highlight incidents out of context.”
“ “I shall scrupulously report and interpret the news, taking care not to suppress essential facts nor to distort the truth by omission or improper emphasis.”
“In this modern day and age, news platforms transcend the usual online websites—they branch out to other social networking sites to generate a lot of other audiences. I saw this post on Twitter, and because Twitter was designed to only have maximum of 140 characters per tweet, only the headline was posted, and then the link. As far as experience goes, people who read news on Twitter satisfy themselves on reading only the headline. Misleading headlines distort the truth of the matter at hand, and it misinforms the people on what actually happened, which is of course, the opposite of what journalism should accomplish.”
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by Darien: on text hoaxes
“The news xxx (on) the recently debunked hoax that there was going to be a bombardment of cosmic rays from Mars which was debunked by practically every news network in the Philippines: The hoax spread through text messaging and looked something like this:
“ “Good evening! I-off mamaya ang mga cellphone natin 10:30 p.m. till 3:30 a.m. dahil sa malakas na radiation at cosmic rays, nuclear atomic. Binalita ni Kuya Kim at sa CNN and BBC sa Skycable. Delikado, namamatay daw. ‘Wag itabi ang cellphone sa pagtulog mamaya. Kindly share na lang din sa ibang friends natin.”
“I had serious doubts when I received the text message myself because of the suspicious nature of the text, and the poor scientific accuracy of it in general. (I watch a lot of discovery channel) When the news networks decided to write on the issue at hand, they finally debunked the entire thing as a hoax and made sure that nobody was going to die from cosmic rays from Mars, nuclear atomic (whatever that meant). This particular situation shows how important a role the media plays in disseminating information and making sure that the public is properly informed on issues at hand. This particular hoax has been circulating since 2010. Every major news network enlightened the public that the texts they received were nothing but mere hoaxes and that they had nothing to fear from their phones, or outer space. I commend GMA, ABS-CBN, and TV5 for doing the public a great service by not allowing them to be misinformed.”
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by Kristina Rivera: on Rappler
“ (On)The bench underwear fashion show xxx Photos of famous celebrities stripped down to their undies went viral on the internet.
“Even Rappler posted an article about the “best GIF celebrity performances”. At first, this made me raise an eyebrow because Rappler? Posting such an article? With the description “Ellen Adarna gets undressed, a girl-on-girl kiss, an on-stage makeout, Jake Cuenca’s butt, and other highlights in gifs and pictures” Even their monitor that tracks readers’ feelings for the subject showed that the readers “don’t care about the article” with their phrases like “Martin del Rosario slipping his hand down his brief”
“Although I didn’t think it was appropriate for Rappler to post such an article with lines of showcasing “Jake Cuenca’s butt”, it makes it a dilemma for me because it was a little disappointing for Rappler to release this article; but then again, they did correctly label it as Entertainment news. They also posted a warning in the article “WARNING: Some of these photos are not safe for work. The show did not allow entry to those under 18 years old.” which I guess somehow makes it more acceptable.
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by Kath Turlao: on n5e.interaksyon.com/lalaking-nasawi-raw-sa-pag-ibig-nangagat-sa-bar
“A crime report showed at Interaksyon Tv5 was entitled “Lalaking nasawi raw sa pag-ibig, nangagat sa bar.” This was a news story about a man who bit the manager of the bar without any reason. Of course, the expected action is for the manager to file a complaint against this man and so it happened.
“One ethical standard for a journalist is to ‘make certain that headlines do not misrepresent. They should not oversimplify or highlight incidents out of context.’ Here, I found the headline very misleading. As I watch the news report, the police mention that the attack was caused by being too drunk. The alleged man also admitted that he was able to that because he was under the influence of alcohol.The reason the man bit manager of the bar because of being heart broken was given by his friend who too, was drunk during the time of interview.”
