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hopeless_race : Mukhang tikom ang bibig ng lahat pagdating sa diskarte ng mga politiko sa pagutang ng mga bilyon bilyon sa gobyerno na tinatakbuhan. Itong pamamaraan na ito ang tunay na kumakain ng malaking porsyento ng ating national budget batay na din sa sinasabi ng world bank.
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hopeless_race : Nagmimistulang "small time" lamang ang malversation of funds kumpara sa laki ng kinakamal ng mga umuutang sa gobyerno. At ito ay malinaw na natatakbuhan dahil hindi nga naman pwede makulong ang may-ari ng kumpanya sa pagkaka-utang lamang. Tunay na mga tuso at magagaling sa batas itong mga politiko natin. Masasabi ko na malamang lahat ng mga politiko ganito ang diskarte...wala pang kulong.
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Journalists as bloggers: The forum

Posted by: Avigail Olarte | October 22, 2005 at 1:16 pm
Filed under: Media, Science and Technology

ABOUT 50 journalists from the print, broadcast and the online media gathered today at Linden Suites to swap their stories on blogging and discuss where blogging would take journalism.

Blogging is challenging the way mainstream media cover news events by opening up a whole new world of opportunities for journalists who could either make blogs as a rich source of information for their stories or become bloggers themselves and provide a more comprehensive, detailed, and descriptive coverage of events in free form, without the usual constraints of reporting, said PCIJ executive director Sheila Coronel.

"The beauty of blogging is you can do a blow-by-blow account," Coronel said.

Alecks Pabico, PCIJ

Pabico, PCIJ’s online manager, cited the center’s experience at the height of "Gloriagate." PCIJ, he said, was the first to post documents and audio files in relation to the political crisis that arose from phone conversations between Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and elections commissioner Virgilio Garcillano shortly after last year’s elections. These included, among others, the MP3 versions and transcripts of the full-text of the three-hour taped conversations and the other shorter versions, the amended impeachment complaint filed in Congress and the affidavit of Michaelangelo Zuce, Garcillano’s nephew.

There is as yet no definitive study of the Philippine blogospere but some available statistics do offer glimpses of the growth of the phenomenon in recent years. For instance, Blogwise, Pabico said, ranks the Philippines tenth among 194 countries in terms of the number of blogs. Referring to a preliminary study of the top 100 Pinoy blogs done by Now What, Cat?, he said that while more than half of Filipino blogs are rolling personal journals and 14 percent are entertainment blogs, an interesting development is that 12 percent of the blogs now deal with news and politics. Furthermore, three media- or news-related blogs figure among the top 10 popular blogs — The Sassy Lawyer, Inside PCIJ and Manolo Quezon’s blog.

Pabico called 2005 "the year of Filipino blogs," largely brought about by the Gloriagate crisis, which he also credited for the rise of journalist-bloggers. He lamented, however, that the blogging phenomenon has still not been met with much enthusiasm by the mainstream media, which have been generally slow in grasping the potential of the medium for journalism.

How do journalists blog? Pabico said the journalism/t blogs he has surveyed range from personal journalism (e.g. Quezon’s, Howie Severino’s Side Trip, Jove Francisco’s By Jove), collective blogging (PCIJ and Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility) and experiments in citizen journalism (Sunstar).

Click here for the slides.

Max Limpag, Sunstar, Leon Kilat: The Cybercafe Experiments

Limpag, who is in charge of the website of Sun.Star Cebu, talked about how the paper came out with the blog, Arroyo Watch, which has caught the attention of bloggers at the height of the calls for Arroyo to resign in light of the "Hello, Garci" controversy. Limpag said the decision that prompted Sunstar to put up one was that blogs were easier to manage than websites and are especially helpful in real-time reporting. Blogging has also afforded their readers to comment on articles easily and immediately, as compared to the usual text or letter-to-the-editor type of feedback.

Sun.Star later on put up another blog, Citizen Journalism, where readers are ecnouraged to post articles rather than just comments. While their readers are still more comfortable posting comments, Limpag said what’s important is that they have the mechanism for such.

See the slides here and the accompanying text here.

Jove Francisco, ABC 5, By Jove!

"In blogging we have more space, we can put more detail and it does not have the usual constraints of broadcast reporting," said Francisco, senior reporter of ABC-5 covering Malacañang. He added that in blogs, one cane have more room for creativity. The newscast, he said, is usually confined to the "tired and tested" style of reporting.

He gave as an example his coverage of the State of the Nation Address, where he posted a photo essay and provided more context on the issue (as the lack of airtime limits the amount of detail one can put into the report). He said this is especially useful and important for Filipinos abroad who have no access to local news on television. In his blog, one also gets a look inside the events at Malacanang in a different perspective because he leads the reader to details (or gives another version, altogether) that mainstream media often miss.

Though blogging is basically free from censorship, Francisco said one has to exercise caution and responsibility. "It has to be the truth," he said.

For the presentation, click here.

Atty. JJ Disini, UP Law Internet and Society Program, Tales from Disiniland

Lawyer Disini talked about libel and the elements of the law on sedition. He also cited issues of a person’s right to privacy and copyright infringement.

On the issue of fair use, Disini talked about the purpose and character of use, the nature of the copyrighted work, the amount of portion used, and the effect on the market. "If you’re copying the work not for commercial purposes, that’s safer. Also, the less you use (of the article) the better off you are." Fair use allows one to cut-and-paste as long as one cites the source or link it to the source of the report, he said.

Another issue is linking, Disini said, where some websites require linking of the entire site. But, he said, there was a case in the US where the court ruled that linking is a form of electronic cataloguing and thereby allowing you to link to any site you want.

Click here for the entire presentation.

Rachel Khan, UP College of Mass Communication, Freedom Watch

Khan discussed the ethical issues in blogging.

One of the reasons given for trusting blogs is niche expertise, where one is known as a credible source of information for a particular field or issue. Other reasons are transparency in process, where one divulges their sources of information, and another is that responsibility that comes in blogging where one has to be quick to publish the corrections made in an entry with an apology beside it.

Khan said there are many code of ethics for blogging, but considers the code of ethics of bloggers of the Society of Professional Journalists to be among the best. The code can be accessed from Cyberjournalist.

See the presentation, Freedom on the Net, here.

Tina Panganiban-Perez, GMA Network, crimson page

Perez talked about corporate issues faced by journalists-bloggers. She said that when she and another GMA reporter, Joseph Morong, started their own blogs, the network made sure they had to comply with certain guidelines. One of those, she said, was that they could not blog about work or anything connected to the GMA network. When they were also asked to exercise caution on taking their stand on issues, they argued that the blogs are supposedly personal entries that networks should not meddle with. They said that blogs could in fact work to the advantage of the networks.

For Perez’s presentation, click here.

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11 people have left comments

Hey Alecks! The links to Max Limpag’s and Jove’s powerpoint presentations are dead…

Punzi wrote on October 24, 2005 - 5:53 am | Visit Link

Hey !!! your blogosphere is more progressive then Thai. ha ha, that the real thing, almost Thai reporters don’t know what so-called BLOG !!!

golffee wrote on October 24, 2005 - 8:22 am | Visit Link

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pressgang Public Co., Ltd. » Blog Archive » ?????????????????????? wrote on October 24, 2005 - 8:30 am | Visit Link

Punzi,

Wrong path (in the case of Max’s) and filename — Jove’s is a document file, not a Powerpoint presentation. You can access them now.

Alecks Pabico wrote on October 24, 2005 - 12:19 pm | Visit Link

Alecs,

I asked Yuga to e-mail you regarding your reference to me as Filipino blogger and a HE.

When you asked for permission to use my study about blogging trends, I assumed that you know that I am SHE and not a HE because I got my caricature in my front page. Besides, Why the use of Filipino blogger, when I have my website title, Now What , Ca t?

cathy wrote on October 24, 2005 - 9:00 pm | Visit Link

[...] It has been two days now that Yuga e-mailed Alecs Pabico of the PCIJ fame about the wrong reference to me as a he in their blog entry entitled The Journalists as bloggers. [...]

Now What, Cat? » I am not smiling wrote on October 24, 2005 - 9:40 pm | Visit Link

Hi Cathy,

Do give the sentence construction one more look as it was me being referred to as having referred to your study. So there is no error in the use of the pronoun he. But for your pleasure, I will change the reference in that sentence to “Filipino blogger” to the name of your blog. Hope that fixes things up.

Alecks Pabico wrote on October 24, 2005 - 11:27 pm | Visit Link

there, there… i hope everybody’s happy now. cheers!

yuga wrote on October 27, 2005 - 6:39 pm | Visit Link

I never did subscribe to the “if you don’t like my blog, then leave” mentality. That’s akin to seeing a detestable billboard and being told to just look away. Nevertheless, life is short and I’d rather not get riled up, so I have “looked away” from such blogs as “Now What, Cat?” and “The Sassy Lawyer”.

So why, Alecks? Why did you have to bring them here.

I did find myself on the same side as Cathy’s, once, during Inquirer’s Sellout brouhaha, but a revisit during the ja-Faye-k fiasco surely erased any goodwill from that. She dishes out but can not take it, demands corrections but does not entertain it and expects understanding but does not impart it. She’s quick to make herself a martyr, does not hesitate to champion the causes of undeserving underdogs and is unapologetic when cornered. Is it any wonder then, that she ignores her pronoun lapse even after being pointed out to her?

Here’s a wonderful scene from the movie City Slickers…
Phil Berquist: Where are you from?
Ben Jessup: Baltimore. We have a dental practice there.
Mitch Robbins: Really, you’re both dentists?
Steve Jessup: Yes! We’re black AND we’re dentists. Let’s not make an issue out of it.
Ben Jessup: Eh, they’re not making an issue of it. You’re making an issue of it.

Was that really Steve Jessup speaking? I thought it was the Cat.

Anyway, let’s move on to The Sassy Lawyer. Careful, watch out for the eggshells. I used to enjoy her attention to the facts and her diligence in steering dicussions based on its merits but her heavyhanded approach and strong anti-Catholic stance soon turned me off. It’s absurd that people have to actually state their ex-Catholic status just to gain credibility in her eyes. Just look at her Da Vinci post and marvel at her debate with commenter Paulo and see how dismissive and biased she can get. Or check out how she delicately handled Cardinal Sin’s death as if the fuhrer himself died. She was so keen in showing the world that she wasn’t a hypocrite, that she totally forgot that mourning is not only for the mourned but is also for the mourners. Respect? Tolerance? You can’t find that in her book, or rather blog.

Castor Troy wrote on November 5, 2005 - 1:29 pm | Visit Link

There is a word for that. Bigot.

Toro wrote on November 6, 2005 - 7:31 am | Visit Link

[...] This post has since been revised from my previous blog. But it talks essentially about the PCIJ Blogging Summit that I attended. [...]

Jalwyn’s Journal » Blog Archive » The future looks bright… wrote on December 12, 2005 - 6:53 pm | Visit Link