Comments on: Are bloggers also journalists?

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:56:20 +0000

Lance Dutson is not only NOT a journalist, he’s actually only barely human.

http://bangorreports.blogspot.com/

By: JC John SESE Cuneta

JC John SESE Cuneta — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 06:51:53 +0000

Quoting:
“Rachel Khan, chairperson of the Department of Journalism in UP Diliman College of Mass Communications, said bloggers are considered “journalists” if their blogs provide information.
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Nonetheless, bloggers can be sued for libel if they defame people. Bloggers who maliciously defame a person can be found liable under existing Philippine laws, she added.

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Locally, entities and rich people will sue bloggers for libel, and oh, the government as well. But internationally, have we heard IBM sueing bloggers for the very negative remarks about their people, products and company? How about Microsoft? Apple? Intel? AMD? Oracle?

In fact, they recognize blogging and respect bloggers. They ‘retaliate’ by blogging themselves, posting official replies, and letting their “supporters” blog about it as well.

Simple. What libel? They just have to accept that people have rights to say what they want. There are 6.65 billion people in the world, is one person’s or one blogger’s defamatory blog-post be believed and accepted by even 1% of the world’s population?

Some people and entities are sueing bloggers because these bloggers are telling the truth. We live in a democratic country after all. If they want to sue bloggers, then they should sue everyone in the world!!

By: JC John SESE Cuneta

JC John SESE Cuneta — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 06:44:30 +0000

quoting:
but then again, journalists are paid to tell the truth by a higher body. it’s their job to investigate the actual facts of a story and then print it.

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Eh? You’re kidding right? Coz if you’re not, I don’t know where you got that impression of these so-called ‘journalists’.

Locally or internationally, journalists are paid to tell ‘a story’, truth or not, Factual or not, complete research or not.

They will just write, write, write… interview left and right, and once you read their article, you can spot wrong stuff here and there.

There are very few journalists that deserve real respect and following. Very few, especially here in the Philippines. That’s why I read blogs instead, through blogs, I can read the REAL PoV of all parties and all types of people in all walks of life. Not some “regulated”, “paid”, “bias”, “light research”, “self-interpreted” journalists’ articles.

Sorry, no offense, but… never mind, I don’t want to mention names or give hints to the… ehemmcorruptehemmbadresearchingehemm journalists.

By: Reb

Reb — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 01:38:57 +0000

Of all people who should talk about ethical journalism si Erwin pa ang nagsulat. How many times has he misquoted hackers? How many times has he published stories with wrong quotes? My my….

By: yuga

yuga — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:06:24 +0000

@ Migs

I got about 4 people searching for my name in Google since yesterday. hehe

By: Cheap Web Hosting

Cheap Web Hosting — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 03:58:54 +0000

Surely, a kind of. But the most popular bloggers definitely have some code of ethics and standards.

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By: The Ca t

The Ca t — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:38:50 +0000

if bloggers are journalists, are they protected by the law accorded to the media people?

There’s no law that will prevent anybody from suing a person who she thinks has ruined his reputation.

The problem is to prove if it is defamatory in nature or the blogger is just stating facts.

By: ralphot

ralphot — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:32:42 +0000

but then again, journalists are paid to tell the truth by a higher body. it’s their job to investigate the actual facts of a story and then print it. bloggers, at least at this point in time, can write about anything they like - whether it has been confirmed or not. if said blogger’s readers catch on to what they wrote, then it’s gravy (in the ad sense… pun intended).

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:30:27 +0000

It’s different strokes for different folks. The blogosphere covers a very wide spectrum of ideas and opinions. To say that it self-regulates is not entirely true. A lot of the most respected and well-researched political blogs are the most hard-hitting and demonstrate a clear albeit libelous stance on issues. At the other end of the spectrum are the popular celebrity blogs who have no regard for personal privacy and fact. To have bloggers follow a “standard” or “ethics” is like sprinkling holy water on a poltergeist. It’s useless.

By: The Ca t

The Ca t — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:29:24 +0000

The case of libel filed by an ad agency against Lance Dutson was dropped. The Media Bloggers Association made a blast about the case to support the beleaguered blogger. A blog was put up to update other bloggers about the case.

The victory of Lance is a victory of all bloggers, the media bloggers claimed. The case was resolved in May 2006.

http://www.twistimage.com/blog/archives/000561.html

By: ruth

ruth — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:00:11 +0000

while i agree that bloggers may be legally liable for what appears in their blogs (including the comments area), i wonder how legal actions can be made, when a good number of bloggers even write under an alias.

i think it’s a long way to go before concrete guidelines in blogging can be made.

By: Migs

Migs — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:31:02 +0000

Nice mention!

But, Erwin forgot to put a link. (Or is it, “come one everyone, just google his name if you want to learn more about Mr. Olandres…)