tag-teaming against the president: philippine case-study on how bloggers and mainstream media kept a...
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Tag-teaming against
the President: Philippine case-study on how bloggers
and mainstream media kept a “banned” conversation going and online
Conversation makes news
The news: crisis mode
June 6: Press Secretary presents “fake” and “authentic” recordings of conversations (A & B)
June 8: Opposition lawyer says he has recordings (Their A is his C)
June 10: Former NBI official says he has original A (his D), from which B & C were culled.
June 11: Government denies tapes prove vote manipulation
The media reaction
The Media reactionJune 6: asked to help copy and disseminate “genuine” and “fake” recordings by Press Secretary
June 7: Major networks broadcast portions of the tapes
June 11: Transcripts of some versions begin to be published
June 12: Mass Media loses nerve as public takes up the slack
June 14: Dissemination shifts on line
Counter-reaction
Counter-ReactionJune 12: National Telecommunications Commission issues warning: playing D tapes might result in closure of stations (citing Anti-Wiretapping law)
June 13: KBP challenges warning; issues denunciation next day
Networks and online news outfits cease playing tapes, remove transcripts, de-link files, upon legal advice (or political pressure); KBP says coast is clear on June 18
Immediate questions
Immediate questionsWhich version? All or nothing?
Culpability under the law: Media, Public, Officials
Repercussions of defiance: Editorial versus Business; personal vs. institutional; old media vs. new media
Frustration: rebellion? subversion? surrender?
Public information
question
Public Information QuestionNixon claim of Executive Privilege
May 21, 2001 Supreme Court Bartnicki decision, USA
Indian cricket scandal: Tehelka sent Manoj Prabhakar to meet players and officials with a hidden camera (and similar cases)
Tag-teaming
The appeal
Tag-teaming: the response
Mirror the data (individual bloggers)
Spread the data (bloggers and media through BitTorrent)
Take a stand: Defy the lawyers, publishers, and the authorities
Provide information: Allow the public to judge for itself
Mirror & spread the data
Take a stand
Blogs come of age