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Tag-teaming against the President:

Tag-teaming against the President:. Philippine case-study on how bloggers and mainstream media kept a “banned” conversation going and online. Manuel L. Quezon III www.quezon.ph/blog. Conversation makes news. The news: crisis mode.

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Tag-teaming against the President:

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  1. Tag-teaming against the President: • Philippine case-study on how bloggers and mainstream media kept a “banned” conversation going and online

  2. Manuel L. Quezon IIIwww.quezon.ph/blog

  3. Conversation makes news

  4. 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

  5. The media reaction

  6. The Media reaction • June 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

  7. Counter-reaction

  8. Counter-Reaction • June 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

  9. Immediate questions

  10. Immediate questions • Which 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?

  11. Public information question

  12. Public Information Question • Nixon 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)

  13. Tag-teaming

  14. The appeal

  15. 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

  16. Mirror & spread the data

  17. Take a stand

  18. Blogs come of age

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