By Mortz C. Ortigoza
Radio announcers
should not emulate this mediocre female radio announcer who was convicted with
libel by the Regional Trial Court.
Because of
imprudence that borders to stupidity, she maliciously attacked on her program a
person to commit a higher crime despite knowing that her ire committed a less
serious offense.
Libel, according
to Article 353 of the Revised Penal Code has the following elements: 1. The
allegation of a discreditable act or condition concerning another; 2.
Publication (jurisprudence called it too as “broadcasting”) of the charge; 3.
Identity of the person defamed; 4. Existence of Malice.
The judge of the
Regional Trial Court, who handled the case for several years, saw all the four
elements consummated by the wannabe radio woman.
With that
conviction where she is sentenced to serve several years in the slammer, she
got the following options.
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| A female radio announcer opines inside the station's booth. |
She pays tens of
thousands of pesos for her lawyer for her Petition to Appeal at the Court of
Appeals (C.A).
If the C.A will
affirm the decision of the RTC, she shells out again tens of thousands of pesos
for a lawyer who will write an appeal to the Supreme Court.
If the highest
tribunal agreed with the RTC’s decision she goes to jail and serve the several years’
sentence given to her by the Regional Trial Court.
If she applies
for probation, within 15 days upon receipt of the decision of the RTC, to avoid the adverse decision of the S.C, she opens herself with civil indemnity the complainant will file against her with hundreds of
thousands of pesos’ damages. Thanks to mediocrity and stupidity, she reaps now
the consequences of her bravado thinking she got the microphone in the booth
and a license to maliciously and orally slander another person.
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I remember a
radio announcer in my province who zealously lambasting on air the incompetence
of the district engineer of the Department of Public Works & Highway.
He singled out
the rough and tumble road abandoned with neglect by the government.
Unfortunately,
the district engineer, the top man of the DPWH that covers two congressional
districts, was driving his car and was tuned to the frequency of the radio
station.
When the D.E
stormed into the booth of the station where the broadcaster was unleashing his
vitriol against the former, the latter was startled as if he saw a ghost.
“You do your
homework first before you attack me. The road you are assailing is provincial road and not a national highway that is under my watch!” the
district engineer screamed at him.
I could cite
other irresponsible radio announcers because of mediocrity and stupidity where they
dragged themselves to an awkward position like financial expenses because they were sued with libel by
those they orally slandered.
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The difference between the administrations of former Dagupan City’s mayor Belen T. Fernandez and incumbent mayor Brian Lim, during the stints of the former public toilets at the back of the office of the park administrator and near the mayor shed in Barangay Bonuan Gueset was free of charge to the public who relieved themselves there.
Last Wednesday when I went there to pee, a woman holding a mop, billed me five pesos for the use of the john there.
Other guys and gals I saw there shelling out too five pesos for the use of the two toilets without even given a receipt by the woman to account that those monies were going to the public coffer.
I don’t know if Mayor Lim knows this but it if this “misconduct” or shenanigan or mulcting or whatever was done by his employees there, he will look bad before the eyes of his constituents up to the May 2022 election when ex-mayor Fernandez will make a comeback.
The young Lim, a former vice mayor, vanquished six years’ mayor Fernandez, an ally of the de Venecias, in a close- shave contest with a 1,239 (1.4%) lead votes among the 97,073 voters in the massive vote buying marred May 13, 2019 poll.
(You can read my selected columns at http://mortzortigoza.blogspot.com and
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