March 27, 2006 · Posted in: In the News, Media
Tiongco strikes again
SOUND engineer Jonathan Tiongco filed this morning five counts of libel against PCIJ executive director Sheila Coronel and counsel Sandra Olaso-Coronel, following their appearance in a Senate hearing on March 14.
Tiongco also sued nine other media executives and their reporters, for publishing and airing what he said were “libelous quotations” from the PCIJ.
Those included in the suit are: Letty Magsanoc, Isagani Yambot, Norman Bordadora, and Philip Tubeza of the Philippine Daily Inquirer; Maria Ressa, Luchie Cruz-Valdez, and Lynda Jumilla of the ABS-CBN; and Katrice Jalbuena and Ronnie Calumpita of the Manila Times.
The libel case is Tiongco’s seventh suit against the PCIJ and the fourth against ABS-CBN. Yet Tiongco, in his latest complaint, says he is the one being harassed by PCIJ. He also did not sue other networks and newspapers that ran similar reports on the Senate hearing.
During a Senate inquiry on the effects of Proclamation 1017 on the media, Coronel and Olaso-Coronel told members of the Justice and Human Rights Committee how the Quezon City police, along with Tiongco, tried but failed to secure a warrant to search the PCIJ office.
In his latest complaint-affidavit, Tiongco said he never applied for a search warrant, even if he and three policewomen were seen by journalists and the PCIJ lawyer at the office of RTC Judge Alan Balot on March 13 . He used the same arguments he previously made in separate cases of perjury and obstruction of justice he filed against Coronel last week. In those complaints, Tiongco said the PCIJ was harassing him and his family so that he “may not testify in favor of the government.”
Then Environment secretary and now Presidential Chief of staff Mike Defensor presented Tiongco before the media on August 12, 2005, at the height of the “Hello, Garci” controversy. Tiongco during the press conference said that the alleged wiretapped conversations between the president and former elections commissioner Virgilio Garcillano have been tampered with.
In addition, Tiongco said, Justice secretary Raul Gonzalez “has spoken and announced that the PCIJ is being monitored for illegal posting of wiretapped material which tend to incite the public to sedition.”
“The seditious effects of such postings are not imaginary,” Tiongco said in the complaint-affidavit.
13 Responses to Tiongco strikes again
penpenpen88
March 27th, 2006 at 6:23 pm
there he goes again.. tuta ni mike… wagging his tail again .. let loose by his master.. to bother the weary neighbors.. wala nang magawa sa buhay nya.. kaya lang nya gawin mangulo.. pathetic..
ocayvalle
March 27th, 2006 at 10:27 pm
this really is the handy work of malacanan..with the help of the group of FG Arroyo the firm of Pancho Villaraza,,the same scheme they have been doing..filling case..remember Dir Manapat of archives? he filed a case against FPJ for being american citezens and other cases that has been filed for those who are anti GMA..really this nightmare has to end..
let us all freedom loving filipinos unite and oust this evil empire!!
NOW NA!!
naykika
March 27th, 2006 at 10:31 pm
There’s a saying; what’s good for a goose , good for a gander. Why not throw back to Mr Tiongco what he’s dishing out? And throw them as hard as Roger (the Rocket) Clemens. Strike Out-Get Out of Here.
Theboss
March 27th, 2006 at 11:05 pm
huwag nyo ng patulan yang me tama sa ulo na yan.ang alam kong nag utos diyan yung amo niyang si UNGE.(mimiyak sa nguso).Yung amo ni katok taposna ang political career niyan matapos matanggal sa puwesto si gma.kahit kosehal ng barangay hindi na mananalo si unge.
ifeelakki
March 28th, 2006 at 12:56 am
Agree ako sa yo, Theboss.
Curious lang po ako..
Magkapatid ba ang magulang ni Tsongo kaya ganyan sya?
Palagay ko, hindi naman papatulan ng matinong hukom ang mga reklamo ni Tsongo laban sa legitimate at respectable media kung walang sumusulsol.
Sino ba ang makikinabang kung pinatahimik ang PCIJ, ABS-CBN at lahat ng nagsasabi ng totoo?
Sa panahong ito, traitor ka kung magsabi ka ng totoo.. Inciting to sedition ang paghahanap ng katotohanan. Loyal ka sa bansa at sa saligang batas kung magnakaw at magsinungaling ka.
Buti pa nung panahon ni Marcos, ang kaaway ng Demokrasya at Katotohanan may mukha. Ngayon, nagtatago sila sa mga tulad ni Tsongo.
Mga DUWAG!!!!
lokalokang matino
March 28th, 2006 at 1:35 am
Please lang, wag na nating pag-aksayahan ng panahon ang HHHUNNGHANG NA YAN!!!!@!#&*!!!!!
luzviminda
March 28th, 2006 at 5:44 am
Obvious naman na Malakanyang ang nasa likod ng pagsampa ng kaso ni Tiongco sa mga media. Dahil hindi na matira ng harapan ng Malakanyang ang media sa dahilang they will be guilty of intimidation. GMA wants to ‘silenced’ this courageous media people. Ang mga kinasuhan ni Tiongco ay mga ‘destabilizers’ daw according to Malakanyang dahil ito ang mga nagsasabi ng katotohanan about the EVILS OF GMA.
vonpogi
March 28th, 2006 at 8:28 am
SA BANSA NATIN NGAYON OR SA GOBYERNO NI GLU-RIA MAKAPAL ARROVO PIDAL DOROBO AY…
KUNG ISA KANG MARANGAL AT HANGAD ANG KATOTOHANAN ANG BAGSAK MO AY SA KULUNGAN…..
KUNG ISA KANG MAGNANAKAW NG BAYAN AT ALALAY NI ARROVO AY ANG BAGSAK MO AY SA MALACANANG AT TIBA TIBA KA INSTANT MILLIONERS KA NA AGAD.
ANG MAGNANAKAW AY MAPAPALAD NGAYON.
ANG MABUTING TAO AY REBELLION ANG TAWAG.
ANG MGA SINUNGALING (MIKE BADING DEFENSOR AT BUNYETA, PUNO) AY MAGAGANDA ANG PUWESTO.
ANG NAGSASABI NG KATOTOHANAN AY PINA PA ARESTO NGAYON.
MAG SUOT KA NG LAYAS NA, NOW NG T=SHIRT AY BAWAL
MAG SUOT KA NG PRO – GMA AY MAY PERA KA PA.
bayonic
March 28th, 2006 at 8:33 am
alam naman natin na masyado silang bilib sa ating justice system at rule of law …. kaya nga tuwing may paratang sa kanila ang sabi ay ” i’ll see you in court ” , ” i’ll answer those charges in the proper venue ” , ” let’s follow due process and the rule of law ” , etc etc .
ifeelakki
March 28th, 2006 at 8:49 am
DAPAT IPATAWAG AT IMBESTIGAHAN SI TSONGO NG SENADO PARA MAGKAALAMAN NA!
HINDI NAMAN SYA COVERED NG EO 464 DI BA? HE CAN’T HIDE UNDER THE SKIRT OF THE “RIGHT TO PRIVACY” EITHER CUZ HE WAS THE ONE WHO INITIATED THE WHOLE THING. BUT I TRUST HE WILL COME UP WITH AN EXCUSE NOT TO FACE THE SENATE LIKE A COWARD WOULD.
THE SENATE SHOULD FEEL INSULTED AND VIOLATED IF THE LIKES OF TSONGO CAN HARASS PEOPLE WHO APPEAR IN SENATE INQUIRIES WHO TELL THE TRUTH.
THERE’S A HAND UNDER THE ASS OF THE PUPPET. LET US UNCOVER THAT HAND. IT SEEMS THAT THE PUPPET ENJOYS GETTING IT UP HIS ASS!!!
HONORABLE SENATORS, IS IT NOT YOUR SWORN DUTY TO PROTECT OUR FRAGILE DEMOCRACY?
LET US UNCOVER THE TRUE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.
muaddib
March 28th, 2006 at 8:57 am
Alam mo bayonic, naaalala ko yung mga sinasalihan kong paliga noon ng basketball sa aming munting baryo… Yung isang player ng isang team, maliit lng na bata pero ubod ng angas at walang habas mambalya… Pag nasalya mo ng konti tatawagan ka agad ng referree ng foul. Pero pag ikaw binalya nya nde ka papansinin ng ref. Nung minsan kinompronta namin yung bata na maglaro lng ng walang sakitan ang sabi ba naman, eh sa referree kayo magreklamo…
Nantokwa, nalaman din namin eventually kaya nmn pla kampi sa kanya referree eh tiyuhin ng loko… Pick up the similarities sa situation natin ngayn and i think you’ll get the whole picture.
Para sa Kanto Mama
March 28th, 2006 at 9:24 am
As usual, mas maraming panggulung issues, at mas maraming panggulung tao, mas malayo ang atensyon ng politically immature na masa sa Panggulo ng Pilipinas. Siste nito, marami pa silang napapaniwala.
Yung mga napapirma nila sa mga Barangay conventions para sa cha-cha, karamihan sa kanila hindi nagbabayad ng taxes. Ginamit ng panggulung pamahalaan ang binayad nating taxes para ibayad sa kanilang pirma. Yang pirma naman nila ang magbabaon sa atin. The evil dictator using dictatorship of the masses to punish the taxpayers.
Marcos came 40 years ago. Nalinlang niya ang masa. Now it’s GMA. Ginagamit niya ang masa para linlangin ang masa. Masaya.
INSIDE PCIJ: Stories behind our stories » PCIJ blog turns one year old
April 4th, 2006 at 12:40 pm
[…] Indeed, a year’s existence has been historic in more ways than one. As the first institutional journalism/media blog in the country, ours also was the first to be charged with a libel case, and subsequently the first to be issued a TRO by a trial court judge in relation to a post on Jonathan Tiongco, Michael Defensor’s self-styled audio forensics expert. It would eventually become the “best dressed” blog too with Tiongco, displaying a rare gift of litigiousness, filing six more cases against us. […]