KBP sanction vs. 5 broadcasters sought
SOME 300 deans, alumni and students of Lyceum Northwestern University (LNU) signed a petition en masse asking the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkasters sa Pilipinas (KBP) to sanction five Dagupan-based broadcasters for “maliciously reading and commenting” in their respective programs an unverified and unsigned letter alleging irregularities in the school.
The group asked the KBP, through Executive Director Rey Hulong, to sanction Leu Paragas and Orly Navarro, blocktime broadcasters on station DZRD Sonshine Radio; Jay Mendoza of DZRD, Bogs Toribio of DZWN Bombo Radio; and Lina Manaois of DWPR.
“We respectfully bring to your attention Dagupan City-based radio stations and their personnel, whose names are contained in attached complaint, for unduly destroying the name not only of our respected and prestigious educational institution, the Lyceum Northwestern University (LNU), but also put to doubt the quality and validity of learning we have acquired through years of diligence, hard work and the sacrifices of our parents and families,” the petition reads.
This petition is separate from the criminal complaint for libel filed by LNU and its president Gonzalo Duque two weeks ago against Paragas, Navarro, Jay Mendoza, station manager of DZRD Sonshine Radio, and Edmund Salacup, also known as “Bombo Bogs Toribio”; their respective mother stations, Sonshine Radio Philippines and Bombo Radio Philippines.
Duque said Manaois will also be included in his and LNU’s complaint for libel because based on the report of some of their students, she also read the same unverified and unsigned letter in her radio program at DWPR.
The letter that was aired alleged that “without any basis, no authentic identity of its source, and minus the benefit of scrutiny and verification that diplomas in Masters and Doctorate degrees are for sale for P100,000 and P150,000 at LNU.”
“We want to prove to these broadcasters that broadcasting carries with it some responsibility which the respondents obviously did not exercise when they aired the malicious poisoned letter,” said Duque, president of the Pangasinan Press Club and also The PUNCH columnist.
Duque said his lawyers are also preparing a case against Magic Corporation and Mayor Benjamin Lim, as the “blocktimers” of the radio program where the letter was read.
He said the vilification campaign against him started when he threw his support behind Liberal Party candidate Belen Fernandez, Lim’s lone opponent in his re-election bid.
The petition sent to KBP is in addition to the resolution of the Association of Private Schools and Universities (APSCU) in Region 1, which also asked the KBP to sanction the erring broadcasters.
APSCU Region 1 headed by Dr. Mac Arthur Samson, president of University of Luzon, sought the action, noting that LNU, an active institutional member, was a victim of undue negative publicity from the radio broadcasts in Dagupan City.
Samson said APSCU Region 1 filed the petition “because unless these broadcasters are sanctioned, any private educational institution in Region 1 may also find itself at the receiving end of malicious attacks that could severely affect the integrity of the institution.
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