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Kaakbay nominee cries foul over fictitious story

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Prof. Leonor Magtolis-Briones, the No. 1 nominee of the Kaakbay Party List, has called on media to refrain from writing stories that only serve to sow confusion in the minds of the public.

Briones made the appeal after a news story about her, showing even her photograph, appeared in a Dumaguete newspaper (not the MetroPost) on March 3 but listed her under another partylist. The story, it turns out, was based on a purported interview which, Briones said, never took place.

“The news item caused confusion especially since my photo was used…people might just vote for this other partylist on the mistaken notion that it is my party,” Briones, a native of Negros Oriental, said.

“The issue is one of basic issues in journalism–integrity and accuracy,” Briones said.

The article in question quoted her as expressing her “anxiety over the alleged highly-questionable counting and results of the first automated elections using the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines in the 2010 presidential elections.”

It further quoted Briones about her personal experience in Tacloban City, “still referring to Kasangga as my party-list” that got zero votes in Tacloban City. “The [article] quoted me as saying that Kasangga has a significant number of members particularly in the University of the Philippines-Tacloban.”

Briones said she was surprised how the writer could not even get the basic facts straight, while the editor of the paper did not even manage to correct the information.

“Worse, this is the second time that that paper wrongly quoted me in an article. The first one came out sometime in December 2012 when a writer interviewed me about my position on the ongoing debate, at that time, in Congress on the Reproductive Health bill. I stated my support to the passage of this law but I was shocked to read the article later, quoting me as opposing the RH law,” Briones said.

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