TV anchor appeals dismissal of libel suit vs colleagues

ABS-CBN anchor Gretchen Fullido on Thursday filed motions for reconsideration before the Quezon City Prosecutor’s Office (QCPO), 10 days after the court dismissed the libel charges she filed against her colleagues. Fullido’s legal counsel, Eldrige Marvin Aceron, said the filing of the motions seeks to revive his client’s cases against ABS-CBN journalist Ces Drilon, news reporter Marie Lozano, and news executive Venancio Borromeo, whomFullido accused in October of damaging her reputation for commenting that she’s just using her sexual harassment complaints against an ABS-CBN executive to leverage her job status. On March 22, QCPO dismissed the libel charges against Drilon, Lozano and Borromeo, saying their statements were “not defamatory and malicious.” But Fullido’s campmaintained that the statements made by the accused were not made in the spirit of “moral and social duty.”