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    Maria Ressa was interviewed on BBC HARDtalk about her imprisonment for reporting on issues in the Philippines as a journalist. The document argues that suppressing journalists for doing their jobs is undemocratic. While journalists have a duty to educate the public and back up their reports with evidence, Ressa is battling for the truth in a difficult environment where facts are contested and falsehoods spread widely. Her news organization Rappler has had to transition to a more active role in standing up for truth and facts.

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    Maria Ressa was interviewed on BBC HARDtalk about her imprisonment for reporting on issues in the Philippines as a journalist. The document argues that suppressing journalists for doing their jobs is undemocratic. While journalists have a duty to educate the public and back up their reports with evidence, Ressa is battling for the truth in a difficult environment where facts are contested and falsehoods spread widely. Her news organization Rappler has had to transition to a more active role in standing up for truth and facts.

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    Reaction Paper (Maria Ressa, Journalist and Ceo of Rappler - BBC Hardtalk)

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    Maria Ressa was interviewed on BBC HARDtalk about her imprisonment for reporting on issues in the Philippines as a journalist. The document argues that suppressing journalists for doing their jobs is undemocratic. While journalists have a duty to educate the public and back up their reports with evidence, Ressa is battling for the truth in a difficult environment where facts are contested and falsehoods spread widely. Her news organization Rappler has had to transition to a more active role in standing up for truth and facts.

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    (Maria Ressa, Journalist and CEO of Rappler - BBC HARDtalk)

    Watching Maria Ressa’s interview, it’s funny how people get angry at Maria Ressa. The
    treatment of journalists and activists in the Philippines is completely absurd. According to what I
    understand, Maria Ressa was imprisoned for doing what any other journalist would do: speaking
    out against an issue. In my opinion, the president's attempt to suppress journalists for performing
    their jobs is far from democratic. As a journalist, you must help educate people about what is
    going on in our nation. But when you are a journalist you have to back up your report, you
    should have evidence in any necessary facts. Maria Ressa is battling for the truth. And she lives
    in a world where facts are contested; when the world's greatest news distributor prioritizes the
    transmission of falsehoods, laced with fury and hatred, and distributes it quicker and wider than
    facts, journalism becomes activism. And that is the transition she has gone through in Rappler,
    which she is attempting to figure out while standing on sand.

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