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Ayon sa Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF), ang Pilipinas ay isa sa mga pinaka
delikadong bansa para sa mga mamamahayag. Binigyang halimbawa nito ang nangyari noong
taong 2009 kung saan tatlumpu’t dalawang (32) mamamahayag ang pinatay na mas kilala bilang
Maguindanao Massacre. Mula din sa kanilang press freedom index na nagraranggo ng kalagayan
ng press freedom sa bawat bansa, ngayong taong 2022, sa 180 na bansa ang Pilipinas ay nasa
ika-147 na ranggo. Nagpapatunay na malubha ang kalagayan ng ating bansa sa usapin sa
kalayaan sa pagpapahayag at kaligtasan ng mga mamamahayag. Base sa datos na ibinigay ng
National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, simula 1986 ay isang daan at siyam na pu’t pito
(197) na ang mga Pilipinong mamamahayag ang pinatay sa Pilipinas. Ang isang daan at tatlo
(103) sa bilang na ito ay namatay sa ilalim ng administrasyong Arroyo kabilang dito ang
Maguindanao Massacre na may pinakamataas na bilang ng pagpatay sa taong 2009. Nakakalula
ang bilang ng mga taong namatay dahil lamang sa kanilang propesyon na maglingkod para sa
bayan at isa ito sa dahilan kung bakit nararapat nating pag-usapan pa ang isyung panlipunang ito
at bigyang solusyon. Dahil sa pagpapatahimik sa mga mamamahayag nagsisimula ang
pagpapatahimik sa tinig ng bawat mamamayan.
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