* The importance of a strong state is that there has been no developed country that didn’t have a strong state in periods of their growth.FROM the likes of Sen. Franklin Drilon to an obscure never-heard reporter of ABS-CBN network talking to BBC to the bogus organization of “journalists,” the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, we’ve been hearing this claim that the Congress’ decision not to give that oligarch-owned network the privilege to use the nation’s radio frequency spectrum would have a “chilling effect” on press freedom.That chilling effect cliché is one urban legend, actually in the same genre of an outright superstition that a black cat crossing your path means bad luck.Take it from me, as I’ve been a journalist since my teens, even during martial law. The Manila Times is one of the leading national broadsheets in the Philippines. But that goes along the same line of thinking as that which claims Santa Claus does exist as he appears every December without fail.Three major reasons for such belief have been advanced:In just six years of the Yellow regime, undertaken were the worst and most despicable cases of corruption in Philippine history.
First was the 31-year regime of Indonesia’s Suharto. Its embassy indeed issued a statement right after her arrest that said that it hopes “her case will be resolved quickly in accordance with relevant Philippine law and international standards of due process.”But Ressa is being protected not just by her government. This was despite the fact that the World Health Organization (WHO) had categorically declared that since its group of experts was still evaluating the new vaccine, it should be used with caution and under tight supervision of a doctor who would have to determine that the subject had not contacted dengue before, or had been exposed to the virus that causes it.This information was crucial as many doctors suspected—which the WHO later determined—that if a recipient of the Dengvaxia vaccine had not been previously exposed to the dengue virus, were to later contract the disease, the result could be more severe symptoms, resulting even in death.In this era of rationality and scientific thinking, which emerged only in the last 300 years of man’s 200,000-year history, it is, if you think about it, astonishing that most of humanity still believe in an invisible God, or gods.
Pierre Omidyar, one of the US’ richest men, and founder of eBay (with its subsidiary Paypal) and now also a Hawaii and California property tycoon, will be paying for Ressa’s lawyers.The shadowy tycoon’s Omidyar Network and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) which he funds “have set up a $500,000 legal defense fund for Ressa,” according to a two-part investigative article in mintpressnews.com, a website that has gained a reputation as an independent news outfit with formidable research skills (Read the article here: https://www.mintpressnews.com/ebay-founder-pierre-omidyar-is-funding-a-global-media-information-war/255199/).It was also Omidyar Network which, together with North Base Media, that saved Rappler from going under in 2015 when the two entities invested P100 million into the firm, which had been nearly abandoned by its initial funders.IF not for Maria Ressa and Rappler’s vilification campaign against President Duterte and the Philippines, and her success in getting foreign media entities to portray her as a heroine of press freedom, her journalism career would have crashed years ago.Ressa is therefore unlikely to give up her portrayal of herself as a victim of the suppression of the press in a country which she says has a media that have been cowed.In the description of her in Rappler and in other foreign award-giving sites, she is portrayed as a distinguished journalist who was given more than seven awards by international media outfits, including one as Time magazine’s “Person of the Year.”This were all given only in 2018 after Ressa, with the help of Yellow forces, managed to portray internationally as instances of Duterte’s alleged authoritarianism the actions of two state agencies in upholding our rule of law.First, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s ruled that it had violated the constitutional ban on foreign money in media.
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