{"id":999,"date":"2022-04-19T02:13:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T02:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/?p=999"},"modified":"2022-04-19T02:16:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T02:16:55","slug":"maria-ressa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/maria-ressa\/","title":{"rendered":"MARIA RESSA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By\u00a0Madeleine Albright<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soon after learning that she was one of a group of journalists being honored by TIME as Person of the Year in 2018, Filipino reporter Maria Ressa had a startling realization\u2014she was the only one of the honorees who was not either dead, a recent survivor of a deadly attack or imprisoned. She has since been arrested and released on bail multiple times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around the world, a new generation of authoritarian leaders is leading a concerted and intentional assault on truth, with serious consequences for journalists such as Maria who are committed to exposing corruption, documenting abuse and combatting misinformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maria\u2019s Manila-based news site, Rappler, has already been indicted by President Duterte\u2019s government on questionable tax-evasion charges, and Maria was arrested and briefly imprisoned earlier this year for allegedly violating a dubious \u201ccyber-libel\u201d law. But Maria remains undaunted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I presented her with the National Democratic Institute\u2019s highest honor in 2017, she spoke of the hard work and courage of her colleagues at Rappler: \u201cWe are journalists, and we will not be intimidated. We will shine the light. We will hold the line.\u201d That is precisely what she has done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Albright is a former U.S. Secretary of State<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The time Magazine <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By&nbsp;Madeleine Albright Soon after learning that she was one of a group of journalists being<span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/maria-ressa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MARIA RESSA<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1000,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions\/1000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}