Maria Ressa is a bad joke and so is the Nobel Foundation in its current state. I really feel like people should petition that Ressa herself should get a Nobel Prize in Physics next. Maybe, have Jover Laurio, Antonio Trillanes IV, or any of Ressa's closest friends win the Nobel Fish Fries. A report from the Philippine Star (above) shows that journalists' rights in Gaza are dangerous. This makes me think that Ressa herself might be more than ready for a REAL WARZONE ASSIGNMENT. Why not send her over to Gaza to fight for the rights of journalists over there?
Taking a look back at Ressa's incredibly massive failure of the mind
This reminds me of the time when Ressa actually said in 60 minutes. She claimed that the Philippines was worse than any war zone. However, Rappler still continues to enjoy press freedom until today. The website hasn't been shut down. The real issue is Rappler violating a law that shouldn't even exist. That's why I call it a failure of the mind. Ressa acquired American citizenship the moment her mother married, the moment her stepfather adopted her, and she's grown up there evidenced by her accent. Unfortunately, Rappler became a tool of anti-reform idiots like Toady Casino. Did they even realize that constitutional reform could allow Rappler to enjoy foreign funding and better Internet means Rappler can get better coverage? How can far-flung areas get to enjoy Rappler if the Internet speed is SO D*MN SLOW?
I looked at one of Rigoberto Tiglao's articles and it reveals that Ressa was NEVER a war correspondent. Just reading this makes me laugh:
Al Luzonee
Or maybe Ressa told him she covered an Islamic State attack in the war zone that was the Resorts World casino in June 2017, which she claimed was by a terrorist named Abu Khair al Luzonee?
That makes up Ressa’s journalistic career for 29 years, to be precise. What war zone did Ressa cover?
There is, however, a reason explain why the “60 Minutes” interviewer thought Ressa was a veteran covering war zones correspondent, and why she herself may have been deluded she was an outstanding war correspondent.
To get some background on Ressa, Whitaker probably came across and quickly browsed throgh her largely ignored 2003 book Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of Al-Qaeda’s Newest Center. The book’s preface had an eye-popping title that is the equivalent of a click-bait in books: “Face to face with Osama bin Laden.” Obviously a lazy reporter, Whitaker didn’t bother to read the preface.
Ressa was among the seven journalists who interviewed bin-Laden from 1993 to 2001?
No she wasn’t, that title was just to get a browser in a bookstore to buy it.
Bin Laden
The closest Ressa had in meeting bin Laden and being in a war zone was in 2002 in a cubicle in CNN’s office in Atlanta. There, she watched for days — till the wee hours of the morning, she says — CNN’s news tapes on terrorism in the Middle East, including 251 tapes that the al-Qaeda leader had collected. The tapes got into the CNN’s possession of the network’s senior international correspondent Nic Robinson, who produced a much-awarded series titled “Terror on Tape: The Roots of Evil.”
That Ressa got so absorbed in the tapes is obvious in her account of it in her book, for example: “By now, in the middle of the night, I am the only person on the entire floor. I am working through some of the other subjects in bin Laden’s video library — tapes of news broadcasts that showed al-Qaeda’s focus, including reports of Muslim conflicts in the Middle East, Chechnya, Kashmir, Bosnia, Indonesia and the Philippines.”
She finds a tape in which she was reporting on the plot to kill John Paul 2nd in his visit to Manila in 1995, and she reports her thoughts: “I try to picture bin Laden watching me. It is chilling. Did he laugh at my naiveté? Was he relieved at the simplistic picture my reports created?”
Ressa never covered a war zone for the CNN, ABS-CBN and Rappler — unless she insists being in the fiscal’s office to pay the bond for her release after being charged with tax evasion and libel was being in a war zone.
Ressa merely watched the bin Laden’s tapes and other CNN videotapes of its war correspondents doing their jobs. Did she imagine she was CNN’s Nic Robertson, the most famous war correspondent in recent years?
No wonder, it is the same kind of mind that imagines that this country’s streets are littered with corpses because of the government’s war against illegal drugs, its media, as well as opposition persecuted, and that it is worse than a war zone.
Even funnier was the real death by a MILLION cuts interview. Ressa finally got FACE TO FACE with Sackur. It's very easy to accuse people of taking things out of context. I watched the whole interview and laughed at how Ressa replied. Sure, she was very calm in replying. It didn't change the fact she made a fool out of herself. Did she believe that Sackur would buy her half-truths? A fake news outlet is known for half-truths - not blatant lies.
Can Ressa truly do a newer, more noble mission than just her imagined conflict with former president Rodrigo R. Duterte? It would be funny if she finally decided to go to Gaza and fight for the rights of their journalists. If she does then maybe the Nobel Foundation should award her with more awards. All the liberal award-winning bodies should award her some more. The question is if she's really willing to risk her neck for the journalists in Gaza.
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