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Second most deadly

Posted by: Sheila Coronel | January 4, 2006 at 4:54 pm
Filed under: In the News, Media

THE Philippines was second only to Iraq as the most dangerous place for journalists in 2005, two international media watchdogs, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), said today.

Worldwide, last year was a deadly one for journalists with 47 killed, most of them deliberately targeted because of their work, according to CPJ. “Kidnappers in Iraq, political assassins in Beirut and hit men in the Philippines made murder the leading cause of work-related deaths among journalists worldwide in 2005,” the US-based watchdog said. (Read the CPJ report here.) The killers, CPJ added, targeted journalists "to silence them for their criticism or to punish them for their work."

RSF, however, had a higher casualty count, with 63 journalists killed and 1,300 others physically attacked or receiving threats. It said last year’s total was the highest since 1995. It reported six journalists killed in the Philippines last year because of their work, while several others were murdered for unknown reasons. “Their enemies were no longer armed groups but politicians, businessmen and drug-traffickers ready to silence journalists who exposed their crimes,” said the RSF report.

The reasons for the different figures have to do with how different groups determine who they count and how updated they are with their reporting. CPJ has apparently not included the killings in November and December, and includes in its list only the following (click on the links for details of individual cases):

Marlene Garcia-Esperat, Midland News and DXKR, killed March 24, Tacurong, Sultan Kudarat
Klein Cantoneros, DXAA-FM, killed May 4, Dipolog City
Philip Agustin, Starline Times Recorder, killed May 10, Dingalan, Aurora
Rolando "Dodong" Morales, DXMD, killed July 3, Polomolok, South Cotabato

RSF, however, also includes the following more recent killings:

George Benaojan, DYDD Bantay Radio, killed December 1, Talisay City, Cebu
Roberto Ramos, Katapat, killed November 20, Cabuyao Laguna

More controversially, the RSF list also included school teacher Edgar Amoro, a part-time commentator/reporter for Radio DXKP in Pagadian City. Amoro was killed because he was a key witness to the 2002 murder of journalist Edgar Damalerio. (He does not make it to the list of the CPJ or the local media watchdog, the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility or CMFR, because he wasn’t killed because of his journalistic work.)

In December, Damalerio’s killer, policeman Guillermo Wapille, was sentenced to life imprisonment, marking the first time in many years since a journalist’s killer was sentenced and jailed. Media groups welcomed the sentencing, saying that it was victory for press freedom in the Philippines, where the impunity with which journalists’ killers are able to get away with their crime has been cited as a major reason for the high casualty count.

The CMFR and the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists have done an extensive research on the murders and found that most of those killed were radio broadcasters, many of them block timers who buy air time so they can express their views. The study also found that only about a third of all those killed were regularly employed by their newspapers or broadcast stations. Most of the journalists were killed either in their offices or their homes or on their way from one to the other. The vast majority of the victims were writing or broadcasting for small news organizations outside Manila. Few of the slain broadcasters were working for the major radio networks or their affiliates. Many were not even accredited by the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas, the national broadcasters’ association. They were the least protected and least influential, therefore most vulnerable, targets.

The CMFR has totaled 60 killings since 1986, a lower figure than that used by another media watchdog, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), which listed 73 journalists killed in the last 20 years and 10 just in 2005. The NUJP and its international affiliate, the International Federation of Journalists, count all journalists who were killed violently, regardless of the circumstances of, and the motives for, their slaying. Even victims of ordinary crime are recorded. The CMFR, RSF and CPJ have more rigorous criteria: the victim has to be a working journalist at the time of death and the killing must be directly related to his or her work. The CMFR counts seven murders this year, excluding Amorro who is on the RSF list, but including Arnulfo Villanueva, a columnist of the Asian Star Balita who was gunned down in Naic, Cavite on February 28. Villanueva, however, was no longer a columnist at the time of his death.

Regardless of who is doing the counting, however, the casualty count in the Philippines is scandalously high, considering the country is not at war. Media groups attribute this to weak law enforcement as well as a culture of violence and impunity.

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Jeez. New Year na and we’re still dwelling on how pathetically retarded and criminally insane our society is. Well, to be fair, that is in fact what our society is.

Maybe it is best to focus on what ordinary folk can do which is raise their kids well so that they do not grow up to be sociopath politicians and journalist murderers.

Check out this very beautifully written article emailed in by a simple man (who happens to have a very broad mind). He captured in very simple words the very issue about how Pinoys raise their children and how our society regards (or rather RETATRDS) our youth:

http://www.getrealphilippines.com/rant/rant00020.html

Excerpt:
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when I ask my aunt again how did I come out in this world. and without hesitation she said “galing ka sa puwet”.
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If we think politicians are constantly bullshitting us. Think back a bit, maybe we’ve been so ingrained with bullshit (since childhood) that we actually EXPECT to be bullshitted.

Food for thought.

For more thought-provoking stuff, check out the 2006 Edition of Get Real. All new and updated for the Happy New Year! All summarised in our What’s New section here:

http://www.getrealphilippines.com/admin/whatsnew.html

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!!

benign0 wrote on January 5, 2006 - 6:47 am | Visit Link

It confirms the fears of OFWs and balikbayans that it’s not safe to go back home. It too encourages more professionals to go abroad and find a better place to raise their families.

You can check this OFW opinion out.

Jon Mariano wrote on January 7, 2006 - 11:21 pm | Visit Link

The Philippines is rated as second only to Iraq, but considering Iraq is in the state of war, would it not make the Philippines the most dangerous place for a working journalist? (all things even). Some of the reasons these events happened (asides from exposing wrongdoings) is the cultures of so- called Pride and Honor. We have that sensitivity that once our personal honor and the so- called family name are tainted, some lost that rational thinking and will go the extent of exacting revenge, even to the point of committing the capital crime. And some in the Media may not like this one, but there are times that some commentators, especially in the talk show business, go overboard and elevate their commentary to personal level. Like they say, it takes two to tango. But no matter what, feuds should be settled in courts and if you believe you have been libeled or slandered sue or better still conduct yourself as good citizen and nobody will have an issue with you.

naykika wrote on January 8, 2006 - 5:50 pm | Visit Link

Maraming dahilan kung bakit nangyayari ang patayan lalo na ng mga taga-media, at mas lalo na ng mga walang kayang ipaglaban ang kanilang karapatan (mga mahihirap).

Ang isa na binanggit ay ang environment of impunity kung saan ang mga nagkakasala (yaong mga pumapatay) ay hindi naparurusahan. Kaya nagkakalakas-loob ang mga kriminal at ang kanilang mga “boss”. Kaya nga di ba sa isang SWS survey, napakarami ng mga Pinoy na hindi na inirereport ang mga krimen? Dahil nga sa tingin ng mga mamamayan wala rin lang magawa ang pulis. Kung ganon ang pag-iisip ng mga tao, ano ang iisipin ng mga kriminal? Na di sila magbabayad sa kanilang ginawa.

Jon Mariano wrote on January 8, 2006 - 10:38 pm | Visit Link

[...] Vinia Datinguinoo sought Magsino-Lubis to get her story. In i Report’s "Reporting under the Gun," Datinguinoo tells her tale as a journalist at risk. By making people aware of the threats against her, we hope, as Magsino does, to lessen the chances of her getting hurt, especially since the year just passed — and the year before it — was a deadly one for Filipino journalists. [...]

INSIDE PCIJ: Stories behind our stories » Reporting under the gun wrote on January 9, 2006 - 1:04 pm | Visit Link

[...] MORE than two weeks after being declared as the second most dangerous place for journalists in 2005 by two international media watchdogs, the Philippines has again earned the same dubious distinction, this time from the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). [...]

INSIDE PCIJ: Stories behind our stories » Again, second most dangerous country for journalists wrote on January 23, 2006 - 7:40 pm | Visit Link

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Iraq Information Blog » Blog Archive » Article from INSIDE PCIJ: Stories behind our stories - Second most deadly wrote on February 24, 2006 - 5:26 am | Visit Link

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