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Journalist Maria Ressa has faced criminal charges and death threats because of her coverage of the populist, authoritarian Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. She s covered Duterte s bloody war on drugs, his expanding grip on all parts of the government and his crackdown on the press. In 2018, she was Time Magazine s Person of the Year. Ressa is the subject of a new PBS FRONTLINE documentary, A Thousand Cuts, directed by Ramona Diaz. Also book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Outlawed, a novel by Anna North, which she describes as Handmaid s Tale meets Butch Cassidy. ....
Courtesy of FRONTLINE (PBS) / PBS Fri. Jan. 8 at 9pm on WKAR-HD 23.1 & STREAMING | This episode features Philippine President Duterte’s crackdown on the press and his prime target, Maria Ressa. From filmmaker Ramona Diaz, this is the cautionary tale of Duterte’s escalating war on the press, his pursuit of Ressa and her colleagues and the threat to democracy. Ressa CEO and Executive Editor of the independent news site Rappler and a TIME Magazine Person of the Year is currently facing jail time under a cyber libel law. The film follows Ressa, her colleagues and key players in the government through this escalating war. ....