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Maria Ressa

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Inkluderar namnet: Maria A. Ressa

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Ressa, Maria Angelita
Födelsedag
1963-10-02
Kön
female
Nationalitet
Philippines
Födelseort
Manila, Philippines
Yrken
journalist
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"We are laughing at memes and forgetting our history."
 
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lneukirch | 2 andra recensioner | Feb 4, 2024 |
Maria Ressa was born in the Philippines, but as a girl emigrated with her mother to the U.S. After attending Princeton, she received a Fulbright scholarship to study the effects of theater on Philippine politics.

There she discovered her passion for news and politics and worked her way up to the CNN bureau chief in Manilla.

As she says “The more I reported, the more I could see how every major al-Qaeda plot from 1993 to 2003 had some link to the Philippines, the United States’ former colony, from the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993 to the 1998 bombings of US embassies in East Africa to the JW Marriott Hotel attack in Jakarta in 2003.”p 76

She was intrigued by the emergence of social media and saw that it could be a force for good – spreading factual news information at lightning speed. Unfortunately, the converse was also true:

The two biggest stories of my career had to do with the Philippines as the testing ground of two menaces threatening the United States and the world in the Twenty first century: Islamic terrorism and information warfare on social media.” P 76

“Later I would learn how extremism and radicalization could spread through social networks like a virus. Social network theory offered the Three Degrees of Influence Rule, a theory first posited by Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler in 2007. Their work showed that everything we say or do ripples through our social network, creating an impact on our friends (one degree), our friends’ friends (two degrees) and even our friends’ friends’ friends (three degrees). If you’re feeling lonely,(which you might assume spreads the least), there’s a 25 percent chance that your friend’s friend will feel lonely and a 15 percent chance that your friend’s friend’s friend will feel lonely. Emotions such as happiness and hope, as well as smoking, sexual diseases, and even obesity, can be traced and spread through social networks.”
P77

She and three fellow women journalists started an internet news platform called Rappler in 2012. It won multiple journalism awards but soon became the target of President Rodrigo Duterte known for his extremely brutal regime. Rappler, Ressa and the journalists working there became the targets of harassment, threats, and arrest. Ressa wrote “For me, it’s about two things: abuse of power and the weaponization of the law,” I told the assembled reporters. …..”This isn’t just about me, and it’s not just about Rappler. The message that the government is sending is very clear and someone actually told our reporter this last night: ‘Be silent, or you’re next!” p201

“I guess to a lying government, a journalist is a terrorist, setting off bombs that blow up their lies.” P 206

Ressa was included in Time Magazine’s 2018 Person of the Year; she won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021.

This is an articulate and yes, scary, memoir. Tactics such as declaring journalists enemies of the people and labeling verifiable facts as ;fake news’ are prominent tactics in many countries where democracy is being undermined. Sadly, they are not uncommon tactics in the US today.
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streamsong | 2 andra recensioner | Oct 4, 2023 |
The book's title is misleading, and this is my first gripe with the book. I appreciate Maria Ressa's struggle against autocracy in the Philippines. Also, I appreciate her relentless fight against dictatorship.

The book is an autobiography and does not offer clues on how to stand up to a dictator. How can a journalist or citizen combat oppression without influential contacts?? She does not offer a clue, or any lessons, towards this end,

Once again, I respect her courage and her story. But the book does not fulfil the promise of the title. Her life story is inspiring, but her book does not inspire or educate.… (mer)
 
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RajivC | 2 andra recensioner | Jul 15, 2023 |
For anyone wishing to understand the next, post-9/11 generation of al-Qaeda planning, leadership, and tactics, there is only one place to begin: Southeast Asia. In fact, such countries as the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia have been crucial nodes in the al-Qaeda network since long before the strikes on the Pentagon and World Trade Center, but when the allies overran Afghanistan, the new camps in Southeast Asia became the key training grounds for the future. It is in the Muslim strongholds in the Philippines and Indonesia that the next generation of al-Qaeda can be found. In this powerful, eye-opening work, Maria Ressa casts the most illuminating light ever on this fascinating but little-known "terrorist HQ."
Every major al-Qaeda attack since 1993 has had a connection to the Philippines, and Maria Ressa, CNN's lead investigative reporter for Asia and a Filipino-American who has lived in the region since 1986, has broken story after story about them. From the early, failed attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II and Bill Clinton to the planning of the 9/11 strikes and the "48 Hours of Terror," in which eleven American jetliners were to be blown up over the Pacific, she has interviewed the terrorists, their neighbors and families, and the investigators from six different countries who have tracked them down. After the Bali bombing, al-Qaeda's worst strike since 9/11, which killed more than two hundred, Ressa broke major revelations about how it was planned, why it was a Plan B substitute for an even more ambitious scheme aimed at Singapore, and why the suicide bomber recruited to deliver the explosives almost caused the whole plan to fall apart when he admitted he could barely drive a car.
Above all, Ressa has seen how al-Qaeda's tactics are shifting under the pressures of the war on terror. Rather than depending upon its own core membership (estimated at three to four thousand at its peak), the network is now enmeshing itself in local conflicts, co-opting Muslim independence movements wherever they can be found, and helping local "revolutionaries" to fund, plan, and execute sinister attacks against their neighbors and the West. If history is any guide, al-Qaeda revisits its plans over and over until they can succeed -- and many of those plans have already been discovered and are here revealed, thanks to classified investigative documents uncovered by Ressa.
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Alhickey1 | 1 annan recension | Feb 15, 2020 |

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ISBN
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