Do we really want to take advice about standing up to dictators from someone who is likely to be jailed in the Philippines for just that?
In the case of Maria Ressa, the answer is yes. She’s a scholar with a touch of brass. You can buy her book or just read this article by Zoe Williams.
When Ressa jointly won the Nobel peace prize in 2021 with Russian editor Dmitry Muratov, they were the first journalists to be recognized in this way since 1936.
Ironically, the German reporter who won that year, Carl von Ossietzky, couldn’t accept because he was in a Nazi concentration camp.
Ressa says: “It’s like that Martin Niemöller quote. In the Philippines, as a joke, we’ve been saying since 2017: ‘First, they came for the journalists. We don’t know what happened next.’”
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“Here they go again:” Dan Kennedy keeps pursuing his great white whale, Gannett. Dan announced on Nov. 17, 2022, that he’s got a memo from someone named “Henry” who doesn’t even show up as working for Gannett, telling newsroom staff that still more layoffs will be announced Dec. 1-2. Or, as Dan writes, “Just in time for the holidays.” Here’s the link.
Quotables
Elizabeth Cady Stanton died in 1902, 18 years before women could legally vote in this country. She could not attend college or vote, but her daughters did. In her autobiography, Eighty Years & More: Reminiscences, 1815–1897, she wrote: “I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives, but as nouns.”
Sandra Clark (in a video interview Nov. 17 with members of the Halls Crossroads Women’s League): “When I arrived in Nashville as a state representative in 1972, I was one of five women among 132 legislators, and the only Republican woman. After the Nov. 8 election, Knox County alone has four female legislators out of 10 seats.”
(Can you name them? Sen. Becky Massey, Rep. Gloria Johnson, Rep. Michele Carringer, Rep. Elaine Davis.)
Sandra Clark is editor/CEO of Knox TN Today Inc.