Journalists and individuals who are critical of those in power tend to be the primary targets of both state and other groups with resources and the means because threats and attacks are intended to scare them, if not stop them altogether in their tracks.<\/p>\n
Those who write under Rappler\u2019s News Break Section, for example \u2501 like other investigative journalists in other media organizations, are well aware of this. Yet they persist in doing what they do. <\/p>\n
Why? In the case of Newsbreak, it has developed a loyal following. They spend a long time reading our investigative and in-depth stories. A big chunk are avid readers of news and politics. They care about \u2018heavy issues\u2019 that affect the nation \u2501 corruption, extra-judicial killings, abuse of power, human rights, gender issues, or the rule of law. These are difficult and life-threatening topics to write about but the \u201chard-core\u201d journalists will not stop, threats notwithstanding. We\u2019ve learned to be smarter in dealing with these threats but will need your help too in continuing this uneasy task. Journalists and individuals who are critical of those in power tend to be the primary targets of both state and other groups with resources and the means because threats and attacks are intended to scare them, if not stop them altogether in their tracks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5382,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381\/revisions\/5382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n \u2501 Chay Hofilena in Rappler <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"