Relax, Reporters Without Borders! Nestor Bedolido, the journalist shot six times in Davao Sur was just a regular guy according to the local police chief.
“He is not a practicing journalist, but is a propagandist. He is working for some political personalities in the province”
That somehow makes his death less tragic, I guess. The guy was practically asking for it, not being a practicing journalist. You know who else was a propagandist? Dr. Jose Rizal. Things didn’t end well for him either.
Not only that, Bedolido, and the other ‘practicing’ journalists in this country are just victims of both a brutal culture and bad luck, says deputy presidential spokesman Gary Olivar.
So shut up about chilling effects and cultures of impunity already.
Chip Tsao may be a racist, but what are you? 
#1 by Renato Pacifico on July 9, 2010 - 6:57 am
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So, slain journalist is not really a journalist. Not worth a newsprint.
But if a journalists is slain, it is worth a newsprint.
Why? Because a Philippine journalist hates competition.