Despite being on the authoritarian president's side, both are humanized, with their own reasons for being pro-regime. Diaz does a fine job of interviewing the journalists involved and also pro-Duterte officials, like influencer-turned-government secretary Mocha Uson and General Ronald "Bato" Dela Rosa, who runs for office after leading a campaign to kill drug addicts on Duterte's behalf. There's a slippery slope, Ressa and the Rappler journalists explain, between suppressing the media and propagandist behavior.ĭirector Ramona S. What Duterte is doing - calling out the media engaging paid trolls pressuring his legal branch to investigate, arrest, and sue journalists encouraging and retweeting people who ridicule and even threaten prominent journalists - is more relevant than ever, and definitely not just in the global South or developing countries' democracies. What happens in the Philippines matters to the rest of the world, Ressa says in one interview.
This powerful, educational documentary exposes the challenges of being a journalist in an increasingly anti-press democracy in which leadership labels the entire media industry fake.
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And the movie ultimately shows how the suppression of an independent, free press weakens society and leads to propaganda. Through it all, the featured journalists, led by Maria Ressa, exemplify how being a journalist requires courage, curiosity, perseverance, and communication. Violence includes images of people murdered in the streets, as well as footage of the president and his followers threatening to kill drug users and violently attack prominent members of the press corps. The language is occasionally strong in English, subtitled Tagalog, and social media posts, including "f-k," "bitch," "s-t," etc. Diaz, the documentary explores, via interviews and archival footage, how quickly and easily Duterte convinced his followers that the media is fake, unpatriotic, and actively trying to destroy him - and, by extension, the Philippines. Directed by Filipino American filmmaker Ramona S. Parents need to know that A Thousand Cuts is a documentary about how the president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, has waged a war of disinformation and lawsuits against media outlets that are critical of his administration.
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