David Remnick speaks with the reporter Patricia Evangelista about the country’s drug wars, Rodrigo Duterte’s murderous rhetoric, and what it’s like to cover trauma.
Our topic was her new book, “Some People Need Killing,” about the reign of Rodrigo Duterte. It is hardly written with Orwellian cool, but it stands next to “Homage to Catalonia.” Evangelista’s title comes from a vigilante, whose offhand comment to her exemplified the bloodiness of the Duterte Presidency and its extralegal drug wars. Evangelista covered the killings, which left thousands dead, for the independent news platform Rappler.
And I think the best explanation was something some war correspondent said before: you’re not a camera, in that you take all of this in. I take all of this in, and I live with it every day; every story, every interview I never publish, lives in my head. They play back at three in the morning. And then every phone call from an unknown number, I think, Someone’s going to tell me someone’s dead, and it’s because of something I wrote.
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