My friends, former students and people who know me in general, know that I have an insatiable passion for reading.
And yet I have seldom made these glowing comments I will be making on “How to Stand Up to a Dictator: the Fight for our Future” , written by Maria Ressa.
In the Foreword, Amal Clooney, the internationally acclaimed human rights advocate, writes: “When you think of a superhero, you may not imagine a five-foot two-inch woman with a pen in her hand. But today, journalists operating in authoritarian countries need superpowers… They face daily threats to their reputation, freedom and –in some places – their life. And Maria Ressa is one of them.”
The third layer is on her personal views on the mission of journalism, the transformation of the world due to Big Data, to her views on social media and its effects on society. And yet, the most fascinating discovery is how she was able to weave all these five layers into a single intertwined narrative. Each scene enables the reader to vividly envision the environment of the book. At the same time, the dialogue where she quotes from the different personalities in her stories makes this sound like an epic saga.
In her book, Ressa said that the rest of the world could look at the experience of Rappler in the Philippines and “… use it to understand its own political context and situation on how to fight back. My hope is that others can replicate our three pillars: technology, journalism and community to fight back and build forward.”
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