Journalism November 2018

There is an article on the Committee to Protect Journalists website (CPJ) that reports the murder of Edmund Sestoso, a broadcast reporter for a radio station in Dumaguete, Philippines:

“Edmund Sestoso [...] was shot several times at around 10 a.m. on April 30 [...], [He was] returning home after hosting his morning public affairs program, according to reports.

[...] The gunman then shot out the tires of a pedicab that was preparing to take Sestoso to a local hospital before fleeing the scene on the back of an unidentified person's black motorcycle.”

Catching Up

My last post was September of last year. I’m obviously not keeping up. Here are updates to posts from last year I'm publishing so I can move on to other things.

Syria June-July 2018

In early 2017 I watched a graphic documentary, “Cries of Syria.” I learned how the rebellion started in 2011 with the arrest and torture of 15 boys in the city of Daraa because they wrote graffiti on a school wall. The uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt inspired them to write, “Doctor, you’re next,” referring to President al-Assad’s medical degree. One of the boys, 13 years old, died. His parents were told after their child’s mutilated body was returned to them, “you can always make more.”