ICYMI: U2 frontman Bono on Tuesday expressed his “deep conviction” about journalism, saying that a democracy “requires a free press.” | NAMercadoINQ
“President Duterte is very popular, he doesn’t need me on his side, and as it happens I have a very deep conviction about journalism,” Bono said.
“I probably would have been a journalist if I wasn’t a singer. And so the safety of journalists is very important, and I think a democracy requires a free press. I find some journalists to be a total pain in the arse, but I am really glad they are there,” he added.Bono said he had been a member of rights group Amnesty International all his life.Bono arrived in the Philippines on Wednesday for his first-ever concert here.
In 2018, a report of the Southeast Asia Media Freedom published by the International Federation of Journalists dubbed the Philippines as among the seven worst countries in Southeast Asia for journalists due to the threat of impunity, safety, and censorship.One of the most notorious cases in the country, the Maguindanao massacre, is deemed as the world’s deadliest single attack on members of the media as 32 of the 58 those killed were journalists.
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