On June 30, 2022, the Philippines inaugurates a new president: Ferdinand Marcos Jr., son of the deceased former President Ferdinand Marcos Sr. who ruled for years under martial law and was overthrown in 1986. Marcos Jr., also known as Bongbong Marcos, was voted into office in a May 2022 landslide victory alongside vice presidential candidate Sara Duterte, daughter of the outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte.
In 2021, as the race was heating up, FRONTLINE executive producer and host of The FRONTLINE Dispatch Raney Aronson-Rath sat down with Maria Ressa: a winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, founder of the independent Philippine news site Rappler and the subject of FRONTLINE’s January 2021 documentary A Thousand Cuts. Along with the documentary’s director, Ramona S. Diaz, Ressa talked about disinformation, the importance of press freedom, and what she and Diaz were seeing on the ground in the Philippines during the historic campaign season.
A Thousand Cuts is streaming on FRONTLINE’s website, PBS Video app and FRONTLINE’s YouTube channel.
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On June 30, 2022, the Philippines inaugurates a new president: Ferdinand Marcos Jr., son of the deceased former President Ferdinand Marcos Sr. who ruled for years under martial law and was overthrown in 1986. Marcos Jr., also known as Bongbong Marcos, was voted into office in a May 2022 landslide victory alongside vice presidential candidate Sara Duterte, daughter of the outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte.
In 2021, as the race was heating up, FRONTLINE executive producer and host of The FRONTLINE Dispatch Raney Aronson-Rath sat down with Maria Ressa: a winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, founder of the independent Philippine news site Rappler and the subject of FRONTLINE’s January 2021 documentary A Thousand Cuts. Along with the documentary’s director, Ramona S. Diaz, Ressa talked about disinformation, the importance of press freedom, and what she and Diaz were seeing on the ground in the Philippines during the historic campaign season.
A Thousand Cuts is streaming on FRONTLINE’s website, PBS Video app and FRONTLINE’s YouTube channel.
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