Paradigm shift in the killing of journalists

THE NUMBERS alone should be cause for concern. The killing of journalists is continuing, with 134 killed in the line of duty out of a total number of 201 killed since 1986. Sixteen have been killed since 2010, when Benigno Aquino III assumed the Presidency—on a promise, one might add, to end  the killing of journalists and media workers, and the extrajudicial killings of human rights defenders, environmentalists, pastors and priests, left-wing activists, lawyers and judges, and reform-minded local officials.