If there is one thread that links the murders (again and again and again) of media workers in the country, this is it: the victims are from the provinces. The murdered media workers, this is the sad story, submitted work on a piece meal basis for the tabloids and broadsheets and got paid per column inch. They moonlighted as radio block-timers to complement what they did for print.

You can imagine the struggle to survive on a column-inch-to-column-inch existence. Or, on the back of some penny ante ad contracts wangled for the one-hour radio program. Surviving, essentially, in this kind of hostile setting.

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