AWARDING Maria Ressa the Senate Medal of Excellence for her being conferred the Nobel Peace Prize is an insult to us professional Philippine journalists, and to all Filipinos.

The peace prize (and not for journalism) was given by a five-man panel of Norwegians — most likely because of US maneuvering or pressure — who don't know anything about the Philippines, like most of the other US media outfits that similarly praised her "work." The Norwegians probably thought, because of Ressa's claims, that we are a country somewhere in Africa barely out of the Stone Age.

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