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# Nobel winner: ‘We journalists are the defence line between dictatorship and war’
- URL: https://werd.io/nobel-winner-we-journalists-are-the-defence-line-between-dictatorship/
- Published: 2021-12-05T05:12:11.000Z
- Updated: 2021-12-05T05:12:11.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:24

“Ressa has spent much of the last four years trying to point out that none of this is happening in isolation and that the “assault on truth” is doing the same to western democracies as it has done to her country. Muratov is even more gloomy. “It’s terrifying that countries that have been living in a democracy for so many years are rolling towards a dictatorship. That’s just a terrifying thought.””

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