RP Ranked Sixth on List of 14 Countries Considered Unsafe for Journalists

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The Philippines is still sixth on a list of 14 countries “where journalists are killed regularly and governments fail to solve the crimes,” this is according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists’ (CPJ) Impunity Index for 2009 titled “Getting Away With Murder.”  The Impunity Index “calculates the number of unsolved journalist murders as a percentage of a country’s population.” The second edition of the CPJ report this year was launched by CPJ officials in a press conference in Quezon City Monday. Elisabeth Witchel, Impunity Campaign coordinator of the CPJ, said they chose …