robert mahoney is the deputy executive director of the committee to protect journalists, join me now from nova scotia in canada. so good. have you with us on the program. the nobel prize can often highlight and issue light press freedoms. how important is this award for putting a spotlight on journalism? it's extremely important and extremely welcome. it's the 1st time in more than 18 years that a journalist has been awarded the nobel peace prize. and the 2 journalists that you just mentioned from the philippines and russia, from 2 of the countries where it's incredibly dangerous and difficult to be an independent journalist. so this is a very welcome move, and we hope that it highlights the plight of john most globally who every day put their life or their liberty on the line to bring us the news. maria, as it touched on this because she said, i mean basically how difficult is it to tell the truth, be it in the philippines or anywhere else in the world of social media, where everyone, things that now a social journalist, your well social media, when it 1st came upon the scene was fo