World Press Freedom Index

[Free Palestine]

http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=554

World Press Freedom Index ranking:

Denmark
Finland
Iceland
Ireland
Netherlands
Norway
Switzerland
Slovakia
Czech Republic
Slovenia
Estonia
Hungary
New Zealand
Sweden
Trinidad and Tobago
Austria-
Latvia
Belgium
Germany
Greece
Canada
Lithuania
Portugal
United Kingdom
Benin
Cyprus
Namibia
El Salvador
Cape Verde
France
Australia
South Africa
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jamaica
Mauritius
South Korea
Japan
Mali
Hong-Kong
Spain
Costa Rica
Italy
Macedonia
United States of America

...

[Andy Bowden]

Interesting - but dont the RSF admit to taking some money from the US Govt, which has led to their reporting on Cuba being questioned for it's objectivity?

They put Cuba as the second worst country for Journalists last year, which is utter bollocks - even AI recognises that places like Colombia and Saudi Arabia are far more repressive than Cuba allegedly is.

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

LOL @ this shit.

Next someone is going to post the results of a "study" from the National Endowment for Democracy.

[Marxistinn]

LoL

If i get this right it's a list of countries where the press is free?

Having Iceland in first place (with the others) is stupid.

Just looke at the Baugur Group trial. All the newspapers are either with the government, or with Baugur Group, shitting all over each other.

And the National TV (RÚV)

If you want to becom a newsreporter on that station, you have to take a test, and on that test you are asked for opinions regarding politics, and they check if you're a part of any Polital Group. If you're not a capitalist you don't get the job. A Woman who's been working on the Radio didn't become a news anchor because her husband was involved in The Icelandic Socialists (VG) and she had be the host of one seminar or something.

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

Dominican republic #51???

Apparently this is a measure of the "freeness" of the spread of capitalistic ideas.

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

Reporter's without borders unmasked (http://www.counterpunch.org/barahona05172005.html)

The reporter's without borders fraud (http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=45&ItemID=7851)

Government funds color press group’s objectivity (http://www.newsguild.org/gr/gr_display.php?storyID=2213)

[bolshevik butcher]

90 Burundi 23,00
- Cambodia 23,00
- Qatar 23,00
- Venezuela 23,00
- Zambia

?? Venezuela 90th? It's not that bad there, well so my comerad ewho was there tells me.

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

Read the links I just posted.