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Freedom of the Press
Worldwide Index of Press Freedom is complied by “Reporters Without Borders”, Ireland, together with Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia and Switzerland topped the Year 2004 list as a haven of peace for journalists.
For the United States of America where where one would typically expect “Fair and Balanced” reporting, its ranking is 23, at par with Beligum, just ahead of Jamaica but behind Bosnia and Herzegovina - the republic which gained its independence from Yugoslavia in the 90s.
Posted on October 31, 2004 01:34 PM
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and the UK has 50% less press freedom than the US. the US numerical score for press restriction is 4 and the UK is 6.
As has been pointed out many times the RSF report, while useful for exposing excesses in sme nasty countries is also heavily weighted against countries like the US.
It overemphaises print media, especially newspapers (while incredibly ignorning new media and blogs). by emphasising print media and giving a high negative for “monopoly” it is inherently biased against the US where cities typically have extremely strong single newspapers, which has always limited national newspapers. so the US has the LA times, the New York Times, the washington Post, The boston Globe, The Miami herald, and dozens of expttremely high quality papers which all contribute to the process, but the US has Less press freedom” since they are located in individual cities.
this is bunk.
Posted by: cal at November 4, 2004 07:28 PM
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