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Putting Journalists in CheckPosted on Jun 5, 2008The World Newspaper Congress played host to Gary Kasparov on Tuesday. The chess wiz and Kremlin antagonist ridiculed his government for imposing limits on free expression. Indeed, Reporters Without Borders’ most recent annual index of global press freedom ranks Russia a dismal 144th. Still, there are plenty of places in the world where you can get beaten, arrested or killed for letting people know what’s going on. It’s hard for the United States to point fingers after holding Al-Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Haj captive for six years. For that reason and others, the U.S. was ranked only 48th, behind Nicaragua. With Scott McClellan, of all people, challenging the backbone of the American journalist, now seems as good a time as any to take a look at the state of the world’s press. Click here to check out Reporters Without Borders’ annual index of press freedom.
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By Virginia777, August 23, 2008 at 9:14 am Link to this comment
Yeah, I checked out Reporter Without Borders Annual Index of Press “Freedom”.
Did the publisher of this post?? it doesn’t look like it.
RWB could only name ONE journalist the U.S. imprisoned, spent the rest of the U.S. section harping about censorship of a lone BLOGGER (not reporter!)
and stuck in a plug for the “Freedom of Information Act” - an act that has become a tool for the Right to attack public institutions (like public schools).
This report is BOGUS!
Truthdig needs to exercise more caution when quoting Reporters Without Borders - they have been “outed” for a long time now, as nothing less than a Paid arm of the U.S. State Department.
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