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Freedom of the Press
Biggles
<font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
in Zocalo v2.0
The latest survey of press freedom all over the world is now [url=http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=11715]available[/url].
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Now Freedoom of the Free Press if differnt..
What sucks is canada is 18th:(
Says it all.
"When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives."
-Robert A. Heinlein
So what was Dubya doing?
[B][url]http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2004/10/06/no-longer-obeying-orders/[/url]
Says it all.[/B][/QUOTE]
It sure does. That's why I'll never completely trust whatever the "mainstream" news media says about any given subject unless I've got a way to confirm what they're saying.
[B]It sure does. That's why I'll never completely trust whatever the "mainstream" news media says about any given subject unless I've got a way to confirm what they're saying. [/B][/QUOTE]
Especially after the CBS fiasco...
[B]It sure does. That's why I'll never completely trust whatever the "mainstream" news media says about any given subject unless I've got a way to confirm what they're saying. [/B][/QUOTE]
Yeah, things like Mt St Helens blowing up aren't as difficult to verify unless you live far enough away... :p
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Biggles [/i]
[B]The latest survey of press freedom all over the world is now [url=http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=11715]available[/url]. [/B][/QUOTE]
I'm not putting much faith in that report. Their reasons for lower ranks in a lot of countries is very weak at best IMHO.
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Striker [/i]
[B]I'm not putting much faith in that report. Their reasons for lower ranks in a lot of countries is very weak at best IMHO. [/B][/QUOTE]
So the States should be number 1 no matter what?
- PJH
Having been a reporter and editor and having worked with other editors as well as photographers for all sorts of assignments, I've yet to hear any complaints, or run into any unreasonable obstacles. In fact, the only restriction I've run into in 2 years is not being able to cross a police line while the cops were still investigating a crime scene -- which I don't see as a problem. The police have always been helpful. None of our photographers have ever run into any trouble at anti-USA(pro-Hawaiian Sovregenty) or anti-Stryker protests. I've always gotten access to information I've needed. I haven't had any problem with getting interviews with soldiers deployed in Iraq, and neither has any other of our writers.
If there's any percieved barriers for free press in the United States and Canada, except in perhaps isolated incidents, I can't imagine why it would come from anyone that either doesn't like their country for unrelated reasons, or has done something extremely moronic/unethical and then rightly got in trouble for it.
I suspect the rankings are determined by looking at recorded events in each country rather than a survey, judging by the comments for each country, but it may be both.
[B]It probably just means there were a couple of incidents where problems occured, whereas the countries above had none of those incidents. [/B][/QUOTE]
Yeah, but at the same time, it's kind of important to know if there were any opportunities for those incidents to play out in the other countries if they're going to judge freedom of the press by them.
They cite a journalist's house getting raided in Canada, but not why it was raided, or if another journalist in Denmark or wherever did the same thing but didn't get their house raided.
I hate indexes/polls/surveys, etc...