From: chris hibbert (chris@pancrit.org)
Date: Mon Nov 25 2002 - 23:02:17 MST
Amara wrote:
> Worldwide Press Freedom Index
> http://www.rsf.fr/article.php3?id_article=4118
> 1 Finland 0,50
> - Iceland 0,50
> - Norway 0,50
> - Netherlands 0,50
> ...
> 17 United States 4,75
Amara, do you know in what way these countries (and another 12) have a
press that is more free than the press in the US?
I shouldn't have to say this, but: this is a request for information,
and not an attack on the report.
Reporters without borders explained who they asked and how they
tabulated the results, but I couldn't find any indication of which of
the items on their list (directs attacks on journalists and on the
media, punishment for press offenses, a state monopoly in some areas,
the existence of a regulatory body, and the behavior of the state
towards the public media) the respondents said were occurring here.
Chris
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