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by f_salmon 4501 days ago
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The Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without Borders has the U.S. ranked #46 in their 2004 report [0] - just above Haiti and just below Romania.

[0] http://rsf.org/index2014/en-index2014.php
1 comments
kennywinker 4501 days ago
On The Media last week had a great piece on why this index is pretty bunk http://www.onthemedia.org/story/press-freedom-not-decline/

OTM is a pretty great podcast, by the way. Covers lots of stuff about the Snowden leaks with a very level head.

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Zigurd 4500 days ago
Click through to the actual WaPo article. It isn't exactly a huge endorsement of US press freedom.

The article has a graph showing US press freedom bouncing between sort of OK down to "less than Lithuania" levels over a period of decades. In other words, mediocre levels of press freedom happen regularly in the US. That does not actually contradict the notion that, currently, it sucks.

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