Denmark maintains press freedoms in 'post-truth' era

TheLocal.dk ^ | 27 April 2017 13:45 CEST+02:00

[Olog-hai]

Denmark continued its position as one of the few success stories in an era in which global media freedom is coming increasingly under threat, says a new report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF).

For the second year running, Denmark took fourth place on the RSF index, despite it being a year in which the global situation relating to press freedoms has worsened in nearly two thirds of the 180 countries in the Index.

The authors of the index cited an article in Denmark’s 1849 constitution which guarantees freedom of speech and says that “censorship and other preventive measures can never again be introduced,” pointing to the publication of the highly controversial Mohammed cartoons by newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2005 as an example of this press freedom.

There was no mention in the index of Denmark’s 2013 Freedom of Information Law (Offentlighedsloven), which enables parliament to keep public records inaccessible to parties, including the press, with “no part” in the cases in question. […]

The US came 43^rd, with the report authors pointing to US President Donald Trump’s verbal attacks towards journalists and attempts to block certain media outlets from White House access. …

[Olog-hai]

So RSF’s criteria is left-wing press freedom to lie and lie some more.

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The press freedom map, which is distributed in print and digital versions, offers a visual overview of the sitution in each country in the Index.

The colour categories are assigned as follows: good (white), fairly good (yellow), problematic (yellow), bad (red) and very bad (black).

Okay, so we know they're racists.

What else?

[meadsjn]

press freedoms in 'post-truth' era

That simply means that the press is a non-stop propaganda machine for the global communists.

[Lurkinanloomin]

The Ministry of Propaganda does not like that they have lost their monopoly on information flow.