Posted on 10/25/2016 5:53:51 AM PDT by xzins
The United States is ranked 41st in a 2016 global index produced earlier this year by Reporters Without Borders.
“The Index ranks 180 countries according to the level of freedom available to journalists,” the report stated. “It is a snapshot of the media freedom situation based on an evaluation of pluralism, independence of the media, quality of legislative framework and safety of journalists in each country.
“It does not rank public policies even if governments obviously have a major impact on their country’s ranking,” the report stated. “Nor is it an indicator of the quality of journalism in each country.
“Along with the Index, RSF calculates a global indicator and regional indicators that evaluate the overall performance of countries (in the world and in each region) as regards media freedom,” the report stated. “It is an absolute measure that complements the Index’s comparative rankings.
“The global indicator is the average of the regional indicators, each of which is obtained by averaging the scores of all the countries in the region, weighted according to their population as given by the World Bank,” the report stated.
The top 10 countries for freedom of the press, from one to 10, are Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, New Zealand, Costa Rica, Switzerland, Sweden, Ireland and Jamaica.
The countries with the least press freedom, numbered from 170 to 180 are Yemen, Cuba, Djibouti, Laos, Sudan, Vietnam, China, Syria, Turkmenistan, North Korea and Eritrea.
The overall assessment of the index stated: “The 2016 edition of the World Press Freedom Index, which Reporters Without Borders published on 20 April, 2016, shows that there has been a deep and disturbing decline in respect for media freedom at both the global and regional levels.
“The many reasons for this decline in freedom of information include the increasingly authoritarian tendencies of governments in countries such as Turkey and Egypt, tighter government control of state-owned media, even in some European countries such as Poland, and security situations that have become more and more fraught, in Libya and Burundi, for example, or that are completely disastrous, as in Yemen,” the assessment stated.
“The survival of independent news coverage is becoming increasingly precarious in both the state and privately-owned media because of the threat from ideologies, especially religious ideologies, that are hostile to media freedom, and from large-scale propaganda machines,” the assessment stated. “Throughout the world, ‘oligarchs’ are buying up media outlets and are exercising pressure that compounds the pressure already coming from governments.”
Reporters Without Borders has been publishing the World Press Freedom Index since 2002 using the following criteria – “pluralism, media independence, media environment and self-censorship, legislative environment, transparency, infrastructure, and abuses.”
Hillary will take care of this. /sarasm of course
And I have no doubt that Obama’s gift of the internet to China, et al, is all about closing down that avenue of information exchange.
If America’s press is less free it is of their own choosing.
For the most part they have voluntarily agreed to become an arm of the leftists, the DNC and the democrats in power.
If this were about US mathematics scores for high school kids, it would lead the news.
I read recently that all of America news is owned by 6 corporations.
They don’t hire those who won’t play. It’s pay to play there, too.
To my mind, it isn’t “press freedom” so much as it is “willingness to collude” with evil liberal government.
I suspect that those 6 corporations all get a lot of money from the Arab oil world. Our media is designed to destroy this country. Someone wants us to be a shell of what we were. It’s a Muslim thing, I’m sure of it.
BTW, has anybody seen Julian Assange alive in the past week? Who is guarding him and holding him incommunicado? The recent Wikileaks are coming out via a "failsafe" or "deadman switch" protocol.
If I were Matt Drudge or James O'Keefe, I'd be seriously worried.
And of course in my country, it is the CBC and CTV and Globe and Mail and Toronto Star continuing their love affair with our Boy King. So, I would not be surprised that we rank just a little ahead or even a little below the United States concerning something like this.
It is so easy for them (journalists) to succumb to the dark side. Their upbringing, education and work lives have all been influenced and it is a beckoning call to be able to sit on your ass behind a keyboard and type the Democrat Party line having done NO investigative journalism at all.
Journalists are the mere scribes of Democrats/liberals. And they are damn well paid for it considering the effort involved.
Yes. Exactly. They are media whores because their jobs demand it.
The MAM is probably proud of their standing because it shows their absolute fidelity to leftism.
Ranked way too high.
There is little to no press freedom left. The alleged “press” is propaganda, and real journalists are being murdered with increasing frequency.
And of course whistleblowers - very important for a free press in the context of a clamped-down-full-secrecy administration - have been prosecuted with a ferocity never before witnessed.
Actually, we have MORE freedom today than we have since JP Morgan bought up all the important APs in 1910s. We have been “controlled” by the big money machine (psychopathic sodomites) since forever. The masses are easily controlled by rhetoric-—and Plato knew that and why he hated the Arts (it is ALL emotion).
We need Truth to be allowed in the public square again-—it was banned in the 60s and now with the internet we ACTUALLY get some truth but the psychopaths/sodomites are getting total control of the internet as I type-—and they will “trend” what they want to flip the beliefs in your children and destroy Right Reason for radical egalitarianism (AI)-—every thing is artificial Reality (for the children) where Up is Down and Boys are Girls.
For Mind Control, they use culture to embed the emotions and perceptions to the “ideas” by destroying Language/Words-—now rainbows that your little girls draw don’t mean a promise from God—nor is it a Christian/Israeli symbol; Now, it is a vulgar, irrational sex act to corrupt the minds, and their sexual idenity formation which produces a sick, evil, irrational concept of the male/female paradigm (Truth).
All “Just Laws” have to promote “public virtue” because virtue formation is essential to Free Republics......but now, all media promotes evil, vile use of the body and use of others in irrational, evil ways (24/7).
Evil cultures, like the homo-erotic, vulgar Weimar Republic will destroy the minds of children and corrupt them. They glorify evil and dysfunction which will destroy all future relationships and the children that they will be incapable of nurturing.
Nonsense!
Our press is perfectly able to praise any liberal without fear of retribution!
Not quite.
The media hires willing whores.
They get paid to do what they would do anyway, only on a larger stage.
They all think of it as a win-win situation.
Win-win for them!
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