Watchdog: Press freedom declines around the world

Associated Press ^ | Apr 20, 2016 12:10 AM EDT

[Olog-hai]

Media freedom around the world has suffered a “deep and disturbing decline” due to by pressure from governments and businesses, an international media watchdog said Wednesday.

The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said in an annual report that many of the world’s leaders have developed “a paranoia” about journalism and are clamping down on the media, while coverage in privately-owned outlets is increasingly shaped by corporate interests. …

[Common Sense 101]

Yeah, cry me a river... so did it’s alleged objectivity. About five decades ago...

[Opinionated Blowhard]

While Europe has the freest media, according to the report, some countries, such as Poland fell sharply on the press freedom index by tightening government control. In Hungary, the government has also sought to impose restrictions on press freedoms.

LOL. Gee. What is probably the biggest story of European press censorship over the past several years? The press being pressured to not run cartoons and articles critical of Muslims and Mohammad. I wonder why the AP doesn't mention that. /sarc

[Flintlock]

Vellll-come to zeh NEW WORLD ORDER.

(SO MUCH better than that old “free speech” thingy!)

[hardspunned]

It would take an Orwellian apparatus that Stalin would envy to forcibly muzzle the press as effectively as they voluntarily censure themselves.