U.S. Falls to 44th in World Press Freedom Ranking

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The United States dropped more than 20 spots, to 44th place, mainly because of the imprisonment of New York Times reporter Judith Miller and judicial action that was "undermining the privacy of journalistic sources," the statement said.
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The top 10 countries on the list are European, led by Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Iceland, Norway and the Netherlands, where "robust press freedom is firmly established."

A growing number of African and Latin American countries earned higher rankings, including Benin, which ranked 25th, and El Salvador, 28th.

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Left out of the report is that legal percedant has been established concerning truth in the news media.

There are no laws, rules, regulations, or code that compelling News media to tell the truth.

They can lie to you, and its perfectly legal.

www.abovetopsecret.com...

This is born out by the high numbers of Americans that still believe WMD were found in Iraq.....

[edit on 23-10-2005 by ArchAngel]

I have posted this News a Few days ago, and There was no Response to it.

I hope your thread gets some more Attention.

The country that I am from, Slovenia, Ranked 9th!

Nine states that have had independence (or recovered it within the past 15 years) are among the top 60 countries - Slovenia (9th), Estonia (11th), Latvia (16th), Lithuania (21st), Namibia (25th), Bosnia-Herzegovina (33rd), Macedonia (43rd), Croatia (56th) and East Timor (58th).

Here is a link to my thread::

Annual Worldwide Press Freedom Index

Iceland keeps looking better and better. Wish I could get an ID to travel. Since it's so easy to get in this country, why is it so hard to leave?

Who cares about New York times or anything printed on paper. The real new sources are here on the internet, like ATS, Slashdot and GoogleNews.

anyone know what place canada was in, cause we are a pretty free.

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Annual Worldwide Press Freedom Index

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