links for 2006-10-25

• Reporters sans frontières - Annual Worldwide Press Freedom Index - 2006
  North Korea, Turkmenistan, Eritrea the worst violators of press freedom - France, the United States and Japan slip further - Mauritania and Haiti gain much ground
  (tags: nkorea turkmenistan france u.s.a. japan mauritania haiti freespeech humanrights censorship surveillance media journalism press)

Comments

[mahathir_fan]

Its weird to me that USA would rank at 53 but USA(extra-territorial) would come in at a dismal 119.

[mahathir_fan]

We must also strive for balanced press coverage in addition to freedom of press. Have the American media apologized to the French people especially President Chirac for all the bad taste attack on him and the French people prior to the Iraq war? "I told you so".