Freedom breaking out in foreign media?

[Scronx]

This just in from renowned SC patriot Reb Sutherland. The good news is that the bad news about the controlled ameriKan mass media is getting around -- and that other countries may be experience a new flowering of press freedom. One wonders exactly how "open" these new media modalities are -- your thoughts please.


Even Benin in W Africa (formerlyDahomey) and El Salvador have a better record thanameriKa in this matter. How long tillour mass media moguls get the message? Will they, like so many governors and pols dumped from office by the new Southern cause, go out of business still wondering what hit them?


True liberal utopianists never actually wonder this, of course. They just come up with some new study and hypothesis and graph and alibi to cover themselves at such times.



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<DIV>Subject: (article)US ranks 44th in Worldwide Press Freedom Index . . . by Westi-Henriksen</DIV>
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U.S. Ranks 44th in Worldwide Press Freedom Index

Nation's openness sinking after Sept. 11, northern
Europe tops the list

Jesper Westi-Henriksen

The annual worldwide press freedom index from
Reporters Without Borders shows the United States,
which is supposedly spreading freedom and liberty
throughout the world, is in a fast decline regarding
the freedom of its own press.

The report ranked the United States in 44th place, an
atomic drop from a favorable position of 22nd held
last year, and from a handsome 17th place in 2002.

The organization mentioned that several journalists
were expelled from the country since the terrorist
attacks of 2001.

South Korea, positioned at 34th place, is improving
its image, partly because of open-source media
OhmyNews. Any citizen in South Korea can be a
reporter, thanks to its policy of posting submissions
from people with all backgrounds.

OhmyNews was key in determining the outcome of the
2002 South Korean presidential election, as the
nation's youth supported candidate Roh Moo Hyun. After
being elected, Roh granted his first interview to
OhmyNews.

Denmark also has an open-source news Web site,
Flix.dk, but is regarded as years behind the South
Korean site in terms of influence on public
perceptions.

Open source journalism and Internet blogs are hooking
more and more readers for every day. At the same time
the mainstream media, or established media, has been
on a steady decline by losing readership and
subscriptions during the last years.

Repeated evidence of the media printing government
propaganda and misleading information leading up to
the U.S.-led Iraq invasion have surely made the
decline of mainstream readers accelerate.

European nations Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Iceland,
the Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland tied for
first. North Korea was ranked last out of 167
countries surveyed.

A full list can be found at the RSF Web site.

http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=15331

COMPLETE LIST

N° Country Note

1 Denmark 0,50 - Finland 0,50 - Iceland 0,50 - Ireland
0,50 - Netherlands 0,50 - Norway 0,50 - Switzerland
0,50
8 Slovakia 0,75
9 Czech Republic 1,00 - Slovenia 1,00
11 Estonia 1,50
12 Hungary 2,00 - New Zealand 2,00 - Sweden 2,00 -
Trinidad and Tobago 2,00
16 Austria 2,50 - Latvia 2,50
18 Belgium 4,00 - Germany 4,00 - Greece 4,00
21 Canada 4,50 - Lithuania 4,50
23 Portugal 4,83
24 United Kingdom 5,17
25 Benin 5,50 - Cyprus 5,50 - Namibia 5,50
28 El Salvador 5,75
29 Cape Verde 6,00
30 France 6,25
31 Australia 6,50 - South Africa 6,50
33 Bosnia and Herzegovina 7,00
34 Jamaica 7,50 - Mauritius 7,50 - South Korea 7,50
37 Japan 8,00 - Mali 8,00
39 Hong-Kong 8,25
40 Spain 8,33
41 Costa Rica 8,50
42 Italy 8,67
43 Macedonia 8,75
44 United States of America (American territory) 9,50
45 Bolivia 9,67
46 Uruguay 9,75
47 Israel 10,00
48 Bulgaria 10,25
49 Mozambique 10,50
50 Chile 11,75
51 Dominican Republic 12,25 - Taiwan 12,25
53 Cyprus (North) 12,50 - Mongolia 12,50 - Poland
12,50
56 Croatia 12,83
57 Niger 13,00
58 Timor-Leste 13,50
59 Argentina 13,67
60 Botswana 14,00 - Fiji 14,00
62 Albania 14,17
63 Brazil 14,50 - Tonga 14,50
65 Serbia and Montenegro 14,83
66 Ghana 15,00 - Panama 15,00
68 Nicaragua 15,25
69 Paraguay 15,50
70 Romania 16,17
71 Congo 17,00 - Guinea-Bissau 17,00 - Seychelles
17,00
74 Moldova 17,50 - Tanzania 17,50
76 Angola 18,00 - Honduras 18,00
78 Burkina Faso 19,00 - Senegal 19,00
80 Uganda 19,25
81 Lesotho 19,50
82 Central African Republic 19,75
83 Cameroon 20,50 - Liberia 20,50
85 Kuwait 21,25
86 Guatemala 21,50
87 Ecuador 21,75
88 Comoros 22,00
89 Malawi 22,75
90 Burundi 23,00 - Cambodia 23,00 - Qatar 23,00 -
Venezuela 23,00 - Zambia 23,00
95 Togo 23,75
96 Jordan 24,00
97 Madagascar 24,50
98 Turkey 25,00
99 Georgia 25,17
100 Kosovo 25,75 - United Arab Emirates 25,75
102 Armenia 26,00 - Gabon 26,00 - Guinea 26,00 -
Indonesia 26,00
106 India 27,00
107 Thailand 28,00
108 Lebanon 28,25
109 Chad 30,00 - Kenya 30,00
111 Kyrgyzstan 32,00
112 Ukraine 32,50
113 Malaysia 33,00 - Tajikistan 33,00
115 Sri Lanka 33,25
116 Peru 33,33
117 Haiti 33,50
118 Swaziland 35,00
119 Kazakhstan 36,17 - Morocco 36,17
121 Djibouti 37,00
122 Rwanda 38,00
123 Bahrein 38,75 - Nigeria 38,75
125 Afghanistan 39,17
126 Sierra Leone 39,50
127 Mauritania 40,00
128 Colombia 40,17
129 Algeria 40,33
130 Gambia 41,00
131 Ethiopia 42,00
132 Palestinian Authority 42,50
133 Equatorial Guinea 44,00 - Sudan 44,00
135 Mexico 45,50
136 Yemen 46,25
137 United States of America (in Iraq) 48,50
138 Russia 48,67
139 Philippines 50,00
140 Singapore 50,67
141 Azerbaijan 51,00
142 Bhutan 51,50
143 Egypt 52,00
144 Côte d'Ivoire 52,25
145 Syria 55,00
146 Democratic Republic of Congo 57,33
147 Tunisia 57,50
148 Maldives 58,50
149 Somalia 59,00
150 Pakistan 60,75
151 Bangladesh 61,25
152 Belarus 61,33
153 Zimbabwe 64,25
154 Saudi Arabia 66,00
155 Laos 66,50 - Uzbekistan 66,50
157 Iraq 67,00
158 Vietnam 73,25
159 China 83,00
160 Nepal 86,75
161 Cuba 87,00
162 Libya 88,75
163 Burma 88,83
164 Iran 89,17
165 Turkmenistan 93,50
166 Eritrea 99,75
167 North Korea 109,00

[Michael]

It is interesting to note how the politicians in
some Southern states have been unable to comprehend that “compromising”
with liberals after they promised not to do it will get them tossed out
of office and their businesses boycotted. It is quite
encouraging to see White Southerners (Confederates) standing against
the powers that be so firmly once more. It is also
interesting to note that how the politicians after defeating an
opponent who had promised to support Southern causes and turns around
and betrays the very people who elected them, and then the newly
elected politician does the exact same thing! Then they are
shocked when they too are voted out and their businesses
boycotted. This shows that these politicians are not too bright
and don’t learn from recent history.



The political and business classes appears to be not
much above average intelligence if not below in many cases though many
may appear smarter than they are due to winning
personalities. This in turn, likely, leads to very dumb
decisions that are driving this country into the ground.



As a side note, I wonder if the reason the Asians
are believed by some to be so much smarter than Americans is because
they send their best and brightest to U.S. “elite” University where
they complete against the children of the “elite” many of who wouldn’t
even be in college if they were not who’s children they are. I
went to school with some Asians and Eurasians, I would not say that
they were nearly as intelligent as some would have you believe. I
would say that overall they were of average intelligence.



As for the main focus of your comment on how the
U.S. is slipping in press freedom. You are right, of course, but
many of the European and European descended countries listed high
should not have been due to restrictions on the decision of racial and
historical matters.



The Internet is becoming the great equalizer but it
has yet to reach critical mass in this country yet, but it is just one
economic disaster away from critical mass. Given a little more time
Internet alternative news sites could be very problematic for the elite
in the USA.

[Michael]

Any country that puts their people in prison for disagreeing about historical dogma should be tossed to the very bottom of the list. For you can’t say that a country that will not allow people to disagree with government dogma has freedom of the press or speech. http://www.rense.com/general75/viv.htm

[Nelson3]

Gee, why Iceland, a country full of the hated North Europeans? They're not supposed to be good for anything. Why doesn't it read "Nigeria passes Wikileaks law" or maybe "Burma passes Wikileaks law"?

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=0098199&a mp;From=News


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Icelandic parliament has approved a package of broad protections for
journalists, making the island nation perhaps the safest place in the
world to afflict the comfortable and speak truth to power.



Icelandic leaders wanted to create a haven for journalists and
whistle-blowers and sought assistance from WikiLeaks, the website that
recently released video of U.S. forces gunning down civilians and
journalists in Iraq."
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[Nelson3]

Sit down -- you're going to laugh yourself to pieces on this one. Please, somebody convince me they don't do all this with a straight face!

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