U.S. Drops To Number 47 In Freedom of the Press international ranking!

[Better Believe It]

America’s Press Freedom Ranking Drops Sharply
By: Jon Walker
January 25, 2012

The organization Reporters Without Borders conducts an annual ranking comparing each nation’s level of press freedom, and they’ve just dropped the U.S. rating by 27 places. The dramatic drop came as a result of the many arrests and efforts to harass reporters trying to cover the Occupy movement and the police raids of Occupy encampments. In the 2010 ratings, America was ranked 20th in press freedom, but we have now dropped to 47th this year.

We are now ranked lower then most western European countries including Finland, Norway, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, UK, France, Spain, etc.

One of the many things the occupy movement has done is help focus more attention on the aggressive militarization of basic law enforcement in the United States. And that’s been combined with police efforts to prevent both professional and amateur reporters from covering the story.

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2012/01/25/americas-press-freedom-ranking-drops-sharply/


Read the rankings at:



http://en.rsf.org/spip.php?page=classement&id_rubrique=1043

[Jello Biafra]

1. I'm surprised we ranked that high.....n/t

[sabrina 1]

2. That's about where we were during the early Bush years after Ari Fleischer warned

us that 'we better watch what we say'.

But Americans seem to want censorship. Speaking about issues is considered a threat for some reason. Even on the internet.

[bbgrunt]

3. ain't that the truth

when they started putting protesters in cages outside BOTH party conventions I thought it was just the parties that wanted to close down discussion. Now it seems to be part of the American culture.

[lonestarnot]

4. Gawd how sad. I hope I live long enough to see that turned around.

[joshcryer]

5. Haiti is due to surpass us.

[provis99]

6. liberal countries at the top, conservative countries at the bottom.

Conservatives are responsible for world wide repression, just as they have been all throughout history.