Third Annual Press Freedom Index

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Released by Reporters Without Borders

Reporters Without Borders compiled the index by asking its partner organisations (14 freedom of expression organisations in five continents), its 130 correspondents around the world, as well as journalists, researchers, jurists and human rights activists, to answer 52 questions to indicate the state of press freedom in 167 countries (others were not included for lack of information).

US comes in at 23rd behind a number of the old SSR's... Slovakia (7th) ,Latvia (10th), Estonia (11th), Bosnia & Herzegovina (21st)


http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=11715

--MAB