We're #53! We're #53! And it shows.

[LynnTheDem]

US spin on Georgia war shows how vital it is to have free media

What is disturbing is how jingoistic and partisan the US news coverage is over the Georgia conflict. It is clearer to me now how these US news agencies were able to stir up public support after 9/11 to invade Afghanistan and then Iraq. It's frightening how the agencies have, in many ways, become a mouthpiece for their government's policy.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=359&objectid=10527412

The ONLY NATION on the entire planet that thought Iraq did 911? The USA.

The nation currently holding the #53 slot for freedom of the press? Guess.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1027/dailyUpdate.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/23/AR2006102301148.html

[EFerrari]

1. Why do they even bother with different mastheads.

It's ridiculous already. With the anthrax case, you could trace the government spam from venue to venue. Unreal.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Wow...Exactly how is it we are still considered the "Leader of the Free World"????

[ClayZ]

3. shhhhhh! The republicans don't want to know that we aren't!

K and R

[orleans]

4. those articles are from 2006. i wonder where we rank now? 80th?

on edit--NOPE. apparently we are now...48!

hooray!

The USA is ranked 48th on the World Press Freedom Index behind such countries as Latvia, Lithuania, Nicaragua, the Czeck Republic, Romania, Chili and Taiwan.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Foiled-Obama-Assassination-by-sherry-clark-080830-538.html


on edit again...this is from an article titled:
Foiled Obama Assassination Plot Gets Little US Coverage