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U.S. Ranks 17th in Freedom of the Press
reimero writes "According to this article on Yahoo! Germany the U.S. has experienced "serious restrictions" in freedom of the press, according to Reporters without borders' first worldwide press freedom index. Finland, Iceland, Norway and the Netherlands came in tops. An interesting study, to say the least."
How about some english, der jackass.
In what other countries that are supposedly better than us are the press free to walk out into public with a Swastika armband, yell "HEIL HITLER" at the top of your lungs, and give the Roman salute?
Going to a more serious matter, which of those European countries would allow a true report on the pernicious effects of uncontrolled illegal immigration? Most of their presses are so controlled by political correctness that you cannot offend anyone or anything.
These are seriously just more leftist lies that try to paint the US as some kind of dictatorship just because the media isn't slanted to the far left like theirs.
Media concentration may be a problem, but we at least have a constitutional amendment protecting our rights.
Here is their idea of freedom of the press:
A: We have the freedom to print malicous and many times false and misleading articles on both public and private citizens
B: We have the right to interfere with police investigations putting people lives at risk. Including invalidating/contaminating evidence.
C: We have the right to report secret government information that places security at risk and could result in the deaths of our soldiers and aid our enemies.
D: We have the right to put forth our own political agendas and parade our biases as Journalism.
E: We have the right to, without jury or due process, label someone guilty by inference.
I question "The Journalist" these days. Especially after the military plane in Maryland fiasco. Lets not even start with CNN and the Gulf War. Or How about our plans for our recent IRAQ plans, that was nice.
There is a fine line between the right to privacy and the rights of "journalists".
-=[ Who Is John Galt? ]=-
wait till that guy finishes his shooting spree....Bush will soon be restricting your movements in your own house...let alone restricting free speech
(aka your bowel movements, emotional moveme...ahh..nevermind.)
We're like rats, in some experiment! -- George Costanza
This list is bogus...
How long do reporters in Finland, Iceland, Norway, and the other 'top' countries believe they will keep this Freedom of the Press without firearms? When a society is not armed, the government can take every freedom and the people won't be able to do anything.
At least we have the second amendment in America. That freedom will retain other rights, albeit the second amendment is being attacked by "gun control".
> It is most certainly not fine to essentailly harass reporters for doing their job.
"Their job" is to sell newspapers, magazines or get radio/tv ratings.
Imagine, if you will, a reporter who knows who the sniper in the DC area is. He converses with him every day, and gets the 'scoop' on each murder, and gets the first gory shots of the latest victim to print.
Now when the police ask him to reveal the 'sources' identity, he refuses. Of course he cites some moralistic argument about some made-up "journalistic integrity", but all he really wants is his daily bi-line.
You think that should be protected? The Reporters without Borders sure do.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
CNN tries to be balanced. They always have tried. They're probably a little left-leaning, but in recent years they've come muth further towards the center, often over-compensating and leaning to the right.
I'm speechless. You, sir, need a brain enema.
The opposite of progress is congress
The arrests, both in the US and in Europe, during what you call "anti-capitalism parades" have been draconian, often sweeping up everyone in a given area rather than focusing on the thugs at one corner who use any rally as an excuse to riot. Arresting someone who is clearly a journalist at such an event is an abuse of freedom of the press, and has a chilling effect on reporters covering demonstrations.
Not scary at all, since it's a complete LOAD OF SHIT.
Not sure what the poster you replied to prefers, but I HAVE lived in both countries, and can attest that USSR was a lot less free than US.
Moreover, the same can be said about Russia, although obviously to lesser degree.
Any American who thinks US is less free than Cuba ought to go biu himself a ticket and live in Cuba.
-DVK
"The right to figure things out for yourself is the only true freedom everyone shares. Go use it"-R.A.Heinlein
Oh, good freedom of the press there. Shoot people for having an unpopular opinion.
I don't doubt the Holocaust happened. But I wasn't there, nor do I know any one who was there. So it is all heresay of hearsay, or history books and The History Channel. This is an example of the former: One of my friends claims to personally know Jewish men who were in the concentration camps, and who say the Holocaust stories you heard about are lies. My friend says these Jewish men were told to make up the terrible stories, they were told to do so by Jewish leaders who were never in the camps, and they had to make up the stories so that the world would give the Jewish leaders whatever they wanted, which was power.
I am not making this up. I don't know if my friend was making this up, but he seemed really sincere.I don't know if the Jewish men he knows were making it up either. But if I published this anecdote in Germany, I would be arrested for it. Rather than having other Jewish people who were also in the camps convice me of the Holocaust, I would be locked up. Or shot by you.
Give me American freedom of the press anyday.
Oh, and President Clinton was "was a genius (sp?) in rethorics and speach," too, but I don't consider that a redeeming quality. The ooze that comes out of a zit has more going for it than that, for the exact reason that the ooze won't brainwash millions of people to support it.
Why change the subject?
You stated that disagreeing with Bush means that you're a terrorist, but if you read the article you linked to you would realize that Bush was talking to other NATIONS. He was pressuring them into getting involved in the anti-terrorist BS that went down after Sept. 11.
Anyway, you're making it out to be something which it is not, and you get modded up for it. I guess the anti-US threads are really popular among the non-US posters here.
Why do I keep typing pythong?