U.S. Ranks 17th in Freedom of the Press

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U.S. Ranks 17th in Freedom of the Press

Posted by michael on Wednesday October 23, 2002 @07:22AM from the even-canada-kicked-our-[censored] dept.

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."

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If only Free Speech... by xianzombie · 2002-10-23 07:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

meant the same as free beer....
1. Re:If only Free Speech... by entrylevel · 2002-10-23 12:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  If my mod points lasted until the 24th, like those bastards told me, I would mod you up as funny, cuz that was.
  
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  Karma: Incomprehensible (Mostly affected by posting at +5, reading at -1, and metamoderating everything unfair.)
UK worse than US? by tetranz · 2002-10-23 07:31 · Score: 0, Offtopic

That's a surprise.
Re:Canada Kicks Ass Again by powerbarr · 2002-10-23 07:37 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You really should not talk about Quebec that way!
Re:Canada Kicks Ass Again by haa...jesus+christ · 2002-10-23 07:44 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Yeah, we may be assholes, but at least we're not a bunch of pinko fuckheads. enjoy your third rate utopia.
Actually it is America-bashing... by sheldon · 2002-10-23 08:04 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Try to buy a copy of Mein Kampf in Germany, next time you are over there.

The authors of this list obviously do not understand what Freedom of the Press means.
Re:Misleading. by ender81b · 2002-10-23 08:07 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Been a long time but.... set up wget to grab the link, oh, 4 million or so times? I would guess that google has some sort of system that prevents this though so you would probably have to go through some hoops.
Babelfish says different... by tlianza · 2002-10-23 08:50 · Score: 0, Offtopic

USA auf Index für Pressefreiheit nur auf Platz 17

I tell you what, I didn't believe it so I ran that german article through Babelfish to see what it really said. Turns out the survey just found the US is #1 among countries with the hottest 17 year old girls.
Re:how scary is it ... by charon_on_acheron · 2002-10-23 13:36 · Score: 0, Offtopic

At least CoreDump01 and I had an intelligent conversation before some had their feeling hurt by my post, and decided I was trolling.

Hey, moderator, did you even read the rest of the thread? Trolling Slashdot is fun at times, but this wasn't it.
Re:Linux and XP - use both by charon_on_acheron · 2002-10-23 13:40 · Score: 0, Offtopic

And now it's Flamebait. Right in the middle of an intelligent conversation. About freedom of the press no less.

Hey moderator. What's wrong? Ran out of mod points before getting to my other posts?