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

Posted by michael on 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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  1. Actually it is America-bashing... by sheldon · · 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.

  2. Re:Misleading. by ender81b · · 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.