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."

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What's the rest of the ranking?

[MSBob]

Anyone has a link to the complete ranking? Who's number one? Who's last? Actually I have a pretty good idea which countries would be located towards the bottom of that list...

Translation of the German article:

[Neil Blender]

The United States on a worldwide index of the journalist organization "reporters stand without boundary" for the notice of the press freedom only on the 17th place. "Serious restrictions of the press freedom" would be indicated however on each continent, divided the interests representation in Berlin on Wednesday with. Under the 20 countries with the "coarsest offences" accordingly next to African, Asian and latin american countries also the European countries are located Russia and White Russia. As a worst European candidate on the list, Italy landed cuts 40th Germany on rank with the seventh rank quite well off. EU-Beitrittsaspirant Turkey belays the statements according to the 99th place.

Huh?

[JPelorat]

Oh, so because a few journalists have been arrested for trying to cross security lines at official buildings, this is how they 'punish' the US, by giving a bad rating?

Cmon, if a cop or an MP says "No journalists allowed", you deserve all that you get if you try to defy them. "Freedom of press" doesn't mean "Universal Access".