US Slips Again In Freedom of the Press Ranking

npwa writes to tell us Reporters Without Borders has released their annual worldwide press freedom index. While developing nations like Haiti and Mauritania continue to gain ground developed nations like France, Japan, and the US continue their downward spiral. From the article: "The United States (53rd) has fallen nine places since last year, after being in 17th position in the first year of the Index, in 2002. Relations between the media and the Bush administration sharply deteriorated after the president used the pretext of 'national security' to regard as suspicious any journalist who questioned his 'war on terrorism.' The zeal of federal courts which, unlike those in 33 US states, refuse to recognise the media's right not to reveal its sources, even threatens journalists whose investigations have no connection at all with terrorism."

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Re:10 reasons why the US is hated all over the wor

[hcob$]

abstinence instead of condoms in Africa to stop AIDS

Well, one of those is 100% effective and the other is not... And I think you know which is which.

and the rest of the world is your problem, that is if you want to stop them wanting to fly airplanes into your assets Oh, and it's ALL our fault that someone got a bug up their ass about the US being "Satan" and in "defending the muslim world" decide to slam planes into building killing thousands of people. I'm sure the next thing you will say is that we brought it on ourselves for not buying off the pooer countries in the world.

Re:10 reasons why the US is hated all over the wor

[krell]

"Why the hell do people in the USA expect the palestinians to accept something similar?"

They should be lucky to get even that after wholeheartedly engaging in a war of extermination against the Israelis.