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US Plunges To 46th In World Press Freedom Index

Posted by samzenpus on Monday February 17, 2014 @06:49AM from the out-of-the-medals dept.

schwit1 writes "Reporters Without Borders puts out their Press Freedom Index every year, and the 2014 ranking came out today. It was not a good showing for the U.S. Specifically, the U.S. registered one of the steepest falls of all nations, down 13 slots to the #46 position, just above Haiti and just below Romania."

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Re:We're the best country in the world!!! Woo!! by Anonymous Coward · 2014-02-17 06:58 · Score: 5, Funny

The do care. They want the government to arrest the journalists that reported this.
Re:We're the best country in the world!!! Woo!! by bobbied · 2014-02-17 07:14 · Score: 4, Funny

I'm sorry NOW!

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Re:We're the best country in the world!!! Woo!! by StripedCow · 2014-02-17 07:25 · Score: 5, Funny

The US, land of the free! (*)
(*) applies iff you are the CEO of a MegaCorp.

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Re:We're the best country in the world!!! Woo!! by gnick · 2014-02-17 09:45 · Score: 4, Funny

Yeah! Take that, Haiti!

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