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Here copy from my direct answer: Large parts of former Soviet occupied and Warsaw Pact countries are marked either as not assessed or free. Except Russia along

• rdtsc 10y ago
  Ok valid point. I didn't verify that because it wasn't a central part of the argument. However note, you also missed other parts like Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaidjan? Was that intentional? I don't know, perhaps saying "a majority of post-Soviet states have been labeled by Freedom House as having press freedom issues" is not that controversial? The original discussion diverged into something else that basically say even "free" press doesn't mean what people think it means. And I brought CNN as an example?
  • eveningcoffee 10y ago
    It was not intentional, I just forgot those, more or less, I could not comment if these are correctly classified or not, but these countries are quite authoritarian, so possibly they are. I believe that it is important to understand that in most cases news =/ objective truth. There is always some bias and it is very important to know this bias for every source.