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On The Media last week had a great piece on why this index is pretty bunk http://www.onthemedia.org/story/press-freedom-not-decline/ http://www.onthemedia.org/s
by kennywinker 13y ago
On The Media last week had a great piece on why this index is pretty bunk http://www.onthemedia.org/story/press-freedom-not-decline/ http://www.onthemedia.org/story/press-freedom-not-decline/
OTM is a pretty great podcast, by the way. Covers lots of stuff about the Snowden leaks with a very level head.
- Zigurd 13y agoClick through to the actual WaPo article. It isn't exactly a huge endorsement of US press freedom. The article has a graph showing US press freedom bouncing between sort of OK down to "less than Lithuania" levels over a period of decades. In other words, mediocre levels of press freedom happen regularly in the US. That does not actually contradict the notion that, currently, it sucks.