The following are country rankings in Reporters Without Borders' press freedom index. The higher a country is the freer its press is.
8th - Slovakia
9th - Czech Republic, Slovenia
11th - Estonia
12th - Hungary
16th - Latvia
21st - Lithuania
25th - Benin, Namibia
28th - El Salvador
33rd - Bosnia and Herzegovina
43rd - Macedonia
44th - UNITED STATES
45th - Bolivia
46th - Uruguay
47th - Israel
48th - Mozambique
50th - Chile
As you can see 6 former Soviet countries and 3 former Yugoslavian countries actually rank above the USA, as well as a number of African countries.
All but one (Poland) of the 25 EU countries rank above the USA. Canada, Australia, South Africa, Japan and New Zealand also rank above the USA. In other words every major democratic country except Russia (and is Russia even democratic?) ranks above the USA. For a country that values its freedoms so highly, this is a very poor record. The question is, are the American people aware of this?
2006-08-05
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