Comments on: Why is it on the "Reporters Without Borders" Press Freedom Index, we’re #20, next to Jamaica and the UK?

By: Jacob W

Jacob W — Thu, 13 May 2010 22:04:59 +0000

Perhaps it is because Obama has not held a Press Conference since June of 2009. *
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By: Mateo

Mateo — Thu, 13 May 2010 21:46:59 +0000

You see this as fact, I see it as a prime opportunity to question the nature of th epolls, the things they are looking for and the questions they are asking.

Everyone can make up statistics, it takes an open mind to investiage the validity of those numbers.

Even so, say the US really is number 20… according to these numbers it’s actually improved in American quite substantially over the past 5 years. If you extrapolate those results, perhaps America will be number 1 in another 5?
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By: iwasnotanazipolka

iwasnotanazipolka — Thu, 13 May 2010 21:08:59 +0000

We got everything from FOX, Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Pat Robertson and Savage on one side and NPR, MSNBC, Bill Maier, The Daily Show on the other – all free to say what they want and, sure they get grief, but not from the government. Sounds like a bunch of nincompoops who hate America looking for a way to slag us. Ignore these idiots and see that our press is free and unfettered.
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By: James L

James L — Thu, 13 May 2010 20:49:59 +0000

Because those reporters hate America and take every opportunity to disparage it. And yet they are free to do so in America. Anti-American rants have become very popular in the international press and even in the American press. But just because liberal extremists hate capitalism and think that "corporate owned" media can never be as fair and open as state run media like China and North Korea doesn't make it true.
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By: Smells like New Screen Names

Smells like New Screen Names — Thu, 13 May 2010 20:24:59 +0000

I think a lot of it has to do with well publicized cases during the Bush years (both sides of aisle), when the press was persecuted to reveal sources. Even today, the precedents established at that time are still in effect. Note to the Knee Jerk denial Squad: The rise in the US score is largely due, although not exclusively due, to the prosecutions carried out as to just which White House staff member outed Valerie Plame. You may institute a complete 360 and began to blame democrats now. I'll still condemn it and hold out for press freedoms
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By: Reality Has A Conservative Bias

Reality Has A Conservative Bias — Thu, 13 May 2010 20:03:59 +0000

Wikepida is not a source
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By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 13 May 2010 19:55:59 +0000

Liberal agenda perhaps?
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