The Media Freedom list from
Reporters without Borders Wednesday, October 17th,
2007
Reporters without Borders has published their annual Press
Freedom list of countries with and without media freedom (and degrees in
between).
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The top 10
countries that are most supportive in freedom of
reporting, where journalists have the most liberty and
exposure:
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Iceland
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Norway
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Estonia
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Slovakia
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Belgium
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Finland
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Sweden
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Denmark
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Ireland
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Portugal |
The worst
offenders, in the bottom 10:
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Uzbekistan
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Laos
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Vietnam
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China
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Burma
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Cuba
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Iran
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Turkmenistan
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North
Korea
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Eritrea |
Not surprisingly, the U.S. did not make the top 10.
Nor the top 20. The United States of America came in at #48.
Canada was ranked #18."There were slightly fewer press freedom violations in the United
States and blogger Josh Wolf was freed after 224 days in prison," stated
Reporters Without Borders on its website. "But the detention of
Al-Jazeera's Sudanese cameraman, Sami Al-Haj, since 13 June 2002 at the
military base of Guantanamo and the murder of Chauncey Bailey in Oakland
in August mean the United States is still unable to join the lead
group.
"We are particularly disturbed by the
situation in Burma (164th). The military junta's crackdown on
demonstrations bodes ill for the future of basic freedoms in this
country."
"Eritrea deserves to be at the bottom," the
group said in a statement. "The privately owned press has been banished
by the authoritarian President Issaias Afeworki and the few journalists
who dare to criticize the regime are sent off to prison
camps.''
Four journalists that were imprisoned in
Eritrea, a smal African nation, have died in detention.
You can read more about Reporters Without
Borders, and their report, here.
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