American Press Freedom in Jeopardy

Sweeping protests around the world made it an extremely difficult year for the media, and tested journalists as never before, the annual report into press freedom reveals.

The annual report by Reporters Without Borders has been released, showing the United States fell 27 points on the list due to the many arrests of journalists covering Occupy Wall Street protests.

The slide in the United States places it just behind Comoros and Taiwan in a group with Argentina and Romania.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2091948/U-S-falls-47th-press-freedom-rankings-Occupy-crackdown.html#ixzz1kwkrinb6

 

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Author: stevekuusisto

Poet, Essayist, Blogger, Journalist, Memoirist, Disability Rights Advocate, Public Speaker, Professor, Syracuse University

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  1. Steve I was refer­ring to peo­ple being mis­guided to epexct open­ness on the part of any indi­vid­ual twit­terer (or other SN par­tic­i­pant), rather than open­ness from a cor­po­ra­tion (that’s crazy talk, even if they are using SN).

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