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NJ5 said:

Kasz216 said:

A Random list is fine for press freedom.... but where's the criteria? The laws on the books in the US are more favorable then most other countries... with the US' Freedom of Press going farther.

If anything it looks like they are judging total arrests in such. In which the US Is going to be farther, because the US rights of press go farther.

In the US someone was thrown in jail for publishing data without giving their sources in a criminal hearing of leaked government documents.

In the UK someone would be thrown in jail for publishing leaked government documents.

Other arguements. Guy in Guantamo who is also a journalist etc.

There ranking has little to do with actual freedom and more to do with journalists in jail... or killed for no reason.

One of the things included in this ranking.

"A journalist killed

Chauncey Bailey, editor of the weekly Oakland Post and a well-known leader of the local black community, was shot dead in the street in Oakland on 2 August. A 19-year-old employee of Your Black Muslim Bakery confessed to carrying out the murder and then retracted. He could be tried in 2008."

What does that have to do with anything?

 

I'm sure there are many problems with that and any other list, I was just looking for Timmah to back up his assertion that press freedom is better in USA than Europe. I still don't see any evidence to back that up.

BTW, what laws on books are you talking about?

 

I already named a couple.  The Racial and Religious Hatred act, and the fact that you can't publish illegally leaked documents by the government.