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After journalist arrests at Occupy Wall Street, US drops 27 spots on global press freedom index. Now ranked 47th in the world.
List of countries ahead of US on the Reporters Without Borders global press freedom index:
Finland, Norway, Estonia, Netherlands, Austria, Iceland, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Cape Verde, Canada, Denmark, Sweden, New Zealand, Czech Republic, Ireland, Cyprus, Jamaica, Germany, Costa Rica, Belgium, Namibia, Japan, Surinam, Poland, Mali, OECS, Slovakia, United Kingdom, Niger, Australia, Lithuania, Uruguay, Portugal, Tanzania, Papua New Guinea, Slovenia, El Salvador, France, Spain, Hungary, Ghana, South Africa, Botswana, South Korea, Comoros, Taiwan…
Then the United States of America at #47.
Source: Reporters Without Borders global press freedom index, released today.
The U.S. falls on the Global Press Freedom Index thanks in part to Occupy. Fascinating.
(via shortformblog)
Mexico Now 2011's Deadliest Media Environment
Mexico’s drug war has killed over 35,000 with violence spread throughout the country.
Last week, the bodies of Ana Marcela Yarce Viveros, founder of the political magazine Contralinea, and Rocio González Trapaga, a freelance reporter, were found just outside of Mexico City.
The murders bring the media death toll in that country to 10 this year. Yes, small numbers compared to the overall total but significant in that it makes Mexico the deadliest country in the world for journalists.
Via the Guardian:
Two female journalists were found dead on Thursday in a Mexico City park. They were naked, with their hands and feet bound, and it appears that they were strangled…
…Their killings follow a pattern of murders by organised crime gangs and drug cartels. But they are the first such killings of media workers in the nation’s capital city.
(Source: futurejournalismproject)
