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Survey: U.S. press freedom plunges under Obama to 46th in world, after Romania


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The Washington Times
Tuesday, February 11, 2014




The Obama administration’s handling of whistleblower Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency leaks and the investigation of a string of leaks produced a plunge in the country’s rating on press freedoms and government openness, according to a global survey released Tuesday.
The U.S. under President Obama, who once promised to run the “most transparent” administration in the country’s history, fell from 32nd to 46th in the 2014 World Press Freedom Index, a drop of 13 slots. The index, compiled by the press advocacy group Reporters Without Borders, analyzes 180 countries on criteria such as official abuse, media independence and infrastructure to determine how free journalists are to report.
Officials of the group said press freedoms were under attack around the world as governments grow increasingly sophisticated in collecting sensitive data and in tracking down those who leak it.
“Journalists are being caught up in what is, I think, fairly characterized as a rapidly growing surveillance apparatus, and this is happening all over the world,” said Geoffrey King, Internet advocacy coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists.
In the past years, tactics have shifted from surveillance of individual terrorists and spies to a dragnet approach to control information, Mr. King said.
Delphine Halgand, Reporters Without Borders U.S. director, said three events shaped the climate for reporting in the United States last year: Mr. Snowden’s NSA revelations, the trial of Army Pvt. Bradley Manning for giving a trove of classified documents to WikiLeaks, and the Justice Department’s handling of a probe of The Associated Press and other media organizations suspected of receiving leaked data.
“I hope this revelation will play a wake-up-call role,” Ms. Halgand said.
As a whole, the index’s annual global indicator, or barometer of violations of freedom of information, rose 1.8 percent compared with 2012.
The report found that areas with armed conflict correlate with a low level of freedom of the press. Syria ranked among the worst countries for allowing freedom of the press, alongside authoritarian states such as Turkmenistan, North Korea and Eritrea.
From March 2011 to December 2013, 130 professional and citizen journalists were killed in Syria with connections to distributing news and information. Syria has been dubbed as the world’s most dangerous place for journalists.
Syria has moved into the worst of the worst,” said Karin Deutsch Karlekar, Freedom of the Press project director.
Middle East repression
Despite the hopes of the Arab Spring, countries in the Middle East continued to score poorly in the press freedom rankings. The Committee to Protect Journalists reported that Turkey imprisoned 40 journalists and Iran imprisoned 35 last year.
“Those regimes are systematically hunting down information and those that report and distribute information, and those primarily are journalists,” said Sherif Mansour, the committee’s Middle East and North Africa program coordinator.
In August, Egyptian officials arrested John Greyson, a Canadian filmmaker, along with Canadian doctor Tarek Loubani, in Cairo after protests against the government. Mr. Greyson recalled sharing a cell with dozens of men and sleeping on the ground with cockroaches.
“We were riding in a state of shock,” he said.
The Canadian government attained their release after seven weeks. Now, Mr. Greyson campaigns for the government to do the same for Mohamed Fahmy, a Canadian-Egyptian journalist who has been imprisoned for more than a month in Cairo.
Several other journalists are also in custody.
“The world is watching, and we’re trying to make as much noise as we can,” Mr. Greyson said.
Ms. Halgand said a theme emerging in this year’s survey is the rise of private nonstate groups posing threats to journalists, what she called a “privatization of violence.” Latin American journalists, for example, have experienced threats from organized crime groups.
Countries falling the furthest from the previous year’s survey included the civil-war-wracked Central African Republic (down 43 spots to 109), Guatemala (down 29 spots) and Kenya (down 18 slots). Four journalists were killed in Guatemala last year alone.
Other countries have risen on the index after declining rates of violence against journalists, censorship and misuse of judicial proceedings. These include Panama (up 25 positions to No. 87), the Dominican Republic (up 13 slots) and Ecuador (gaining 25 positions).
“They are not perfectly safe at all, but we saw some improvement,” Ms. Halgand said.
Finland, the Netherlands and Norway continue to hold the top three spots on the index, and European countries hold the top 16 spots in the 180-nation survey.
But not all European countries registered progress in press freedoms. Ratings for Greece and Hungary fell because of economic crises and increases in nationalistic populism.
“It’s definitely a case that we need continued vigilance on the issues on media freedom and freedom of expression,” Ms. Karlekar said.


 

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Every horrible thing the left accused Bush of doing the Kenyan Usurper has done and then some.

His entire 'presidency' has been like living in the twilight zone.

Unreal.
 

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Pretty weak calculation method. The press says anything they want. What the government was doing was trying to conceal leaked classified documents. Not really preventing the freedom of the press, more to prevent them from leaking information that our country wants to keep classified. But to say we lack freedom of press, that's just hilarious.

If it wasn't for the traitors Snowden and Manning, the governments actions wouldn't have been necessary.
 

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Pretty weak calculation method. The press says anything they want. What the government was doing was trying to conceal leaked classified documents. Not really preventing the freedom of the press, more to prevent them from leaking information that our country wants to keep classified. But to say we lack freedom of press, that's just hilarious.

If it wasn't for the traitors Snowden and Manning, the governments actions wouldn't have been necessary.

But we're supposedly members of a cult, in some sick minds around here. How could we disagree so severely on Snowden? w-thumbs!^. Cult members never disagree. :dancefool. Maybe these idiots see what free thinking is all about.
 

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But we're supposedly members of a cult, in some sick minds around here. How could we disagree so severely on Snowden? w-thumbs!^. Cult members never disagree. :dancefool. Maybe these idiots see what free thinking is all about.

I'd banish you from the cult but I have no clue what cult I belong to, lol. I think one of the greatest strengths of the Republicans is they are so unified. They have one thought process, they will care about whatever their cult leaders tell them to care about. I mean Obama has had problems because he has to battle the unified cult and then battle the free thinkers in his own party. His stock sank amidst a lot of Dems over the Snowden leaks. I personally think completely different about the situation, but we'll leave that to another discussion, haha.
 

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  1. there are those that will vote GOP no matter what - CULT
  2. the are those that will vote Democrat no matter what - CULT
  3. Independents always decide the elections

which one are you? be honest (if only to yourself)

Do you always look away from your party's lies and blame the other guy? if yes, you might be part of a cult.

Do you always post article when a politician, from the party you oppose, gets in legal trouble but never when a politician from your party gets in trouble? if yes, you might be part of a cult.

Do you hold your guy to a lower standard than the opposition? if yes, you might be part of a cult.

Do you supports Barrack Obama? if yes, you might be part of a cult.

Do you already have your Vote for Hilary 2016 bumper sticker and or lawn signs? if yes, you might be part of a cult.

 

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  1. there are those that will vote GOP no matter what - CULT
  2. the are those that will vote Democrat no matter what - CULT
  3. Independents always decide the elections

which one are you? be honest (if only to yourself)

Do you always look away from your party's lies and blame the other guy? if yes, you might be part of a cult.

Do you always post article when a politician, from the party you oppose, gets in legal trouble but never when a politician from your party gets in trouble? if yes, you might be part of a cult.

Do you hold your guy to a lower standard than the opposition? if yes, you might be part of a cult.

Do you supports Barrack Obama? if yes, you might be part of a cult.

Do you already have your Vote for Hilary 2016 bumper sticker and or lawn signs? if yes, you might be part of a cult.

Please tell me you are not a Libertarian
 

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  1. there are those that will vote GOP no matter what - CULT
  2. the are those that will vote Democrat no matter what - CULT
  3. Independents always decide the elections

which one are you? be honest (if only to yourself)

Do you always look away from your party's lies and blame the other guy? if yes, you might be part of a cult.

Do you always post article when a politician, from the party you oppose, gets in legal trouble but never when a politician from your party gets in trouble? if yes, you might be part of a cult.

Do you hold your guy to a lower standard than the opposition? if yes, you might be part of a cult.


Do you supports Barrack Obama? if yes, you might be part of a cult.

Do you already have your Vote for Hilary 2016 bumper sticker and or lawn signs? if yes, you might be part of a cult.


The bolded part was spot on. Then you blew it with your last 2. People who voted for Obama and/or support Obama fall under many different categories. Some support him/voted for him because they blindly believe, some support him because he's better than the alternative, and had little choice in 2012, after a mediocre 1st term. Same with those who may vote for Hillary. Under no circumstances will I vote for Hillary, but I'm hoping the GOP can give me a viable alternative, or else I'll have to vote 3rd party, which I've done more often than not.
 

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The bolded part was spot on. Then you blew it with your last 2. People who voted for Obama and/or support Obama fall under many different categories. Some support him/voted for him because they blindly believe, some support him because he's better than the alternative, and had little choice in 2012, after a mediocre 1st term. Same with those who may vote for Hillary. Under no circumstances will I vote for Hillary, but I'm hoping the GOP can give me a viable alternative, or else I'll have to vote 3rd party, which I've done more often than not.

ok I will modify .... Do you supports Barrack Obama? if yes, you might be part of a cult. to ......Do you supported Barrack Obama for a second term and continue to today? if yes, you might be part of a cult.

The rest sounds right to me
 

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Please tell me you are not a Libertarian

I would consider myself open minded. One that believes in helping the needy but not the clueless. I believe decade long nation building is idiotic. I believe in the privacy for citizens. I believe government should be accountable to the people they represent. 17+ trillion debt is insane. I believe less government is always better. I believe in accountable government which lives within its means. I believe promises should be kept and liars should be recalled and booted out on the asses. I believe election campaigns should be limited to a max 1 million dollars not the hundreds of millions they spend now. I believe Bush wasn't very good but Obama is 100X worse.

Other than a person with common sense, what does that make me?
 

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I would consider myself open minded. One that believes in helping the needy but not the clueless. I believe decade long nation building is idiotic. I believe in the privacy for citizens. I believe government should be accountable to the people they represent. 17+ trillion debt is insane. I believe less government is always better. I believe in accountable government which lives within its means. I believe promises should be kept and liars should be recalled and booted out on the asses. I believe election campaigns should be limited to a max 1 million dollars not the hundreds of millions they spend now. I believe Bush wasn't very good but Obama is 100X worse.

Other than a person with common sense, what does that make me?

Knew it, you have Libertarian written all over you. Probably a gold bug and a Ron Paul fan. What you said does not make you a person of common sense. You might think it does, but it really doesn't. It's misguided "sense".
 

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Knew it, you have Libertarian written all over you. Probably a gold bug and a Ron Paul fan. What you said does not make you a person of common sense. You might think it does, but it really doesn't. It's misguided "sense".

nice try ak. You either have common sense or you don't. For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.

is there anything I mentioned in my last post the you vehemently disagree with?
 
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nice try ak. You either have common sense or you don't. For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.

is there anything I mentioned in my last post the you vehemently disagree with?

I agree you made some valid points but Obama 100 x worse than Bush, that lost it for me
 

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nice try ak. You either have common sense or you don't. For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.

is there anything I mentioned in my last post the you vehemently disagree with?

17+ trillion debt is insane.
I believe less government is always better.
I believe in accountable government which lives within its means.
I believe Bush wasn't very good but Obama is 100X worse.

All of these I vehemently disagree with. It's not "common sense" to think $17 trillion debt is insane. It's simply conjecture.
 

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I agree you made some valid points but Obama 100 x worse than Bush, that lost it for me

ok 90X then. I hoped Barrack would be good back in 2008 and I gave him a chance but it didn't take long to see what a fraud he is. How anyone re-elected incompetence in 2012 is beyond me. Last thing I will say, some of my die-hard liberal friends have said things like ... "I didn't think it was possible anyone could be worse than Bush but I was wrong". That speaks volumes to me.
 

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17+ trillion debt is insane.
I believe less government is always better.
I believe in accountable government which lives within its means.
I believe Bush wasn't very good but Obama is 100X worse.

All of these I vehemently disagree with. It's not "common sense" to think $17 trillion debt is insane. It's simply conjecture.

we will just have to agree to disagree.
 

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The entire US Political system nowadays is nothing but a sham. Doesn't matter who you vote for, its the same shit.

They only think for themselves, and what they can do to benefit themselves.

Its all about the $$$....

Why is it only the RICH win elections???

Why is it someone spends/invests MILLIONS to win a job that pays a miniscule amount to what they spent to win?
 

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