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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (19011)	3/11/2003 1:48:44 PM
From: Just_Observing	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

you've seen it happen twice and both examples you use are of countries known for democratic free press Not as well known as you think. Here is a very recent ranking of the Freedom of the press. Reporters Without Borders publishes the first worldwide press freedom index The first worldwide index of press freedom has some surprises for Western democracies. The United States ranks below Costa Rica and Italy scores lower than Benin. Rank Country Note 1 Finland 0,50 - Iceland 0,50 - Norway 0,50 - Netherlands 0,50 5 Canada 0,75 6 Ireland 1,00 7 Germany 1,50 - Portugal 1,50 - Sweden 1,50 10 Denmark 3,00 11 France 3,25 12 Australia 3,50 - Belgium 3,50 14 Slovenia 4,00 15 Costa Rica 4,25 - Switzerland 4,25 17 United States 4,75 18 Hong Kong 4,83 19 Greece 5,00 20 Ecuador 5,50 21 Benin 6,00 - United Kingdom 6,00 - Uruguay 6,00 you astound me US behind Costa Rica. And UK tied with Benin. This should astound you. When clueless, a fact can be very astonishing. I think you're flat out flagrantly biased sir It's easy to fulminate when you fumble your facts so flagrantly, oh foxy one. rsf.org