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In honor of Friday’s World Press Freedom Day, the non-governmental organization Reporters sans frontières (Reporters Without Borders) launched a campaign depicting world-famous dictators giving everyone the finger, or the international equivalent thereof.
Agence France Press interviewed the group’s leader, Christophe Deloire, who said that that they want to show how these “predators against press freedom” — the 39 worst according to the group’s own accounting — “make a mockery of press freedom and their own people.”
The group’s analysis of press freedom around the world lists some well known dictators as among the worst: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, Russian President Vladimir Putin and the new Chinese President Xi Jinping, but it also lists the United States’ press freedoms as only in a “satisfactory situation.” (By comparison, Canada’s press freedom is graded as a “good situation.”)
In 1991, the United Nations established World Press Freedom Day, which “serves as an occasion to inform citizens of violations of press freedom – a reminder that in dozens of countries around the world, publications are censored, fined, suspended and closed down, while journalists, editors and publishers are harassed, attacked, detained and even murdered.”
Agence France Press interviewed the group’s leader, Christophe Deloire, who said that that they want to show how these “predators against press freedom” — the 39 worst according to the group’s own accounting — “make a mockery of press freedom and their own people.”
The group’s analysis of press freedom around the world lists some well known dictators as among the worst: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, Russian President Vladimir Putin and the new Chinese President Xi Jinping, but it also lists the United States’ press freedoms as only in a “satisfactory situation.” (By comparison, Canada’s press freedom is graded as a “good situation.”)
In 1991, the United Nations established World Press Freedom Day, which “serves as an occasion to inform citizens of violations of press freedom – a reminder that in dozens of countries around the world, publications are censored, fined, suspended and closed down, while journalists, editors and publishers are harassed, attacked, detained and even murdered.”
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REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS, FOR FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
http://en.rsf.org/who-we-are-12-09-2012,32617.html
http://en.rsf.org/who-we-are-12-09-2012,32617.html
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JOURNALISTS INCREASINGLY FRUSTRATED WITH GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION
A classified cable from the US embassy in Singapore on 16 January 2009, which WikiLeaks released on 30 August, reports that the younger generation of Singaporean journalists are “increasingly frustrated” with the curbs on domestic reporting imposed by the government. Young reporters are becoming impatient with their older editors, who have long been used to toeing the government line, the cable said. Ministers often call editors to check what they are publishing and there is a growing tendency on the part of reporters to censor themselves. More or more young journalists are moving abroad in order to be able to report more freely, the cable added.
A classified cable from the US embassy in Singapore on 16 January 2009, which WikiLeaks released on 30 August, reports that the younger generation of Singaporean journalists are “increasingly frustrated” with the curbs on domestic reporting imposed by the government. Young reporters are becoming impatient with their older editors, who have long been used to toeing the government line, the cable said. Ministers often call editors to check what they are publishing and there is a growing tendency on the part of reporters to censor themselves. More or more young journalists are moving abroad in order to be able to report more freely, the cable added.
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