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WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts) Sun Feb 16, 2014, 07:09 PM Feb 2014

TYT: Press Freedom Ranking - Last Year We Were 32nd, Now It's Far Worse

"The United States plunged 14 places in the annual Press Freedom Index released by Reporters Without Borders on Wednesday. The group said it was "one of the most significant declines" in press freedom it had tracked during 2013.

The US in now ranked 46th on the RWB list, in between Romania and Haiti. It was ranked 32nd in the 2013 index. (Finland tops the entire list.)

The press freedom group was blunt in its explanation. It cited increased efforts to track down whistleblowers and the sources of leaks, mentioning Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden in particular. It also condemned the Justice Department's surveillance of reporters, and the continued leak battle facing New York Times journalist James Risen."* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

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TYT: Press Freedom Ranking - Last Year We Were 32nd, Now It's Far Worse (Original Post) WhoIsNumberNone Feb 2014 OP

Where is all the screaming and yelling? Larry Ogg Feb 2014 #1

Yes but it could be worse. zeemike Feb 2014 #2

No buts, it is very frustrating. Malteil Feb 2014 #4

The whole purpose of bad cop is to make good cop acceptable. zeemike Feb 2014 #5

+1! That is lost on so many. Enthusiast Feb 2014 #6

This message was self-deleted by its author Malteil Feb 2014 #3

Larry Ogg

(1,474 posts)

1. Where is all the screaming and yelling?

Reply to WhoIsNumberNone (Original post)

Sun Feb 16, 2014, 09:06 PM

Feb 2014

Oh yea, there's a democrat rock star in the White House so everything is cool and we can all chill.

zeemike

(18,998 posts)

2. Yes but it could be worse.

Reply to Larry Ogg (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 17, 2014, 12:44 AM

Feb 2014

If bad cop was elected...

Malteil

(58 posts)

4. No buts, it is very frustrating.

Reply to zeemike (Reply #2)

Mon Feb 17, 2014, 03:04 PM

Feb 2014

Why can’t people here seem to be able to hold Obama up to the same standards as we did Bush Jr. Every time it’s “We could have had worse.” If Bush had passed the NDAA of 2012 or Obama’s draconian us of the Espionage Act of 1917, ten times in history, seven of those under Obama people would be complaining. How about trying to push TPP through congress and his defending of the NSA instead of making any statement condemning them for breaching their charter as examples of things we all would have been howling about under Bush. I understand the argument that his party was unwilling to support single payer and thus the ACA but that doesn’t explain nor excuse any number of items that Obama has supported. I voted for him twice, in a state where he had no chance of winning but I still voted. I voted for him because the other option was unconscionable. Because he is our guy, that is the reason we have to hold him up to a higher standard. Not “We could have had worse.”

zeemike

(18,998 posts)

5. The whole purpose of bad cop is to make good cop acceptable.

Reply to Malteil (Reply #4)

Mon Feb 17, 2014, 03:23 PM

Feb 2014

That is how the game is played...it is also known as triangulation...
At some point I hope people will get tired of being triangulated out of our democracy and want to change it...and some here are, and more are waking up to it every day.

Enthusiast

(50,983 posts)

6. +1! That is lost on so many.

Reply to zeemike (Reply #5)

Mon Feb 17, 2014, 07:54 PM

Feb 2014

The ruse continues.

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