" Mexico can no longer be considered to have a free press because of the threats and violence associated with drug trafficking, but an eight-year decline in press freedom around the world appears to have begun leveling off in 2010, an independent advocacy group reported.
In its annual accounting of press freedoms, Freedom House said the Middle East and North Africa showed a dramatic deterioration in those freedoms in 2010. The assessment of 196 countries and territories will be released Monday.
Among the results: Egypt was downgraded to "not free," while Libya, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Tunisia continued to rank among the worst countries in the world for media independence and press freedom. Only Saudi Arabia, among those five countries, was not swept early this year by uprisings and appeals for freedom."
What would go through your head if we replaced Mexico with the Good Ol' US of A. If we loose one God given right under the constitution. How easy would it be to loose the rest? How you react if your right to free speech was revoked? Would you take up arms, protest, write you congress man or maybe just sit down and cry. Hopefully it will never happen here. Remember that NO ONE in America is above the constitution.
I wouldnt write my congress man....Arent they the ones takin our freedom away. I think I would move to Canada...
ReplyDeleteI'm not afraid of us losing our free press. Being a First Amendment right, it pretty much is invulnerable to "attack". If we did lose control of major news sources, we live a digital age where anyone can say anything with ease. Consider the attacks in Libya, for instance. 20 years ago we would not have had the information stream we do, and they would not have been able to rally together as easily as they did without the use of tech like Twitter and cellphones.
ReplyDelete@flea good point. Internet has changed alot for opinion spreading and information gathering.
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