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how is it that australia is ‘white’???arent they censoring the internet now? Also, France should be ‘red’ too. This map is BS.
http://arst.ch/e0u that deserves white??? red at best. and if Australia is red, then italy and france should be black.
That map’s wrong. Venezuela should be in black
Judging by the obvious errors in this map it just goes to show that even at DU partisan propaganda rules the day.
What good is freedom of the press if you act like an arm of the New World Order?
Canada is white, but the US is not?
Any country that has a government agency that will go after people for publishing unpopular opinions, like the Canadian Human Rights Commission, does not have freedom of the press.
This map is crap.
The map us useful.
The range of censorship is what’s important and largely what one expects. Surprised and happy to Argentina, Chile in the “light colored” range.
Only amateurs would complain their favorite color was not used.
Try this link to the English version of the page
=> http://tinyurl.com/yj5eu9a
It also shows the scores on the doors which the French version doesn’t appear to do.
So, out of 175 places
Australia 16th
USA joint 20th with Luxemburg and the UK
France 43rd
Italy 49th
Venezuela 124th
Doesn’t seem quite so far away from reality to me. Although not actually living in or even visiting the countries does leave me at a disadvantage.
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#1, #2:
It’s a map of the Freedom of the Press, not the internet. The former isn’t particularly contingent on the latter, even these days.
#9 i completely disagree.
#6 Chile, I believe. But Argentina is borderline.
#7 Nope, still inaccurate to me. Honduras & Mexico have way more freedom of the press than venezuela yet they’re placed below it
The land of the brave and the not so free! US is however in good company with countries you won’t like to be compared to I think… France, Chile, Argentina, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Namibia, South Africa, New Guinea, Taiwan and Japan. Thank God there are still some white spots on that map. White spots unite against the colors!!!
It’s odd how comments reflect the view that freedom of the press is a purely governmental function. For example, Mexico and Venezuela. Without looking at the numbers I would bet good money that far more journalists have been murdered or fled from Mexico in the last 10 years than Venezuela. Both countries are appalling but being a journalist in Mexico is a very dangerous profession.
The US press is labeled as having a “satisfactory situation”? How can a press that is theoretically free, but is instead controlled by the corporatist fear of offending anyone in government, a government that can regulates them heavily in the area they are most concerned about, their wallets, be considered “satisfactory.” It’s as controlled as if there were explicit controls written in the law. As a result, the _mainstream_ US press is little more than a mouthpiece for the government.
This map is wrong, the US should be BLACK!
I wonder about the white countries. Australia with its censorship and the Netherlands with its persecution of Geert Wilders for sounding the warning cry about extremism in that country, and Canada with a Human Rights Commission that goes after magazines it disagrees with. The US is freer than those countries, but they are yellow.
Venezuela should be black because Hugo Chavez closes TV stations that disagree with him or who run programming other than his long boring speeches.
#12 Are you drunk or are you always that corny?
#13 And you’d be wrong. Add to dead journalists in venezuela some in prison, a lot of newspapers, radio (just in one day they seized 36 radio stations) & tv stations seized by the government, specially those that are journalism focused and those that are still open are forced into self-censorship, whenever there’s something going on that the government doesn’t want aired, the president goes into “chaining” all tv & radio stations (for hours sometimes, like in cuba) so you can see nothing but him and on and on.
#15 Cute, but stupid comment.
#16 Spot on!
USA should be orange – noticeable problems. If you watch the TV news you will notice problems with what is still the most popular way of getting news.
#16 Good observations.
Woohoo, anti-American propaganda.
Take a look at the “Press Freedom Index” article on Wikipedia to see a similar study with actual numbers. The authors of these things are clearly misleading the viewer by lumping the US and France in the same category as countries like Poland even though they are near the the top of the list.
The US scores a 4.00 for 2009 and falls into the satisfactory range. Canada scores a 3.75 and magically is in the good range.