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Journalists in the UK are less free to hold power to account than those working in South Africa, Chile or Lithuania, according to an index of press freedom around the world.
Laws permitting generalised surveillance, as well as a proposal for a new espionage act that could criminalise journalists and whistleblowers as spies, were cited by Reporters Without Borders as it knocked the UK down two places from last year, to 40th out of 180 countries in its World Press Freedom Index.
In the past five years, the UK has slipped 12 places down the index. Rebecca Vincent, RSF's UK bureau director, said this year's ranking would have been worse were it not for a general decline in press freedom around the world, making journalists in Britain comparatively better off than those in countries such as Turkey and Syria.
[...] Among the concerns raised by RSF was the passage of the UK's "menacing" Investigatory Powers Act last November, which met only token resistance within parliament, despite giving UK intelligence agencies and police the most sweeping surveillance powers in the western world.
RSF said the act was a possible "death sentence" for investigative journalism in Britain, owing to its lack of protections for whistleblowers, journalists and their sources, and that it set a damaging precedent for other countries to follow.
Source: The Guardian
(Score: 5, Informative) by its_gonna_be_yuge! on Friday April 28 2017, @09:20AM (4 children)
UK is 40 down the list, but the US is 43rd.
The best in North or South America seems to be Costa Rica at 6. Maybe it's time to move to Costa Rica.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 28 2017, @10:04AM (3 children)
Denmark (#4) and the Netherlands (#5) have island bits—Greenland, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba—in the Americas.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by its_gonna_be_yuge! on Friday April 28 2017, @10:26AM (2 children)
"Denmark (#4) and the Netherlands (#5) have island bits—Greenland, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba—in the Americas."
Heh. I've never thought of Greenland as being in the Americas, but maybe.
After all, Canada is in a spirited war with Denmark over Greenland (or a small part of it):
http://www.businessinsider.com/canada-and-denmark-whiskey-war-over-hans-island-2016-1 [businessinsider.com]
(Score: 2) by zocalo on Friday April 28 2017, @11:06AM (1 child)
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 2) by its_gonna_be_yuge! on Friday April 28 2017, @05:50PM
The OAS map excludes Greenland:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_of_American_States#/media/File:Organization_of_American_States_%28orthographic_projection%29.svg [wikipedia.org]
But as you say, that's political not geographical.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 28 2017, @11:05AM (1 child)
Considering the UK is the basis for 1984 I'm surprised they make it that high and the US being at 43 seems I don't know optimistic considering they don't have any non state news agencies
(Score: 4, Insightful) by butthurt on Friday April 28 2017, @11:52AM
The AP is owned by its contributing newspapers and radio and television stations in the United States [...]
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press [wikipedia.org]
UPI was purchased in May 2000 by News World Communications, a media conglomerate founded by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon, which also owned The Washington Times and various newspapers in South Korea, Japan, and South America.
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPI#Current_ownership [wikipedia.org]
Bloomberg News is an international news agency headquartered in New York, United States and a division of Bloomberg L.P.
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_News [wikipedia.org]
The Catholic News Agency (CNA) is a provider of news related to Catholicism to an English speaking audience worldwide. It is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Its editor-in-chief is Peruvian journalist Alejandro Bermudez. It is owned by EWTN.
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_News_Agency [wikipedia.org]
Catholic News Service (CNS) is an American news agency [...It] is editorially independent and a financially self-sustaining division of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops [...]
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_News_Service [wikipedia.org]
Religion News Service (RNS) is a news agency covering religion, ethics, spirituality and moral issues. [...] In 2011, RNS was sold to the Religion Newswriters Foundation, a non-profit affiliate of the Religion Newswriters Association. RNS is owned by Religion News LLC, a non-profit, limited liability corporation based at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_News_Service [wikipedia.org]
The Conservative News Agency of New York (CNA-NY) is a non-profit organization. It operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association. CNA-NY is run and managed by its contributing journalists in the United States, Canada, Europe and the Middle East, with a focus on third world issues in its early phase.
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_News_Agency_of_New_York_%28CNA-NY%29 [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 3, Funny) by TheRaven on Friday April 28 2017, @11:11AM (3 children)
sudo mod me up
(Score: 3, Insightful) by zocalo on Friday April 28 2017, @11:38AM (2 children)
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 28 2017, @06:39PM (1 child)
Nonsense. The policies are clear.
“Brexit means Brexit”
"Get on with it"
"Take our country back"
"Make a success of it"
Why do you hate Britain so much?
(Score: 2) by zocalo on Friday April 28 2017, @10:22PM
Hence my conclusion: Whoever wins the next general election - which is presumably going to be the Conservatives under Theresa May - should be in power until 2022. 2022-2019 = 3 years, during which time the Conservatives under May will be able to pass any legislation they (and Theresa May in particular) can get through the Houses of Commons and Lords. I don't hate Britain at all, it's what the Conservatives (and Theresa May in particular) are almost certainly going to *do* to it that's concerning me.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 4, Interesting) by kaszz on Friday April 28 2017, @11:59AM
If the only journalists that will remain are those that run their work like an intelligence operation. Well then that is what the natural selection will produce. Just like drug resistant bacteria is what such use encourage. And when they are at that level the journalists will have even less self restraint on publishing regardless of any consequences, because they have already protected themselves.
The end result is likely that of less considerate mutual respect and lot of collateral and unnecessary damage. Nature and truth always get their way, usually only the cost and time varies.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by linkdude64 on Friday April 28 2017, @02:52PM (5 children)
Sweden #2?
From preventing the press from reporting "ethnic" names of suspects for rapes, beheadings, honor killings, etc. and then not allowing their mugshots to be shown on television, then actually giving them false Swedish names, I find it hard to believe that Sweden is in fact the most "Free" to report on their very real issues. A chief of police is under investigation for racism for stating that the majority of violent crimes that have "coincidentally" spiked along with refugee populations are, in fact, committed by refugees.
Here's a video: A VICE journalist is ushered out of a refugee-dense "No Go Zone" by the fucking Police, because they noticed people were putting on masks in response to seeing the cameras, and reporters there are at risk for being physically attacked by "peaceful" migrants, which is then likely to kick off a riot, because the refugees are offended that they could ever be portrayed as violent by the evil white racists. Behead those who say Islam is violent, and all that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODw7o34Vdbk [youtube.com]
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 28 2017, @04:45PM (1 child)
Lol, that is the least interesting video I've ever seen with zero evidence of anything except for the police van driving behind them which was claimed to be a coincidence. This following a riot just days before, seriously this is a non-news video that does nothing to advance your narrative.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 28 2017, @06:05PM
Of course, a police van coincidentally matching their pace and direction with a group of pedestrians they just had a run-in with for several minutes is something that happens all the time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 28 2017, @05:45PM
Freedom of the press is measured by the ability of the press to speak free of repercussions other than the attention or lack thereof attracted by their message. Government transparency is completely orthogonal issue, keeping secrets does in no way prevent the press from speaking.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 28 2017, @07:57PM (1 child)
Forgive me for being dense, but this comes across to me as not much different from some things I was reading about the "weather war" last night. I love me a good conspiracy theory.
Anyway, can you provide anything that would corroborate your claims in regards to the press deviating from their normal crime reporting and in regards to a police chief being under investigation solely because of a statement he made based on the fact that were available to him at the time?
If I were prepared to reject your claims out of hand, I wouldn't have asked, since what you're saying is pretty boring compared to many of the really good conspiracy theories out there. At a minimum, we'd need to involve the anunnaki before it'd make a decently entertaining conspiracy theory.
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Saturday April 29 2017, @12:02PM
https://www.rt.com/news/376582-sweden-cop-immigrant-crime/ [rt.com]
Sweden rarely even reports the rapes which have now become so ordinary.
Here's another good resource to consider.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_grenade_attacks_in_Sweden [wikipedia.org]
The coverups began years ago, and are not continuously reported on. I can't find those older stories about the coverups initially happening because there are so many NEW stories about coverups happening.