[lbo-talk] Re: RSF on Press Freedom

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 10/8/06, Michael Givel <mgivel at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On the other hand, it is hard to fudge statistics of assassinations of
> journalists like just occurred in Russia.
>
> By the way, as I read the table on Worldwide Press Freedom by RSF indicating
> that the "United States In Iraq" was listed as: 137 out of 167  while Iraq
> was listed as: 157 out of 167, see:
> http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=554 Neither of these seem like
> a glowing testimony by RSF to freedom of press, regardless of funding
> sources.

It's not so much fudging of statistics as the fact that the ranking
makes no sense based on the numbers of deaths and detentions that RSF
lists, whether the numbers are regarded as absolute or relative to
population sizes.
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Yoshie
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