[lbo-talk] Re: Reporter's death fuels fear for Russia media freedom

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 10/9/06, Michael Givel <mgivel at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Ohhhh...now I see--they are unduly picking on the "progressive people's
> republic of Iran." Besides the murder of journalists could it possibly be
> that their 50 question survey looked at other factors like independence from
> government control and other questions? What do you think?

On the score of government control, too, the ranking doesn't make
sense.  Do you really think that the press is freer in Libya, Tunisia,
and Saudi Arabia, just to take a few examples, than in Iran?
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Yoshie
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