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

[Michael Givel]

Here is the rationale from their perspective 
http://www.rsf.org/IMG/pdf/CM_2005_Me_Eng.pdf--major jail time for for 
several journalists considered an enemy of the Iranian state. No independent 
press freedom in the same report was the rationale for the ranking of Saudi 
Arabia and Libya and tightening of press freedom was cited for Tunisa.

[lbo-talk] Re: Reporter's death fuels fear for Russia media freedom
Yoshie Furuhashi critical.montages at gmail.com Mon Oct 9 18:41:04 PDT
2006

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? -- Yoshie