Only after being shamed by criticisms did RSF do anything about some of the journalists for whose conditions Washington is clearly responsible: e.g.,
<blockquote><http://www.voltairenet.org/article135300.html> Reporters without Borders Keeps silence about journalist tortured in Guantánamo by Salim Lamrani*
The silence kept by the «freedom-of-the-press» Reporters without border (RSF) organization about Sudanese journalist Sami al Hajj raises many questions on the impartiality of that association headed by Robert Menard. RSF, which is always willing to stigmatize- usually arbitrarily- those countries targeted by Washington such as Cuba, Venezuela and China, has fully ignored the torture suffered by Al Hajj, a journalist with Qatar's Al Jazeera TV chain [3].</blockquote>
<blockquote><http://www.voltairenet.org/article136229.html> Blatant Facts
Caught in the act: a revealing image, a stunning fact or an outstanding statement.
Better late than never!
On Monday, February 13, 2006, the association of Reporters without Borders (RWB) ("Quand Reporters Sans Frontières couvre la CIA", by Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire, April 25, 2005), and ("The lies of Reporters without Borders]", by Salim Lamrani, Voltaire, September 2, 2005."), officially requested the release of the Sudanese journalist Sami Al Haj, cameraman of the Arab information network Al-Jazeera. Sami Al Haj, arrested by the United States since December 2001, is still in jail at the US Guantánamo base. The Qatari TV network echoed the RWB's request in an editorial published on February 15 in its Internet website ("صحفيون بلا حدود تطالب واشنطن بالإفراج عن سامي الحاج", Al Jazeera, February 15, 2006.). </blockquote>
We've already discussed RSF's anti-Cuban funding source. In addition, RSF has been criticized for its bias in reporting (or not reporting) on Haiti and Venezuela (at <http://www.counterpunch.org/barahona08012006.html>), among other things.
Here's another interesting funding source:
"In spite of 14 months of stonewalling by the National Endowment for Democracy over a Freedom of Information Act request and a flat denial from RSF executive director Lucie Morillon, the NED has revealed that Reporters Without Borders received grants over at least three years from the International Republican Institute" (at <http://www.counterpunch.org/barahona08012006.html>). -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>