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We’re number one! We’re number one! We’re number…fifty-three?
The organization Reporters without Borders has released its 2006 rankings of its Worldwide Press Freedom Index, which attempts to measure the state of press freedom throughout the world (in tasty list form!). The first such index was put out in 2002, and the U.S. then came in at the seventeen spot. Last year, we were down to 44, and now we’ve dropped another nine to a four-way tie for fifty-third with Botswana, Croatia and Tonga. So, uhm, huzzah for us.
As the report accompanying the Index notes, “the steady erosion of press freedom in the United States, France and Japan is extremely alarming.” Well, at least we’re not the only ones - thanks for keeping us company France and Japan!
