Timeline for Why is the US ranked as #45 in Press Freedom ratings, despite its extremely permissive free speech laws?
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| Jun 22, 2021 at 19:19 | comment | added | RonJohn | @Fizz used to "send a message". Ugh... hey, everybody, let's completely ruin people's trust in global rankings by skewing ranking to "send a message" that will be ignored by one and all! | |
| Jun 22, 2021 at 9:29 | comment | added | Shadur-don't-feed-the-AI | @AHamilton Blocking requests or refusing to answer, while not particularly great, are not actually an impingement on freedom of the press - they were still perfectly allowed to write articles about how the administration was refusing to reveal important information. There's a significant difference between that and actively restraining the press and treating them hostilely with harassment and/or violence. | |
| Oct 30, 2020 at 15:39 | comment | added | dsollen | given the focus on trump in the linked quotes it would be nice to include what the rating was in the Obama era. That would give a sense of rather the issue was purely Trump, as the quotes imply, or if trump was just a comparatively minor additional issue to an already low(ish) rating. | |
| Jun 17, 2020 at 9:20 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 29, 2019 at 23:40 | comment | added | Philipp♦ | The discussion about the credibility of various US news networks was deleted because it escalated into personal insults. Please watch your language and remember our code of conduct. | |
| Mar 29, 2019 at 9:50 | comment | added | AHamilton | The actual questionnaire is located here: rsf.org/en/detailed-methodology It is sent only to journalists operating in that country and the questions contain a significant number of subjective questions rated on a scale of 1 to 10. I wasn't suggesting they were just making up the score, but they took an extremely difficult analytic task and did it horribly, by almost any measure. The question of how the US could be so low has been fully answered though, so having an additional answer to that effect isn't particularly helpful. | |
| Mar 29, 2019 at 8:49 | comment | added | tim | @AHamilton Their explanation focuses on Trumps incitement against the media, the resulting physical assaults, etc (in addition to pointing out that "the disappointing press freedom climate [...] predated his presidency"). But their methodology doesn't (it's based on a questionnaire that doesn't mention Trump but is about "pluralism, media independence, media environment and self-censorship, legislative framework, transparency, and the quality of the infrastructure", complimented with data of abuse of journalists). | |
| Mar 29, 2019 at 8:41 | comment | added | AHamilton | Ugh, I feel this information should be in your answer, but it's going to sound like a "Yeah, but what about Obama" post and I don't mean that. Their methodology focuses a fair bit on their feelings towards Trump, but it's worth mentioning that while we have the freedom of information act, how much an administration complies with that is extremely variable. The AP did a report that Obama spent a record 36 million blocking (or trying) requests, which would (should?) account for a lower score as well. www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/obama-administration-sets-new-record-withholding-foia-requests | |
| Mar 29, 2019 at 7:53 | comment | added | 264 champagne bottles on ice | Apparently the year-to-year changes in rankings are used to "send a message" based on very recent and often obscure issues. japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/25/national/… | |
| Mar 29, 2019 at 7:45 | comment | added | 264 champagne bottles on ice | I still think it's silly they ranked US on par with South Korea (#43) given the level of censorship in the latter. Interestingly they rank Japan even worse (#67) | |
| Mar 29, 2019 at 7:28 | history | answered | tim | CC BY-SA 4.0 |