USA now ranked 49th in press freedom

Tuesday, March 17, 2015
By Paul Martin

by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Press freedom took a major hit last year, according to the 2015 World Press Freedom Index, a measurement of the state of journalism put together annually by the group Reporters Without Borders.

Because of a rise in warfare, growing threats from non-state actors, worsening economies and violence during demonstrations, freedom in media is retreating on all of the world’s continents, reports Zero Hedge. In fact, there was a major decline in press freedom between 2013 and 2014; two-thirds of the 180 countries surveyed for the latest press freedom index lost important ground from the previous year.

The financial analysis site further noted:

The annual global indicator, which measures the overall level of violations of freedom of information in 180 countries year by year, has risen to 3,719, an 8 percent increase over 2014 and almost 10 percent compared with 2013.

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