World's Predators Give Finger to Press Freedom

Marking World Press Freedom Day, Reporters Without Borders issued its annual world index and launched a campaign showing how the 39 worst dictators “make a mockery of press freedom and their own people.” One of the most deadly years for journalists on record saw the same three leaders in media freedom: Finland, Netherlands, Norway. The three worst offenders were Turkmenistan, North Korea, Eritrea, with Syria right behind. More good, bad and intriguing news on a freedom that Thomas Jefferson insisted "cannot be limited without being lost."

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