More Political News

Posted by jared on October 24, 2006
Politics

I was browsing /., as I’ve been known to do, and noticed this story. It’s about how the US has dropped in the “Freedom of the Press Rating”. It’s pretty sad really. We were 17th in 2002, the first year they did it (I’m curious what we would have been around 98-99, during the end of the Clinton administration..).

Now we’ve dropped all the way to 53rd, primarily as a result of Bush attacking people who don’t share his pro-war viewpoint. It’s also because the federal government has refused to respect the right of a journalist to protect the anonymity of his sources. Freedom of the press is something we like to pimp when we’re “spreading democracy”, but apparently we don’t live up to the hype.

5 Comments to More Political News

kyle
October 24, 2006

obama for president, know what im sayin’?

nick
October 24, 2006

Obama would rock as president!

jared
October 25, 2006

to be honest, i dont’ know much about obama.

scott
October 26, 2006

I’d take Obama over Hilary any day.

jared
October 27, 2006

as big a fan as i was of bill, i don’t like hillary. admittedly, i’m not that familiar with her entire platform. what i do know, though, is that she spends *way* too much time bitching about videogames and how they’re destroying society. first of all, theyr’e not–that’s ludicrous. secondly, you should have bigger things to worry about than that.

of course, that’s also the opinion i have about things like gay marriage. i’m sick of my government spending time and money on things that should be non-issues.

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