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randys1

(16,286 posts) Wed Feb 18, 2015, 07:06 PM Feb 2015

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Is USA free when it comes to the press or information? 2014 World Press Freedom Index

http://rsf.org/index2014/en-index2014.php

Where do we fall in the stats?

Can you guess?

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Is USA free when it comes to the press or information? 2014 World Press Freedom Index (Original Post) randys1 Feb 2015 OP

hint: we're worse than Botswana but ahead of haiti samsingh Feb 2015 #1

I have not looked yet...ummm 18th ? BlueJazz Feb 2015 #2

We're number 46! We're number 46! USA! USA! Kip Humphrey Feb 2015 #3

Yep...and let me be the first to admit that Obama has been crap when it comes randys1 Feb 2015 #4

We're 46th but will probably overtake Haiti (47) in a matter of weeks. Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2015 #5

samsingh

(17,599 posts)

1. hint: we're worse than Botswana but ahead of haiti

Reply to randys1 (Original post)

Wed Feb 18, 2015, 07:11 PM

Feb 2015

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)

2. I have not looked yet...ummm 18th ?

Reply to randys1 (Original post)

Wed Feb 18, 2015, 07:37 PM

Feb 2015

On Edit: What! 46th? Sweet Jesus. That's sick and sad.

Kip Humphrey

(4,753 posts)

3. We're number 46! We're number 46! USA! USA!

Reply to randys1 (Original post)

Wed Feb 18, 2015, 07:41 PM

Feb 2015

randys1

(16,286 posts)

4. Yep...and let me be the first to admit that Obama has been crap when it comes

Reply to Kip Humphrey (Reply #3)

Wed Feb 18, 2015, 07:43 PM

Feb 2015

to the whistle blower thing and he has probably not been good on the whole freedom of the press thing

For reasons I do NOT understand

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)

5. We're 46th but will probably overtake Haiti (47) in a matter of weeks.

Reply to randys1 (Original post)

Wed Feb 18, 2015, 07:48 PM

Feb 2015

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