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Which will be the USA Press Freedom Index 2012-2013 Rank?
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“Crackdown was the word of the year in 2011. Never has freedom of information been so closely associated with democracy. Never have journalists, through their reporting, vexed the enemies of freedom so much. Never have acts of censorship and physical attacks on journalists seemed so numerous. The equation is simple: the absence or suppression of civil liberties leads necessarily to the suppression of media freedom.
Led by President Yoweri Museveni, Uganda (139th) launched an unprecedented crackdown on opposition movements and independent media after the elections in February. Similarly, Chile (80th) fell 47 places because of its many freedom of information violations, committed very often by the security forces during student protests.
The United States (47th) also owed its fall of 27 places to the many arrests of journalist covering Occupy Wall Street protests.
http://en.rsf.org/press-freedom-index-2011-2012,1043.html
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