Ireland ranked 15th on Press Freedom Index, Israel a deplorable 112th!

cyberhog

The Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index for 2013 has ranked Israel No. 112 out of 179 countries – a plunge of 20 spots from the 2012 index and the lowest ranking the organization has ever given Israel.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israel-falls-near-bottom-of-press-freedom-rankings.premium-1.500640?block=true

Year after year Israel falls a little further down the rankings due to the increasingly harsh treatment of journalists in the Palestinian territories. The way things are going, in a few years time, Israel will be as bad as North Korea.

CptMackey

cyberhog wrote: »

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israel-falls-near-bottom-of-press-freedom-rankings.premium-1.500640?block=true

Year after year Israel falls a little further down the rankings due to the increasingly harsh treatment of journalists in the Palestinian territories. The way things are going, in a few years time, Israel will be as bad as North Korea.

Where did North Korea place? But its disingenuous to compare Israel and North Korea. North Korea is of the chart when it comes to oppression. Most of Israels neighbours are trying to/have tried/subscribe to getting rid of Israel as a country. There is bad on both sides in this conflict not all on Israel

SeanW

A "deplorable" 112th? It's not good, to be sure, but guess which culture's countries are virtually all lower on the list?

It's always a good idea to get the data behind the outrage before going off on yet another "Israel is evil" rant.

Reporters Without Borders 2013 report, tabular data
http://en.rsf.org/press-freedom-index-2013,1054.html
RWB 2013 report, illustrated world map
http://en.rsf.org/IMG/jpg/2013_wpfi_world_press_freedom_map.jpg

Does anything jump out at ye? To me, some things sure did ...

114 United Arab Emirates
123 Tajikistan
128 Afghanistan
131 Libya
134 Jordan
136 Morocco
138 Tunisia
139 Indonesia
141 Oman
144 Bangladesh
146 "Palestine"
150 Iraq
154 Turkey
158 Egypt
159 Pakistan
160 Kazahstan
163 Saudi Arabia
164 Uzbekistan
165 Bahrain
169 Yemen
170 Sudan
174 Iran
175 Somalia
176 Syria
177 Turkmenistan

brimal

cyberhog, this is getting ridiculous now. I suggest you get yourself a blog or something.
You aren't posting these threads for debate, you just want to have another anti-West (mostly anti-Israel) rant.

You conveniently left out (like you do with all of your rants) some key information. The methodology used for this index has changed this year.

Ha'aretz wrote:

Until this year, Reporters Without Borders gave separate rankings to Israel inside the Green Line (pre-1967 borders) and to the occupied territories. While Israel inside the Green Line was ranked relatively high (up to 40th place), Israel beyond the Green Line was ranked 150th. The combination of the categories helps explain why Israel was ranked so low this year.

Perhaps if you are so concerned about press freedom, maybe you should be drawing more attention to the Arab world instead of a progressive, modern country like Israel?

Scofflaw

cyberhog wrote: »

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israel-falls-near-bottom-of-press-freedom-rankings.premium-1.500640?block=true

Year after year Israel falls a little further down the rankings due to the increasingly harsh treatment of journalists in the Palestinian territories. The way things are going, in a few years time, Israel will be as bad as North Korea.

This is, as has been pointed out, an extremely disingenuous claim, and a change in the methodology of press freedoms ranking does not warrant a Politics thread.

moderately,
Scofflaw