An "Amnesty International" supporters guide to press freedom.
The analogy is of a headmasters office. Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden are always polite, never in trouble and are to be made prefects. Today a list of press freedoms was published, and, surprisingly, Scandinavia was in first place. The rest of Europe? Ireland had high marks but I fail to see why, there is endemic corruption, unexplained deaths in police custody and who cares what The Pope had for breakfast (which seems the sole topic of foreign news in Ireland). Further down the bad boys. Italy, Spain and Romania caught smoking outside the girls toilets again. Bulgaria is on detention, with extra lines and the cane. Report sent to Bulgaria's Mother. The U.K? Forget the Torygraph, censorship central unless one is solidly B.N.P, what, what Featherstone-MacCorquodale? Languishing at the bottom is Russia.
Russia will not be allowed on the school trip. Africa is worst off. Eritrea, you again. Shooting journalists, stifling dissent. Forbidden literature, the biography of Blair, eh? Why is it that the northern hemisphere (by and large) fares better? That "the west" allows a greater lassitude of press freedom?
Russia will not be allowed on the school trip. Africa is worst off. Eritrea, you again. Shooting journalists, stifling dissent. Forbidden literature, the biography of Blair, eh? Why is it that the northern hemisphere (by and large) fares better? That "the west" allows a greater lassitude of press freedom?