Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Daniel > > Press wise I guess we are dealing with things like the Iraq and > Afghanistan issues - The press not being allowed to show pictures of any > more couffins. Press being restricted by military rules etc. Ruben, I think you're right. The rankings dropped from 2002 to 2003 for the US because they started targetting and killing journalists in Afghanistan and Iraq. The background information to the year 2003 explains that. But the 32 ranking is for "internal freedom" ... the behaviour outside the country dropped the US down to 165. I didn't cite those numbers. > The USA freedom issue is one big paradox - half of the USA saves the > world out of believe in freedom and brotherhood, and the other half > saves the world because of money - so do we europeans love or hate the > USA ? I sure as ... would not have liked to be a European during the > 20th century if it had not been for the Americans - Probably not, ... well, certainly not. But we are talking about something that happened a half a century ago. Stalin was a good guy back then too. "Things change". It is an involved issue though and you are right about the diversity of interests at play in the US ... from altruism to Machavelli-ism (ism:s everywhere you look). I was just addressing one naive comment about the freedom of the press. Daniel - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html