Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Why would it surprise you? Have you not been reading about the new laws restricting photography? People being detained, arrested, threatened. Last week a Canadian journalist (and everyone else on the plane) was taken off an international flight intransit from Sydney to Vancouver on a fuel stop in Hawaii, photographed and finger printed them. What about the newspapers that are threatened and boycotted (by members and supporters and a particular political party) because of of editorials they write. Happened in Texas last month. Web servers being siezed by federal police. Reporters being detained at political conventions without charge ...just to keep them out of the way for a few hours. ...and you can fill a web server with the litany of verbal assaults coming from religious and politcal groups in the USA. It's a pretty ugly environment for working journalists. So, yes, RSF is pretty accurate. This is a discussion that can't avoid being political. Because its politicans that create the environment which restrict press freedom. And its not just press freedon but civil freedoms in general. Unfortunetly in the USA ....and Canada! There are those who think this is OK and support restrictions on civil and constitutional rights. So unless you are prepared to go down that road...... Greg Locke St. John's, Newfoundland http://blog.greglocke.com ----------------------------- Independent journalism from Newfoundland & Labrador > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+locke=straylight.ca@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+locke=straylight.ca@leica-users.org] On > Behalf Of Adam Bridge > Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 12:50 AM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: [Leica] OT: press freedom? > > Since I know there are some photo-journalists out here I > thought I'd ask about the Reporters Without Borders ratings > of press freedom by nation. > > By their account the US is down quite a ways which surprises > me, I suppose. > > <http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=11715> > > Accurate? > > Feel free to respond on the forum which is where this belongs. > > Thanks > > Adam > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >