Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Press freedom on the wane throughout the world

KUWAIT TIMES: NEW YORK: Press freedom around the world deteriorated last year due to coups, attempts to stifle political opposition and regulate use of the Internet, a leading watchdog said in a report yesterday. US-based Freedom House outlined what it said were particularly troubling trends in Asia, the former Soviet Union and Latin America, in a report that warned that democracy as a whole would likely suffer. "Press freedom is like the canary in the coal mine," the group's executive director Jennifer Windsor said in a statement. Press freedom around the world in decline (Read on)

Mark Alexander