Press freedom: SA is 39th on world list
Freedom of the press is good in Finland. It’s terrible in Eritrea. How well does South Africa fare? |||
Paris – Media freedom suffered a “drastic decline” worldwide last year in part because of extremist groups such as Islamic State and Boko Haram, the watchdog group Reporters Without Borders said in its annual evaluation released on Thursday.“There has been an overall deterioration linked to very different factors, with information wars, and action by non-state groups acting like news despots,” the head of the Paris-based group, Christophe Deloire, told AFP.The Reporters Without Borders 2015 World Press Freedom …read more
Source: Independent Online
