This is has got to be another severe dent to free press! Malaysia has slipped to its lowest ranking ever in the Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) press freedom index to the 132nd position in 2008 from 124th position last year. How about that! In the day when a journalist can get arrested for her own security? Its not surprising that our position is slipping by the day.
If you are wondering why people nowdays opt to online resources for their daily dose of updates and even to bloggers which some quaters claim to be nothing but mere lies?! Well here’s your answer!!
The press freedom index clearly shows that our press are not free to report what they want too and has got some control mechanism in place to ensure that the people don’t necessarily get what really happened maybe?
Sad piece of stat for Malaysia! Anyway hopefully someday this stat improves for the sake of press freedom and we get news reported the way it actually happened.
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Source : The New Politickler
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