Denmark Tumbles On Worldwide Press Freedom Index In 2006... Guess Why

Reporters Sans Frontieres has released their 2006 annual report including this year's Worldwide Press Freedom Index (PDF), with summary stories and one's country's own placement being the focus of the press rollout thus far. Cartoon-related incidents are cited as factors in determining the relative press freedoms enjoyed in Belarus and Burma, while the Danish cartoons controversy became kind of its own category. Threats against the lives of the cartoonists in Denmark caused that country to go from a shared #1 to #19, while the negative reaction to local publication was a factor driving down the rankings of Algeria, India, Jordan and Yemen.
 
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