Wednesday, January 05, 2005

Full text. Reporters Without Borders issues its annual report. It says: "North America has genuine press freedom, but problems with defending the secrecy of journalistic sources became an important issue in the media. In the United States, the government for the first time put a TV station (the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah Al-Manar) on its list of terrorist organisations, thus silencing its broadcasts in the country. While Al-Manar has unquestionably broadcast unacceptable anti-Semitic statements, the US government may have set a dangerous precedent by putting any kind of news media in the same category as a terrorist group."