“Worldwide press freedom is substantial and worrying decline”. So Reporters Without Borders summarizes the data of the annual report on the state of information. And among the countries where there is less freedom of expression also includes Italy, dropped to 77th place, behind the other four positions compared to 2014, and steadily deteriorating since 2002, the first year in which the non-governmental organization It began to prepare its report. Everywhere, RSF stresses, political leaders are “paranoid” against journalists and “the survival of independent information is becoming increasingly precarious, both in the private media or controlled by the states, because of ideology, especially religious, hostile to freedom of the press “. A significant threat to independent journalism is also represented by “large-scale propaganda tools.” the progress of Africa . There are only bad news: for the first time Africa ranks just behind Europe and America does best, demonstrating the vitality of a continent where a very young population is struggling for her rights. Asia remains the dramatic situation, largely explained by the indicators used by RSF to compile its rankings, indicators including the censorship of the Internet and therefore, record the alarming situation of many Asian countries, most notably Korea North and China. the printing havens . The best place in the world to be a journalist confirms Finland, which since 2010 has topped the list of RSF, followed in 2015 from Holland, who earns two places, and from Norway, who lost his second position. Russia, Turkey and Egypt are respectively 48 °, 151 ° and 159 ° place. Taillights are Turkmenistan (178 °), North Korea (179th) and Eritrea (180 °). In 2015 RSF report also noted the improvement of Tunisia, which gains 30 positions and also Ukraine, which gained 22 seats thanks to the stabilization of the conflict. The European decline . Analyses RSF highlight “the gradual erosion of the European model” mainly due to an abuse of anti-terrorism laws, a phenomenon that in past years had already been studied and reported especially with regard to freedom of the press in the United States and Great Britain. “The approval of laws for mass soprveglianza, growing conflicts of interest and an increasing control over state media and even private” are for NGOs in worrying increase. Behind the blackboard end especially Poland, where press freedom has suffered a collapse vertigionoso because the objectives, openly declared by the Government, to take control of the media and especially the foreign ownership law, passed at the beginning of 2016, which directly enables the government to lay off or hire the services of public radio and TV journalists. In Hungary, which still lies in the ranking as high as Italy, being the 67th), the report says that the “advice information, controlled by the government, has the task of defining and ensuring respect for the” public decency “and.” human dignity “to threaten the independence of European journalists there is also the conflict of interest. the European model, as pointed out by RSF, sees more and more average properties of large companies with a wide range of interests. This is the case of France (45th) where “most of the national media belongs to a small group of businessmen with interests in economic areas that have nothing to do with journalism. In Bulgaria (113esima, relegated to positions 7) the European country with the lowest press freedom, politicians and interest groups control most of the media. In Macedonia (118esima) the selection made by the state on advertising concessions was used to control and muzzle the media. “ ” In Britain (38th, down four seats) – yet the report denounces – police used new laws to violate journalists’ sources, while the number of searches for the same purpose has grown in Italy, a country where there are frequent threats of the Mafia “.” physical violence is were reported in Croatia (65th, down 5 positions) and Serbia (59th), where journalists have been taken hostage or victims of bomb attacks. “ parameters search. the World Press freedom Index measures the level of freedom of journalists in 180 countries using the following criteria: pluralism, independence of the media, the environment in which it operates and self-censorship, measures of law, transparency, infrastructure and abuse. In particular, RWB has been in steady decline all parameters from 2013 to the present day and especially worsening infrastructure, considering that many governments do not hesitate to prevent access to the Internet or destroy the media offices and their equipment, obvious phenomenon the decrease of 16% from 2013 to the present, the indicator of infrastructure. Even the laws on information have deteriorated, by measures which penalized the journalists accused of crimes such as “insulting the president”, “blasphemy”, “apology for terrorism.” As a result, there has been an increase in self-censorship, grew up in the 10 data per cent from 2013 to 2016. Every continent has seen its deterioration in a sector or the other of the press. In America, because of the dramatic crisis of Mexico, where several journalists have been killed by drug traffickers, freedom of information has dropped by 20.5 percent and in Europe and in the Balkans there was a decline of 6.5 percent due to the growing influence of extremist groups and ultra-conservative governments.
The case of Italy and Vatileaks . Our country ranks among the last in the European Union, where, however, journalists still enjoy greater protection and autonomy from the rest of the world. Worse than we do only Cyprus, Greece and Bulgaria, better make Moldova, Nicaragua, Armenia and Lesotho. Most at risk are those who make Italian reporter inquiries into organized crime and corruption. speaking Italy the RSF report devotes a separate paragraph in Republic and the investigation of Vatileaks. “In 2015, The Republic has reported that between 30 and 50 journalists are under protection because they have been threatened. The level of violence against journalists (including verbal abuse, physical intimidation and death threats) is alarming” , the report points out and continues stigmatizing the story of the journalist of ‘ Express Emiliano Fittipaldi and conductor Gianluigi Nuzzi La7: “the judicial system of the Vatican City is persecuting the media in connection with the Vatileaks scandal and Vatileaks 2. Two journalists face up to eight years in prison for having written books on corruption and intrigue within the Holy See. “
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