Press freedom in India has deteriorated due to increased interference by media owners ahead of the general elections this year as a global media watchdog ranked India at a dismal 78th position in an annual report published on 2nd May.
"India's score declined by a point, to 39, to reflect increased interference in content by media owners in the run-up to the 2014 elections, which led to the dismissal of key editorial staff in several instances," Freedom of Press 2014 said.
The report, published by Freedom House - an NGO established in 1941 that has been ranking countries worldwide since 1980 -- ranked China at 183 and Pakistan at 141.
Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden topped the list, which included 197 countries. North Korea was placed at the bottom.
The United States is ranked 30th in the report, which says global press freedom has fallen to its lowest level for over a decade.
The decline was driven in part by major regression in several Middle Eastern states, including Egypt, Libya, and Jordan; marked setbacks in Turkey, Ukraine, and a number of countries in East Africa; and deterioration in the relatively open media environment of the United States, it said.
Source: http://cablequest.org/news/national-news/item/4761-press-freedom-in-india-sink-report.html
Source: http://cablequest.org/news/national-news/item/4761-press-freedom-in-india-sink-report.html
Source: http://cablequest.org/news/national-news/item/4761-press-freedom-in-india-sink-report.html
Source: http://cablequest.org/news/national-news/item/4761-press-freedom-in-india-sink-report.html
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