Press Freedom Index for 2017

Interesting to compare the top scoring countries with the Happiness Top Scores in the other thread. By the time you get to 13 in this list, you've included all top Ten HappyLands, except for Canada and Australia*. I'd say that correlation makes quite an obvious statement.
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*because unhappier but journo-friendlier Costa Rica, Jamaica, Estonia and Austria scored better than us two former British colonies (Go for Top 25 Free Press Places and we're both in, but our Motherland is way down at #40)

canada-man said:

Jamaica is number 8 the only developing country in the top 10. the 4 Nordic countries are in the top 4 Iceland is at 10 Canada is at 22

The U.S.A is at 43, Israel 91 and Palestine 135


https://rsf.org/en/ranking_table

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Tough to take this too seriously as it's based largely on qualitative data, specifically a survey sent to "media professionals, lawyers and sociologists".

An interesting read on the quantitative tracking though/

KK

kkelso said:

Tough to take this too seriously as it's based largely on qualitative data, specifically a survey sent to "media professionals, lawyers and sociologists".

An interesting read on the quantitative tracking though/

KK

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Although their data would be difficult to cross-tabulate, who would be more likely to notice and register levels of press-freedom than such folks? It's highly unlikely 'official government data' would be superior.