Media Attacked, Journalists Murdered: Democracy Eroded

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Singapore, routinely touted by western politicians as a shiny model of success, slumbers here, and just above Syria and Iran we find America's Middle-East pal, the Royal Dictatorship of Saudi Arabia (170th), where according to RSF, the "press is completely gagged".
46% : In countries where violence is not an acceptable option for silencing pesky journalists, as well as in authoritarian regimes where it is, a variety of methods of control are employed and increasingly so: Regulation of media laws (including defamation law suits); financial pressure; internet shut-downs and cyber bullying; low pay, poor working conditions; the pursuit of profit and/or political advantage over journalistic integrity, and the inhibiting impact of hostile sections of the public towards the media, particularly the so-called "liberal" media.

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