freedom under attack by republicans

Government repression in some countries has shifted from journalists to bloggers, with the vitality of the Internet triggering a more focused crackdown as blogs increasingly take the place of mainstream news media, according to Lucie Morillon, Washington director of the advocacy group Reporters without Borders.

Countries that were not sentencing journalists to prison terms anymore have been doing it these last months for bloggers. This is the case of our allies in the middle east, Egypt and Jordan.

The reason the United States did not make the top 30 in press freedom is because videographer and blogger Josh Wolf spent almost eight months in jail for not turning over video footage of a demonstration in San Francisco and because the confidentiality of press sources is under continued attack by our republican administration. We are also under attack if we differ or criticize our republican government.