Press Freedom Index - In Which Countries Is Journalism Free?
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
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Do you agree with the Press Freedom Ranking for *your* country?
No not for india
When a few multinational corporations strangle independent reporting...the West is ranked way too high.
Yes for Poland
Highly disagree with Brazil's one, we live in a democracy, any reporter can say whatever they want, about the government or anything... You'll basically never be arrested here for simply exercising the journalist profession, very different from Russia, Kazakhstan, Venezuela etc...
Yes, I agree that in my country press freedom is low, but I also noticed that you literally erased Belarus, Russia and Ukraine from Europe, in 11:48. Well, I understand about Russian,but what about others? And also funny part: You erased Russia, but not all: what about part in Scandinavian peninsula?
P.S. Overall video is good, its helpful to see that someone cares about my country, thx for video!
Congrats to Eritrea, I don't even know it was possible to be worse in press freedom than North Korea.
Oh yeah, they are a massively messed up country. The comedy film “The Dictator” is based on Eritrea.
Fun Fact: Eritrea is one of two countries that still practice “Taxation without Representation”, or in other words, taxing its citizens, even when they are living abroad, simply because they were born in Eritrea and have citizenship there. Bet you can’t guess the other country...
@@kgapaneseschoolgirlb It's the US isn't it? (sry but your KGB alias got me thinking)
@@kgapaneseschoolgirlb It's the US isn't it? (sry but your KGB alias got me thinking)
@@rasmusn.e.m1064 Indeed, it is the U.S.
Sorry, but you shouldn’t be thinking about a certain acronym alias I may, or may not have...If you know what’s good for ya ;)
@@kgapaneseschoolgirlb I mean, I just gotta be honest to what inspired my figuring it out, if you catch my drift. Anti-US sentiment is Anti-US sentiment, even if it's just in my brain.
The right question is "Which country is free from journalism?"
Obviously I'm joking
Shit I thought u were serious. Thank goodness tho, cuz that coulda ended badly.
Republicans want to see America become less free
@@kaiseramadeus233 Shut up.
@@elias_xp95 make me
@@kaiseramadeus233 Meanwhile Mainstream Media being bias moments
I think it should be called "Reporters Without Orders"
At the first glance when I saw Brazil as red I immediatly assumed it to be a political index (almost worthless). Brazil's freedom of press is on the constitution and there's no legal barriers to journalists. However looking as how the index is constructed taking in consideration many variables as violence, corruption, media monopolies, etc. it looks quite accurate. It is sad to see how limited freedom of press is around the world, even the most "free" countries as NA and EU has some significant problems.
Freedom of press is on Brasil constitution, however the Brazil Supreme Court has misinterpreted it to arrest journalist Oswaldo Eustáquio and even the deputy Daniel Silveira.
@@tiagodb Hate speech and defamation aren't covered on the brazillian constitution, those people are the reason why Brazil is ranked so long on the index. Several key allies of Bolsonaro have been working to spread hate and threats towards their political opponents and are also attempting to undermine democracy by supporting a possible military coup. It makes sense for Brazil ranking to be so bad when you take into account that Bolsonaro has threatened several times to commit a coup d'état and regularly harasses political opponents.
@@Gamer-fz5gl
In Brazil it is not crime to say the truth, at least in Brazil's written law. Nevertheless if the truth is not favorable for that who rules, like Brazil Supreme Court (STF), they will bend the law to become that vague definition of hate speech, which it is today used to persecute opponents. Recently one accusation of corruption against Dias Toffoli reached the STF. They solely halted the investigation and filed the case.
@@tiagodb The person you were talking about made several threats, insulted and spreaded various false rumours about those judges. A person who openly praises a dictatorship and regularly threatens ministers is a threat to democracy and free press.
The same thing would happen in any other country, even the USA, attacking/slandering a judge is something that can and will get you arrested.
Saying that your supreme courts bends the law is hypocritical given that Bolsonaro used an old "National Security" law to harass several of his political opponent who criticized him.
@@tiagodb Ele era blogueiro, mentiu sobre a suprema corte, apoiava um presidente que era contra a vacinação e uso de mascará, colaborou com o ex-ministro do Rio de Janeiro que fugiu para os EUA e depois também começou a espalhar informações falsas sobre o próprio colega (o presidente).
Só isso já dava pena de morte ou perpétua em outros países.
For the colombian one, is not correct to say the government isn't involved at all, most of the people in the government have strong connections with said illegal groups, and although the restriction to journalism is mainly due illegal factors, the people in the government are the ones backing it or encovering it. I'm colombian btw
Same with France, the reports clearly say that their low rating is mostly due to policemen throwing tear gas at journalists during protests and arresting them without evidence
General Knowledge: there is no green to be seen
Costa Rica: *am i a joke to you*
Yes it is
@@ccdsds3221 Basically, Costa Rica is the best country in the American Continent, deal with it.
Costa Rica is in central america
@@Gamirca isn't central America a region and not a continent
@@MarcTelang yes, just like North America
Thanks for writing the Netherlands in orange in the top ten. Our national color ;-)
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IMHO, the main problem with this is list is, that press freedom is not the most important. What matters to me most is that journalism is objective. While lack of press freedom often leads to lack of objectivity, people often assume that abundance of freedom guarantees objectivity, which is not the case. There are many places where despite greater freedom journalists grow complacent and basically join the club with the government, even if they are not directly dependent, they stop being on the "people's team" and move to "government's team".
The shifts can be clearly seen, when a government or president unpopular with the media is elected - suddenly the amount of coverage of every decision or action that is made doubles up. Basically media shift and cover less abroad topic and devote more time to domestic ones. While in some cases it could be that the option unpopular with the media is simply worse and generates more scandals, the consistency with which it happens worldwide for me means that the personal preferences of journalists play a role as well.
Where I live is labelled as semi-free and we have noted a big drop in the ranking in recent years, but I personally think this was good for journalism as a whole - the quality of information I have access to increased IMHO.
Completely agree there.
I want to add something which should be going the same direction as your post :)
The news/"journalists" also might be influenced unknowingly to believe stuff or just forward news which is sent to them via big press agencies.
Lots of journalists might not even think about being used as media-puppets because of their environment and workload.
There's a really good advise from a swiss historian and peace activist (Daniele Ganser, also on RUclips), who wants the people to be "awake and aware" about what they read and from which sources it comes. this way one might be able to see 'frames' being build beforehand and also begin to question and start being skeptical. It's not that much about mistrust, but about being aware of what is presented and in which way.
Greetings from Germany.
This list kind-of measures objectivity. He mentioned some nations have state-controlled media, and others have media monopolies which can affect the bias of media.
My country is listed as semi-free, but most media are highly critical of the government, sometimes rightfully (they suck, I hate both main parties), other times even making shit up because they are funded by the opposition, so it's not even like they're on the government side. And their mockery of the government can get very offensive and sometimes even discriminatory, all in the name of freedom of press, and they feel like democracy has been attacked if a politician dares to make an angry tweet lol. At least right now that's what happens.
But when the party in charge swaps with the opposition, media still are critical but not as blatantly hateful and promoting hatred. Our socioeconomic situation in the past few decades has been so bad they can't just say everything's alright (although sometimes State media does, but barely anyone, less than 2%, watch that tv channel lol).
It all sucks, and I'm not sure who I hate more, the politicians or the journalists.
You'd better believe the press isn't free! It's USD 2.50 Monday to Friday and USD 3.99 on Sunday (not available Saturday) where I live
I didn’t know my country had freedom press at risk. The last time I saw this ranking we had small issues. I hope this problems can be solved, in order to improve press freedom. Thanks for your video. Greetings from Chile 🇨🇱.
I think a country with too high or low press freedom is not a good country to live in.
Too free, media will make up craps or cause arguments (some disagreement is good but arguments are not)
Too unfree, it's hard for the government to work well.
@@gordonchao3074
You are giving to much importance to media. So most yellow countries are not good enough for you? That includes the US and Canada and Asia. You just dont understand how the world really works, most people dont care about media at all.
@@ericktellez7632 Did you read all parts of my comment? I don't understand what you are commenting about?
yes, really sad timing for this video, last year and since who knows when, Chile was at the "Small issues" category, I wonder what exactly made our performance worsen a little, I do know tho, although freedom of press, at least in social media is totally free, but in TV only around 5 main channels monopolize the whole picture in the industry and that can only go wrong
@@gordonchao3074 Huh? With a low ranking, it’s hard for the government to work well? How? The countries that have low rankings, they control what their media reports. They primarily only have government funded state run media. Not independent or even corporate. I also don’t think there is such thing as to free. If anything, you’re the more free that it is, the more of the truth that you’re getting. When media isn’t financed by government or corporations, they have little to no outside influence.
I'm kind of getting a bit sick and tired with Norway being number one at this, number one at that, having the best chess player ever to live, best footballer atm, most gold medals in the winter olympics, most EVs per capita, largest sovereign wealth fund, owning 2% of all stocks in the world. All of this being number one at EVERTHING is starting to makes us look a little bit like douchebags 🙈🙈😂 Geez, we are even number one at having the worst weather!
You are actually, all of the nordics benefits through unequal exchange and exploitation of the third world.
Norwegian weather is not the worst
Gotta love seeing your own country in the biggest decrease category. And I should say it is totally deserved seeing what happened in the past year. I could easily see it becoming even worse, and that’s sad when you take into consideration the fact that my country, Lebanon, was considered the “most free” between all of his neighbors.
It still is tbh. Hopefully it gets better. U just need to remove al the sectarian ideas and laws and whatnot. Im syrian and i LOVE Lebanon (although some Lebanese people...lets just say were not the kindest to me and my family lol)
It's sad to see that the only free country in the middle east is Cyprus, And even Turkish Cyprus is FAR from free. People can argue that Israel has press freedom but... that would be a joke. It's "good" relative to the rest of the middle east but for a small country... Especially a Westernized Democratic country, it's horrific.
Two surprises--Japan is orange and thus has "big issues" with press freedom, and Costa Rica is in better shape than the U.S. and even Canada in the Western Hemisphere. Fascinating stuff...
Gotta love Toby showing up when Costa Rica was mentioned. 😂
Romania is a leader in the region 💙💛❤️
By the width of a human hair but yes lmao
I'm really happy to see that as a Romanian, quiet disappointed by Bulgaria tho
In corruption they're a leader too.
@@ricktrickshots2642 in Eastern Europe? Nah, Hungary, Bulgaria, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Albania etc surpasses Romania in corruption, probably the least corrupted country in the region
@@andresduques2013 Slovenia is the least corrupted country in the Balkans followed by Albania then Croatia.And that is because these 3 countries 98% of their goverment services are done online automatically which means there cant be corruption because you dont even have the chance to corrupt the autobot systems they use.You should upgrade your knowledge about the Balkans buddy Romania has a lot of work to do to get there.Your country should start digitalising or else you are doomed
Ah, yes, Laosh and Timor-Leshte :D
You're from Portugal, aren't you?
He is
Timor-Lesht xd
PORTUGAL QUER ALHO
I’m noticing a trend in my country (Ireland) in that we’re always near the top. I never knew we were such a good country
Not Irish, but me too
It really is... Ireland is basically Scandinavian. lol.
Ireland also has a high Income-adjusted Human Development Index since it has a high Gross National Income per capita (Purchasing Power Parity)
Ireland is the only country whose citizens can live and work in both the EU and the UK
Ireland is mega based
Me neither (I’m from Norway)
@@Anna-pj8te you don't know how lucky you are
Living in the green area I must say, that the Press Freedom doesn't increase the Press Quality...
Just a detail but, dude, seriously, Russia is a European country.
Most Russians live in Europe, the history of Russia lies in Europe, their culture was influenced by the Greeks and the Romans like everyone else, and they are Slavs.
Good video though.
It depends who you ask
@That clone trooper in the back on the high ground not near, but in. Europe border lies on Ural mountains in Russia.
And actually, Europe isn't a dedicated continent, just a subcontinent of Eurasia, with minoritqy of its territory and population
Invades swaths of land the size of China in ASIA
“Seriously they’re Europeans”
@@shitslayer8a So I guess in the past the British people were Afro-Asians and the Spanish were Americans.
Shallow criteria bring nonsensical logic.
Wow! So much excellent information in such a short space. Excellent
Here in Brazil, we have a lot of problems affecting the freedom of the press.
3 main reasons IMO:
A- Frequent attacks by the government.
B- Violence in general.
C- and maybe the main reason - the massive concentration of the power. It's said that only 6 families control all the press inside this continental country.
Now, the real trap here: Reasons A and C maintain each other!!! Because government should be responsible for better regulation. But how can we believe that the intentions behind the government's actions are good when there are so many unjustified attacks?
It seems we have here a terrible war happening into the darkness. On one side we have the richest people controlling the press and on the other, some politicals with dictatory ways. They use poor citizens to fight each other in a cold war. Very sad 😭.
Hi, I feel for you, I am so frustrated with the world.
I live in Norway, I feel like its a utopia when I look at other countries, it just feels so awfull to know how many people are struggling.
It feels like an action movie, except we are playing with real lives, and there is so little I can do about it.
I wish you the best and we should have a positive outlook on the world. I would recomend you take a look at what you can do to stay more anonymous on the internet and search up guides to privacy. Its one of the best ways to fight back against centralized power.
GK: “DON’T just take this as is, follow up on this!”
Me, a man of minimal effort: A video is good enough.
Nah, I clicked the link and did some reading. One click! C'mon, man...
@@BigMamaDaveX That link is all the way in the description, I can’t walk that far.
It's sad that the score in Germany got worse, and it went from green to yellow, partly (or even mostly) because of Covid-19 conspiracists attacking reporters at demonstrations...
The Netherlands is also following that path in a rapid pace.
@Moljo Never said that everyone criticizing government measures is a conspiracist. That itself is totally fine.
Most (or *many*) people at those demonstration are though. And attacking reporters in any way - be it physically or verbally - because of that is simply NOT okay, it's fucked up. And also goes right against what they say they want: _Freedom_
Freedom includes _freedom of press_ though.
@Moljo So if you're simply advocating for rights and against some measures, no problem. You aren't meant by my original comment then :)
@@ahsokatano5798 For real? Shit, haven't heard too much about it tbh. But would make sense given the similar circumstances...
Doubt that's why
Romania is so cool that it had to appear twice in this video
3 times actually lol
at 7:19 it manages to appear in Spain actually :D
The US is not yellow. Realistically, we're orange, and getting close to red.
We are within spitting distance of black when demofascists are in power.
Great video!
A few things I will point out though. At 8:37 you said there were 11 countries in Asia coloured black and then named 12. Also, you missed out Singapore (where I live).
Yes! I also missed Lebanon in the orange
@@General.Knowledge Missed Israel as well.
Yes!!!! Been waiting for you to release a video like this! THANK YOU General Knowledge, your knowledge is a million times better than general!
As a Greek, this seems legit. As you said in the begging, not due to government bans or anything, but definitely due to payrolls.
Always, the governing party has majority control over the media, and complete control of the national broadcasting company, in TV and radio at least, I can't say I read the newspaper so I don't really know about that, the free to air channels are owned by moguls, that promote their interests, no matter true or false, and lastly, there's always widespread panic. There is not a single instance that I've watched the news and happiness prevailed. Frankly, that damages my brain, and I'm 23, imagine the kind of brainwash it can do to the elderly.
As for online journalists, we're talking about a country that majors in clickbaiting. 8/10 total articles are there just to get views while giving you no info at all.
Journalism in Greece is, let's face it, shit, we all know that, yet no one can't and won't do anything.
And for any Greek that reads this comment, ΑΡΔ, συνοψίζει όλα τα παραπάνω.
damn I was born in 2002 and seeing that screen at 0:04 made me think: "damn a lot of stuff happened in the meantime..."
Scandinavians excel in everything bruh
They don't. The whole freedom of speech index thing is a fraud if it comes outta West. As usual.
@@gogaonzhezhora8640 Expect there are free press in the East just as censorship exists in the West. People just complain about their country's ranking because of their soft SJW ego.
@@gogaonzhezhora8640 I went to Norway and its 100% true. What are you, a Soviet?
@@Nexandr Just because you "went to Norway" does not mean you understand how Norway works. Of course I am a Soviet. You say it like it's a bad thing :) Being a Soviet means first and foremost being well educated. That's what most people lack nowadays.
@@petergriffin9902 LOL how the fuck would bring SJW into this? We don't have that disease here except for a couple of usual abominations.
There is no such thing as absolute freedom, nor should there be any. I just state the obvious fact. That right here and now Russia has the most liberal state of affairs regarding freeedom of speech and free press. And the West tries hard(including use of the controlled press in the West) to make the world believe it's not the case releasing those absurd pamphlets in which western coutries come away as "free" and Russia is a "dictatorship".
The term "press freedom" is such a wooly term that if you asked 100 people what it meant, you would get 100 different answers. Nobody seems to know what is exactly meant by freedom of the press. When you see these press freedom indices the factors that are often considered include: degree of government censorship, government intervention, private ownership of media firms, harassment of journalists by government or by other persons, the ease of news gathering, freedom of information legislation, etc. When I studied journalism, one thing that was raised for discussion was "no prior restraint" which means there should be no restriction of the press before publication. To quote from my handout for the unit I studied: "If, however, that publication involves a breach of the law, then writers and printers responsibility should suffer punishment in full. Thus freedom of the press is not an absolute right. It denotes a right of freedom to publish, but not a right to prevent punishment for what is published when it breaks the law."
So for press freedom, what is it exactly? Did the drafters of the First Amendment to the US constitution know precisely what was meant by freedom of the press, at the time it was drafted in the 18th century? Was it freedom to publish and/or freedom of news gathering, freedom from harassment, etc
Well Malaysia oofed. Can't say I'm surprised. I do see articles about journalists being arrested from time to time.
Our country is declining at alarming rate.......I WANT TO GET OUT OF HERE!!.
@@dezalt Honestly it's really hard to understand what our country really is, how it functions and it's goals. Our priorities are all over the place.
@@Route-cy6cx Wait our country have goals? I thought this country just another puppet state of CCP.
Being from Brazil I wasn't expecting this bad of a position. The more national press is at least relatively free. It used to have issues of pluralism, but not so much anymore.
Then I realized that the problem is probably on the regional scene. There is a lot of state level and municipal level biased media. Actually, in some regions the political elite basically monopolize the mediums.
I can't believe Brazil is ranked so bad. What a shame.
Anyway, Costa Rica is green! ¡Pura vida!
Viva Costa Rica! Wait I just realised their name means rich coast how have I never realised this
@@commemorative same thing with puerto rico being rich port
I'm from Poland and I would say that orange is really accurate. Let's just say about many situations where journalists are brought to trial because they criticized government or opposition. Also it's good to say that one of the biggest tv station is under total control of government
Sadly it's true at the moment, we can only hope that will change with the next election
@@Morrov I've heard bad things about Duda. Are those thing true?
@@Morrov sadly the USA should be orange to
@@andybrown3849 Yes
@@Account-jn7xu exactly which is why the USA should be orange twitter Facebook and instagram is nothing but shit and cancel anyone based on there own interests no matter who it is and the media CNN fox news not real new the media is supposed to be independent lol there extremely bias there oppressing themselves lol
This show well why freedom of press is so important for the success of a country! More people need to see this video!
The sad thing is is that the vast majority of the population lives in areas with severely obstructed press freedom, and that percentage is growing by the day. Could we be headed for a world where extreme censorship is the norm?
yes
Yayy Finland is in the thumbnail!!
Super imformative thank you! I learn more from you than my teachers at school lol
West world : I'm judging the entire world tru my systems.
East world : Go ahead, do like we care..
West world : Democracy and freedom of speech is the best way to govern.. Please do respect.
East world : Ok.. Respect our ways too.
The freedom of speech is about journalism , press and people free to speak against their leadership . The think about the relationship between countries is that it's between leaderships , the populations are not consulted , so if they shut down the complaints of the populations and prevent them to think and speak against them , any leadership can argue that the population is very happy under it's rule and use this argument for maintaining in power (while they don't have the right to say that their government is flawed)
@@madmouse4400 Like what i mentioned, do respect each other..
"Our" ways = Emperor's way.
@@mr.adamvlad367 The problem is authoritarian countries are attacking democracies (Russia attacking Ukraine, China threatening Taiwan, North Korea attacking South Korea etc.).
@@Strongpoint100 that is what u see and believe. Contrast in reality.
I never understand why everyone always say that Brazil has little press freedom, literally the press can say anything they want and the government does nothing againist them, I can't understand how this map put Brazil in the same level as Venezuela where the press is state owned
Of course the press is kinda corupt by big corporations but they are totally free
Have you ever heard of Glenn Greenwald? He’s one of the many journalists in Brazil that are intimidated by police controlled by the president. They will charge journalists with bullshit accusations such as cybercrime or other nonsense. Eventually the Judiciary drops the charges but if Brazil were free these charges wouldn’t exist.
@@lumer2b dude in brazil the press talks shit about the president and government every day, and nothing happens with them they are still there talking bad things
@@lumer2b Yes I do know Grenwald, but the governament did nothing (nothingh relevant) againist him, the journalists in Brazil can criticize the governament as much as they want
@@fgsaramago Yes I see your point
I think it would be interesting to do a video about the worst one and their history about how freedom of press came to this oppression
This would just be a documentary on north korea.
@@Rhapbus1 There's history in Cuba, as well as China, Laos etc...
So no, it wouldn't be only around that.
The worst one isnt north koria .
I’m pretty sure the worst country in press freedom is Eritrea
Full press freedom in a country with Diverse and Complex social issue might do more harm than good, but that doesn't mean that we should block press freedom either, good regulation on sensitive issue is a best tool, sometimes there's knowledge that best to be kept out to prevent instability within country but must be released when the time is right, since journalist themselves are human who are also prone to making mistake and blind truth wasn't always the best case
I am only here for the Caribbean which again seeing all lot of the islands not being shown not even seeing Barbados.
they are often not shown because they are so small that data is hard to gather.
I know, some small countries fall out of map, not fair
@@tuurehu3392 hello data would be easier to gather in smaller places. Not like you have to travel thousands of Kilometers or Miles to gather data. If a letter size map in a Atlas can show Barbados tell me why a digital map which is far easier to draw and resize can't fit Barbados. For the record his map shows Trinidad and Tobago as red (don't tell me Venezuela annexed my home island ) when on the rankings it is a yellow and rank number 31.
How do you even rank worse than North Korea?!
The USA should be red..Press here is mostly very partial
Yeah, and that's because they have a freedom to be partial.
They are also very Partisan
Great video! It is rare to see such videos without people getting overly political.
That’s odd; Chinese people on YT tell me China’s press is totally free.
They lied
Not only that, they're upset about other nation's press. Free Cheng Lei.
@@nisur6794 destroy the CCP
They are not even allowed to use YT in their country , while their government can , they obviously lie
I would love to see a video on oldest languages and how they evolved today. Not sure if possible. But would be incredibly interesting.
If the Brazilian press is at risk. I don't even want to know what it would be like with complete freedom.
From my experience, one thing you could stop doing is those checkpoints in main roads, in which every car has to slow almost to a stop. That freaked me out somewhat.
Excelente video. Obrigado. Fico contente de saber que Portugal está tão bem posicionado. Achei que iriamos estar pior.
Ainda acho que o brasil taria melhor
Argentina is orange but Argentinian province of Terra del Fuego is red for some reason.
In Australia there are a lot more concerns to press freedom than just the lack of a constitutional guarantee.
I'd agree with the U.S. press freedom being low especially when reporting on election fraud and the threat of cancel culture.
For such accusations they would need some sort of proof. Not just allegations, proof.
@@fischersfritz468 I'm not saying it was enough to turn an election but kicking reporters out of ballot counting stations in Detroit and covering windows doesn't help for the transparency of a fair and honest press.
@@gold-818 those cases were brought to court. In many many different cases. ..and lost every single time.
You could argue, that those courts were biased. But then: all 60+ courts? Even in deeply red regions?
@@fischersfritz468 I'm not talking about the courts I'm talking about the freedom to report. If something suspicious happens at polling station A the press should be able to investigate. But in the U.S. your post will be taken down because it goes against a narrative.
@@gold-818 then you watched/read some clearly different sources than i. Wherever i looked it was full of outrage and accusations. Every single incident was investigated and reported to death. Fox news, sky news etc. Reported it for a long time in every detail.
Other medias: not so much. They don't need to.
Freedom of press does not mean you're allowed to do anything and anywhere on every channel.
Ey! My country Norway, has indeed a lot of press freedom. Sad to see so much black and red. Especially so much stuff happening in the middle east. It might switch in Africa in the near future, because of a big young population.
I live in Hungary and the change is very sad
Same in Slovenia.
No it isn't, journalists are evil
@@Patman0074 what? How?
@@Patman0074 Their bosses might have bad intentions, the journalists can't just quit with a family to feed.
@@Patman0074 And the dictator is sent from God herself.
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bad press freedom doesn't necessarily mean the country is a bad place to live, but it would be one part in overall quality of life scoring.
No it's mean that that place is nothing more than a dictatorship
@@GTAandApplechannel singapore pretty low at term of freedom and have very strick rule in society yet this country better than many country that have greater freedom
@@fadhil2831 ok
Thanks for making this Videos i really enjoy every single one of them 👌
Greetings general knowledge from Colombia 😁👍
It's funny how people defining things are the ones defining themselves if favorable rights always
As a Romanian, thank you for the spotlight
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I love how these videos always try to contrast America’s mediocrity against Canadian perfection. The US is the birthplace of press freedom, as the first country to actually incorporate press freedom into it’s constitution. The problem with the press in America is the biased and almost monolithically left/progressive views held by academia, the political elites and the press outlets themselves, there simply isn’t enough diversity of opinion being offered by the various news outlets, consequently we have to get alternative news and views from the internet.
Canada’s media makes the US’s look nonpartisan.
I am still waiting the oldest still inhabited cities in each country Video 😑
Ouch. Finland might be positioned very high in this video, but in your idea for a video, the position would be more or less reversed. When the climate itself is technically unsuitable for human life, it didn't encourage human prosperity in the ancient times.
@@herrakaarmei know that, but still it would be nice to have it as a video.
I suggested this video from two months at the oldest still operating companies, because in that video he made us feel as europe is oldest civilization, while actually the real label of a civilization is cities not companies. The place with the oldest cities is the origin of civilization not the place where the idea of companies poped up!!!
Yes, it would indeed be an interesting video. The fact my home country lacks ancient cities would make it no less interesting. In the first place, the concept of nation states is very young compared to the age of the old cities and old civilisations in general.
I don't share your impression the oldest companies video gave, but I guess impressions are a subjective matter. Japan took the crown anyway.
Thanks for reminding people to remain skeptical. Great video too.
Good videos! Africa did get a little less attention though. Also I like that warning in the beginning, critical thinking is key! Continue the good work :)
As a Bulgarian, I am beyond furious to see other Europeans always criticizing (and focusing on) Poland and Hungary. On a European level, our country is terrifically bad, far worse than them in every aspect, with corruption in astronomical proportions and a couple of mafia bosses possessing EVERYTHING here! That includes 80% of the media, and 100% of the media consumed outside of Sofia, where the poor and illiterate live.
Does Orban sleep next to a drawer full of 500 euro notes, gold bars and a gun? I doubt it, this can happen only in Bulgaria (and Latin America). We do not deserve 112th place, 162nd is more accurate. The news here usually begin with a 5-10 minute videos of our 'Glorious Leader' and his psychotic nonsense, directly copied from Facebook. In the next 5-10 mins some fake 'analysts' tell us how right and glorious the leader is. On all three main TV channels, every day of the week for the past decade, all we have been seeing is the leader and his muppets, spreading horrible lies and disgusting hypocrisy. Thankfully, we have a new caretaker govt from this week.
So please, next time turn more attention to the elephant in the room, and not only repeating the old mantra of "Poland and Hungary".
Im sure that everyone expected Norway, sweden, denmark and Finland at the top :p
Sweden is at the top but this doesn't mean there aren't social issues in the country.
we all know about the grenade bombings and cars on fire problem in Sweden because of migrants that mostly come from the Middle East and Africa.
but hey, "diversity is our strength".
@@LevisH21 yeah and we all know that all thier home countries were destroyed because of french, British, or American policies 🙄🙄
@@مالكالقطيف Huh? When?
Why do islamists always ignore the issues at hand?
Totally agree with the ratings. Here even the general public are legally barred from expressing our own opinions if they do not adhere to the government’s, needless to say the press. We just saw a press getting their assets frozen by the government for “infringing national security”, first time in history.
This place used to be one with the most press freedom, but with a country with one of the lowest rankings dominating the government, there’s really nothing much left.
That is an awesome video! Informative and neutral! Thank you General Knowledge! Cheers from your home country! ^^
In our country India the media is called as godi bikau media meaning Lap , sold medi
Whoa! When did Romania up and move to South America? Looks like there was an edit boo-boo.
I thought the same XD
He is using romania in south america for us to have a perspective on how far away south american countries have to go to reach the yellow zone, since romania is the yellow country with the least points.
@@bitoque5996 hmm true
True but he still does really good work
Interesting topic!
In Bulgaria the situation is indeed very bad, definitely worse than many other countries, but there is something I don't completely agree with in this ranking.
The "free", independent journalists that are generally anti-government, anti-status quo are oppositional but most of them in a very defined and a very specific way, they complain regularly about the situation but they are also very biased themselves in their reporting when they try to portray the situation and when you look objectively at the matter and weigh in on both sides of the spectrum if you are neutral and unbiased.
Yes, in order to be free, everyone should have freedom of expression. In fact journalists use Facebook to express their opinion free, but the national media outlets are state-owned or if private, linked with state ownership, very close to the oligarchs and whoever tries to express their discontent of what the government does, they get prosecuted and the general prosecutor has limitless judicial power, even more so than the ministers and prime minister.
Because some of the Bulgarian public are tied with governmental jobs they aren't keen in seeing changes and while this is not the majority of the population of the country, it is a significant percentage, maybe about 40% and for this reason the bad score that we have gets reproduced year after year. As a person who has lived abroad and have seen the broader definition of freedom, I would love to see my country improve, but in order to have the deterioration stop, journalists need to do a better job themselves too and not be afraid of asking the question they have in mind. Only very few dare and I follow mostly them, they're on an island basically...
So, I guess there's a difference between press being free and press being believable, accurate, non-partisan, etc...
Yes, the same way there is between the availability of a product and its quality.
I am an Indian living in the UAE. It's obvious that the UAE has very limited press freedom (red), but there's no way that India has the same level. There's much more freedom for the press in India than depicted in the map (India should be yellow, not red).
In Brazil, journalism is free.
But a part of the Brazilian media elite complains because the government has cut its funds.
Here everything is political.
The Brazilian population is aware that public money should not go to privileged classes.
Dude, this map is a joke. Saying that press is not free in Brazil is pathetic. It's laughable.
The problem is that the Brazilian government under Bolsonaro works to undermine media credibility by constantly sharing fake news and associating itself with populist/religious media outlets as record, sbt , jovem pan.
There is an error around 4:40. It shows both Chile and Argentina as orange...but the Argentinian exclave at the bottom is colored red.
100% true for India
India, a nation where journalist are fired or thrown in prison for raising questions for people against government and Separatists who keep barging about separating Punjab, Kashmir, Northeast or South outta india are treated like youth leaders.
10:21 Malaysia is the country with the largest drop in press freedom, falling 18 places over the year. This is unsurprising, since the current government coalition ruling Malaysia is NOT voted in by the public, but rather, formed through backdoor negotiations among (former) opposition and cross-over MPs, usurping power from the coalition which won the previous election. As a result, they are more authoritarian in order to hold on to power.
This is purely perception based not factually correct
Welcome to the human experience.
I'd love to see the percentage graph by population rather than just # of countries
Argentine Tierra del Fuego, the Malvinas/Falklands and South Atlantic Islands are in red for some reason.
Which country has a journalist, Julius Assange under prison?
*At **9:54** in this RUclips video:*
Eritrea actually beat out North Korea in 2021 as the country with the least amount of freedom of the press out of all 180 countries/territories in the world!! 😆😆😆
The reason I clicked on the vid is, I see General Knowledge I click on vid, I do not ask silly questions like what is this vid about, When the General says jump I jump!
Actual Journalism is becoming less and less free here in the United States of America, General Knowledge.
Yeah, you had the previous president (Trump) *directly* attacking news and calling them "fake" when they didn't massage his ego while praising press that was directly supportive of him.
He even got his followers to deny facts.
@@Astro_Guy_1 LOL. Ok? What about Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc, etc, etc censoring people they don't like?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This score docent account for the past year I guess
@@Astro_Guy_1 Prove it.
@@Astro_Guy_1 ok and literally twitter instagram tiktok Facebook etc are banning things based on there personal interest the only reliable source of information is actually youtube in the USA and even then it's not good
Just one example, India is enough to prove that the report completely eludes logic. If the world had over a thousand countries Indias rank would have made sense. It appears that people who no longer have the luxury of their opinion counted as the only one are coming up with the rankings.
Reporters without borders is funded by George Soros & given the recent development we exactly know what to make of these rankings.
Yea indian media is not perfect but quite good it shouldn't be so low.
Canada and USA should be green
the press is NOT FREE in the UK and most of Western Europe. For example, the press would never write black people carry knives disproportionately compared to whites and Asians in England. Even though such a statement is true, no organisation or individual would be able to write such a thing with repercussions
Hahaha okay Sweden gets the "Free" rating, yet they can't publish details on crimes in fear of "xenophobia"? Okay.
Exactly what i thought, how shit must all the other countries be if we are ranked number 3?
This is a huge concern - some countries that should have green rankings are disappointingly in yellow, orange or even red.
Australia's main issue is concentration of media ownership - 70% is largely owned by Rupert Murdoch's New Corporation and this has had unending consequences for freedom of speech, influencing votes and political parties, with the media empire heavily backing the incumbent conservative government and going out of their way to constantly decry and defame any opposition. What is worse is that the other two main outlets, 9News Media and SevenWest are also conservative, so the only potential alternatives are tiny independent outlets or the government funded ABC and SBS, which are largely neutral, though both have been steadily been defunded by successive conservative governments to weaken their voice.
I fully expect to see Australia to drop into the orange or even red in the next couple of years.
We neep help here in the Philippines from our president!!!
America should be in the orange section, bordering on the red.
Greenland doesn’t exist... beautiful...
It's under Denmark right now. Maybe not for long.
@@abhiinair why not for long?
@@zefyrisd69 They just had local elections where pro independence party won majority
Anyways, as always, this is a terrific video, General!
Great work on covering this topic!
This map is pretty stupid. It has areas in South America different to its country like falklands red. It also has an Australian island in red and a united Sudan
I want to point out that journalism in Canada have issues.
Only goverment owned journalism gets to be on television and on radio decided by CRTC guidelines which is also goverment owned.
The CRTC now also control what we see on the internet ( Canada now has a laws that let our goverment control what we see and can do online)
Journalism is definitly not free in Canada if you have no place to actualy display what you are trying to show to the world. The only way to find independent journalism is to know it exist and directly search for it.
I don´t know how reliable this index is. It seems that just by the media being verbally attacked and discredited it counts as not being free, like in the case of Brazil. And I don´t know how much cartels actually limit press freedom. I think only the countries laws towards press freedom and how well they are followed should count.
Yes, but how can we ignore journalists being killed
How convenient for you if that were the case.
If someone says journalism is not free in india than I don't know where it is ...they criticize everyone here ...
They can't say anything about pm
@@Rohit-cj6eb are u sure ...?? I see a lot of news about pm ...there are channels against pm and for pm it's upto u what u wanna belive I feel it's quite free
@@GavIsHti ok then name any news channel say anything bad about modi give me link
@@Rohit-cj6eb so many are there man ...ndtv ..print ..quint ...etcc
@@GavIsHti they don't even blame modi in thier life time how can they free like us