While discussing U.S. rankings

The U.S. is now ranked 53rd in the freedom of the press.
We are still above Togo, Iran, and China.

The United States (53rd) has fallen nine places since last year, after being in 17th position in the first year of the Index, in 2002. Relations between the media and the Bush administration sharply deteriorated after the president used the pretext of “national security” to regard as suspicious any journalist who questioned his “war on terrorism.”

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