Reporters Without Borders has never counted so many violent attacks against journalists in Germany. This has consequences for reputation: The Federal Republic is falling in international comparison – again.
The organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has again downgraded Germany in the global “Press Freedom Ranking”. The Federal Republic now ranks three places lower in 16th place – behind countries such as Lithuania, Jamaica and the Seychelles.
The ranking list will be published this Tuesday in Berlin. RSF justified Germany’s slipping with several negative factors. “Three reasons are central to this development: legislation that endangers journalists and their sources, declining media diversity and, above all, violence during demonstrations.” With 80 verified cases, the number of violent attacks was higher than at any time since documentation began in 2013. According to the organization, a negative record was already set last year with 65 cases.
“Most of the attacks (52 out of 80) occurred during protests of the “lateral thinking” spectrum against corona measures, in which violent neo-Nazis and extreme right-wing groups regularly took part. Media workers were spat on, kicked, knocked unconscious. Those affected often complained about the lack of support from the police. In addition, 12 attacks by the police on the press were documented.” In addition, there is a high number of unreported cases. According to the analysis, acoustic attacks with football fanfares were new in 2021.
Germany dropped out of the top group for the first time last year. Since then, the situation of press freedom has been in force in our country
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A comparable methodology has been used since 2013.
At the bottom of the 180 countries in the comparison is China in 175th place, “among other things due to almost all-encompassing Internet censorship and surveillance as well as propaganda at home and abroad”. In Myanmar (176) and Iran (178) things look similarly grim.
Three totalitarian regimes are at the bottom, according to RSF: Turkmenistan (177), Eritrea (179) and North Korea (180): «All three have in common that the respective government has complete control over all information flows; There doesn’t seem to be room for improvements in press freedom under the current regimes.” At the top of the ranking are Norway (1), Denmark (2) and Sweden (3).
Source: Stern

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