“Freedom of the press in the Middle East? Only in Israel.” That’s what a poster matter-of-factly stated to us on a recent train ride to the mills. Download a copy for your living room at Blue Star PR – we’re sure it will make a great conversation piece.
Reporters sans Frontieres reports Israel does indeed enjoy a kind of press freedom previously unheard-of in their parts. And considering the US recently made RsF’s frontpage for letting journalist and blogger Josh Wolf rot away in prison for over 200 days, maybe the laud over Israel’s achievements are actually thinly-veiled laments for our own slow slide into the cool iron arms of Big Brother.
