'Attitude toward Occupy journalists filled with contempt'

Sat Jan 28, 2012 7:16PM GMT


The United States has fallen to 47th in press freedom rankings “In part because of the crackdown on journalists as well as activists in the Occupy movement.”

“The attitude towards people covering the Occupy movement was filled with contempt in the same way that the attitude towards occupiers was driven by contempt,” Danny Schechter, editor of Mediachannel.org, told Press TV's U.S. Desk on Saturday.

The crackdown “has become a national story because the same pattern seems to have taken place in many places.”

The annual report by Reporters Without Borders was released on Wednesday, showing the United States fell 27 points on the Press Freedom index.

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