Carlo C. wrote:
> Italy is the only European country to be downgraded in the last year from the
> category of "countries with free press" to countries where press freedom is
> "partial".
> 
> The Best are the nations of Northern Europe and Scandinavian countries: Iceland,
> Finland, Norway, Denmark and Sweden (top five worldwide).
> 
> No controversy here, I believe that *Freedom House* says the right.
> I am an italian *partially free*, but I *already knew it*.
> 
> Current situation? Maybe this:
> #declare Italy = (1 / Anything);
> 
> (I want to be a Danish, and drink freely the good Danish beer in the long
> Scandinavian afternoons). :-)

The reason you regard the foreign presses as freer than you own is 
because you don't live in the nations they cover.  I hear reports that 
the Swedish news organizations aren't terribly free, either.

Regards,
John

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