The Texas Observer, December 1st, 2006
We're Americans, so we like to be No. 1, right? Not only do we like to be-we expect to be.
And since we are, by gollies, the Land of the Free, it's a given that in all things liberty-ish we are Numero Uno in the world, right? After all, we're America, we're the richest, we're the best, we're the freest, we're... number 53? Yes. The watchdog group Reporters Without Borders has just released its 2006 Worldwide Press Freedom Index, ranking nations on their records of government censorship, threats, intimidation, jailings, and physical reprisals against journalists. Our good ol' U.S. of A. did no...
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