Freedom House’s annual evaluation of the state of freedom of the press around the world has found freedom of the press declining on every continent:
(CNN) — “Global declines in press freedom” persisted last year, with setbacks highlighted in Israel, Italy, Taiwan, Hong Kong and elsewhere across the world, an annual survey said Friday.
Freedom House, a nongovernmental organization that supports democracy and freedom of the media, said in its annual press freedom survey that “negative trends” outweighed “positive movements in every region, particularly in the former Soviet Union, the Middle East and North Africa.”
“This marked the seventh straight year of overall deterioration. Improvements in a small number of countries — including bright spots in parts of South Asia and Africa — were overshadowed by a continued, relentless assault on independent news media by a wide range of actions, in both authoritarian states and countries with very open media environments.”
Israel — once the only country to be consistently rated free by the group in the Middle East and North Africa — was ranked as “partly free” because of the Gaza conflict.
The report cited “increased travel restrictions on both Israeli and foreign reporters; official attempts to influence media coverage of the conflict within Israel; and greater self-censorship and biased reporting, particularly during the outbreak of open war in late December.”
The worst rated? Myanmar, Cuba, Eritrea, Libya, North Korea and Turkmenistan.
译文:
新闻自由不断下降
自由之家每年对世界各国新闻自由的评定发现,新闻自由在各大洲都不断下降；
（有线新闻电视网）——在周五的节目中报道一份年度调查报告，“全球新闻自由下降”持续到去年，自由下降特别突出的是以色列、意大利、台湾、香港和世界其他地方。
自由之家，是一个非政府组织，它支持民主和媒体自由，在年度新闻自由的调查显示，“负面的趋势”盖过了“在每一个地区，特别是在前苏联，中东和北非的积极运动”。
“这标记连续第七年的全面恶化。在少部分国家有所改善——包括南亚和非洲的部分亮点的地区——独裁国家和有着非常开放的媒体环境的国家，它们都被独立新闻媒体广泛运动的连续的无情的攻击蒙上了阴影。
以色列——曾经一贯被评为是中东和北非地区的唯一自由的国家——由于“加沙冲突”，所以被评为“部分自由”。
报道引述“对以色列和外国报道者增加旅游限制；官方尝试影响对以色列内部冲突的媒体报道量；更大幅度的自我检查和有偏见的报道，特别是在去年十二月下旬野战爆发期间。”
哪个国家的新闻自由最糟糕？缅甸，古巴，利比亚，北朝鲜，土库曼斯坦。