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Nicaragua's erstwhile Marxist Ortega, who calls his journalist critics "the children of Goebbels" after Hitler propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels, was the subject of a special report over the summer by the New York City-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) for his government's harassment of independent media. His bill would force every journalist to be licensed and signed up with the Sandinista-controlled Nicaraguan Journalists Association, an obscure guild to which only about 20% of reporters in the country now belong...
...even the Sandinista leadership in the National Assembly appears to be backing away from the bill. Indeed, says the CPJ report, Ortega's antimedia animosity "is unusual in the region." And given how things seem to be going in the region, that's saying...
...According to statistics from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Russia is the third most dangerous country to work in for journalists, with 50 killed since 1992. Most recently, in January Anastasiya Baburova, another Novaya Gazeta journalist, was shot and killed alongside human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov in broad daylight in central Moscow. "President Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have pledged to enforce the rule of law by investigating crimes against the press. Nonetheless, attacks on journalists continue to occur with impunity," wrote CPJ director Joel Simon in a letter to President Obama ahead of his trip to Moscow...
...Sources: International Herald Tribune; New York Times (2); AFP; A.P.; OK! Numbers Sources: CPJ (2); Pew/Internet (2); TIME.com (2); AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety; National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
...Source: CPJ (2); Pew/Internet (2); TIME.com (2); AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety; National Highway Traffic Safety Administration