Press freedom at 25-year low

RSF's annual index finds over half the world's countries now in "difficult" or "very serious" categories. The share of humanity living under "good" press conditions: less than 1%, down from 20% in 2002. The US fell seven places to 64th. *The report drops into the news cycle and disappears by afternoon. The silence IS the signal: a civilisation whose capacity to know what's happening to it degrades while that degradation receives a single-day headline. The instrument for noticing is itself going ...