Press freedom at 25-year low
Latest Processing Gap
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 blind, and the blindness is not noticed.
Appearances
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 blind, and the blindness is not noticed.