March 31, 2008
Freedom of the Press
Posted at 6:56 in .
I got a sneak preview of the museum this weekend, which opens to the public officially in mid-April. In one corner there's a giant world map demonstrating the degrees of freedom of the press around the world. Green means a mostly free press. Yellow means a restricted press. The color red means a country where the press is in no way free.
I thought that it's sad that the two countries that the U.S. is currently occupying—Iraq and Afghanistan—show up on the map in red. Perhaps more than anything that measurement shows the failure of our efforts to rebuild the countries: Five years and we can't even paint them yellow.
