http://desicritics.org/ Superior South Asian bloggers on Culture, Media, Politics, Sport, Business, and Technology. en Copyright 2006 by the authors Fri, 3 Nov 2006 18:45:20 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss BC custom software http://desicritics.org/2006/11/02/112347.php#comment-27919 You seem to be missing the forest for the trees. You are looking at what you wish the survey would measure rather than what it actually does measure - press freedoms relative to other countries. If you also look at it over time, you can get a pretty decent and statistically useful picture of how free the media are to report on government. These aspects are not subjective if they are measured over time by the same people groups or companies. 27919@desicritics.org Fri, 3 Nov 2006 18:45:20 EST http://desicritics.org/2006/11/02/112347.php#comment-27638 This is a very insightful article and has explained something that I hadn't much thought of. And to get numbers that span the time and not merely the countries will be very interesting. Yes, to compare one's nation with other countries may be relative and may not exactly indicate a downslide or a upsurge but it does give some vague idea as to where we stand in the world. It tells us how fortunate or unfortunate we are to born and live in the countries we have been destined to. 27638@desicritics.org Thu, 2 Nov 2006 13:11:20 EST