Article source for : The US improved to #48 on the Worldwide Press Freedom Index / Bloggers now threatened as much as journalists in traditional media
Threats must be a legitimizing factor or something....
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=24025
Unrelated and extremely unnecessary tangent:
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