Press Freedom

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I don't quite get how the UK is so far down the list. We're below Germany:

Germany fell to 23rd place after a series of incidents, including admission by the state intelligence service of its illegal surveillance of the media for more than a decade, prosecution of two journalists of the magazine Cicero for “aiding to betray state secrets”, death threats to a cartoonist on the newspaper Tagesspiegel and problems of access to data since passage of a freedom of information act (Informationsfreiheitsgesetz).

I'm not saying this out of misplaced patriotism, I'm just surprised, reading the criteria.