VOA慢速英语:关于全球新闻报道的坏消息

You can buy a newspaper nearly everywhere, or read news stories on your phone. Getting news is easy; however,journalists are finding it harder and harder to report it.

你可能在任何一个地方就能买到一份报纸，或者可以从手机上看新闻。人们获得消息的途径非常容易，然而，记者们发现新闻越来越难以报道。

An independent organization called Freedom House has issued a new report about journalists and press freedom around the world. Vanessa Tucker of Freedom House says journalists are increasingly put in jail, accused of crimes or threatened until they stay silent.

一个叫做“自由之家”的独立组织发布一份关于世界范围内记者和新闻出版机构关于新闻报道自由的报道。“自由之家”的Vanessa Tucker说越来越多的记者被关到监狱，被指控犯罪或者受到威胁，直到他们闭嘴保持沉默。

"Unfortunately, the news is very bad. Press freedom suffered a global decline in 2014. It is the worst decline in a decade. Things are getting bad and they are getting bad even faster than they have in the past."

不幸的是，这个消息非常糟糕。新闻自由在2014遭遇了全球性的衰退。事情变得越来越糟，甚至比过去衰退速度更快。

The Freedom House report is called Freedom of the Press 2015. The report calls the press in Latin America only partly free, or not free at all. It says North America has a free press; however, it criticizes police in the United States for treating journalists harshly during protests in Ferguson, Missouri.

“自由之家”的这份报道叫做2015新闻自由。报道呼吁拉丁美洲新闻自由，该地区仅有部分地区，或者没有新闻自由一说。该报道指出北美地区保持着新闻自由，然而对美国密苏里州弗格森暴乱期间对记者的不当之举提出了批评。

Freedom House says 5 percent of the population in Asia-Pacific has access to free media, 3 percent in sub-Saharan Africa, and only 2 percent in the Middle East and North Africa.

“自由之家”称亚太地区有5%的人口能够享有媒体自由，3%在撒哈拉以南非洲地区，中东和北非地区仅占2%。

China's score was the worst since the 1990s. The report says officials there are jailing journalists and tightening control over media outlets.

中国的得分是自1990年代以来最低的，报道称官方有关押记者和加紧控制媒体报道的行为。

And in Russia, Vanessa Tucker of Freedom House says officials campaigned strongly against independent voices last year. As a result, she says, people in Russia do not know what is really happening in conflicts like in Ukraine.

在俄罗斯，“自由之家”Vanessa Tucker说去年时候官员们举行活动强烈反对独立声音。她说，事情的结果就是俄罗斯人根本不知道冲突中到底发生着什么，例如乌克兰冲突。

Freedom House says growing threats to the media challenge democratic values around the globe.

“自由之家”称对媒体威胁的日益增加会对全球民主价值观提出挑战。

I'm Kelly Jean Kelly.

Meredith Buel reported this story. Kelly Jean Kelly adapted it for Learning English. Hai Do was the editor.

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Words in This Story

journalists – n. people who collect, write, and edit news stories

press – n. newspapers, magazines, and radio and television news reports

independent – adj. not controlled by other people

values – n. strongly held beliefs about what is valuable, important or acceptable