Centennial Honors College
Western Illinois University
Undergraduate Research Day 2014
Poster Presentation
Argentina: Government and cultural effects on press freedom
Sean Ellis
Faculty Mentor: Yong Tang
Journalism
The purpose of this study is to use the press freedom rankings from Reporters without
Borders, Freedom House, IREX, and Committee to protect Journalists to compare and
contrast how Argentina and the United States have protected/undermined press
freedoms in the time since the 911 attack. While the 911 attack was an attack on the
U.S. it is a key event in press freedom around the world. The study examines the
similarities in the forms of government in the U.S. and Argentina, how those
governments act or fail in the interest of protecting journalists and a free and open
press. During the course of the study it became clear that there were similarities as well
as differences in how the governments of the U.S. and Argentina acted to protect
journalists and freedom of the press.