[guesswest]

I agree with the basic point here, that erosons of press freedom in recent years in the US is a huge problem, and one that's becoming very noticable in terms of content to anyone that travels to and from the US regularly and gets to see the contrast. But I have to point out that it's a bit disingenuous bolding 'Botswana, Croatia and Tonga' to show this. The fact that a country is poor has no necessary relevance here - I'm in fact surprised Tonga isn't rated higher since I'm guessing its press corp consists of one guy with a notepad.