In the 2025 Press Freedom Index of Reporters without Borders, the US ranks 57! Below all EU countries apart from Trump’s favorite Hungary (#68).

This situation has seriously deteriorated under Trump. For how long will the US remain a free country?

Extreme rightwing media - Fox News & Newsmax etc. - have established a captive world of lies.

By suing ABC & CBS for no good reason but extracting millions $ & subordinating them, Trump has undermined the credibility also of other US TV news.

The owners of the Washington Post & the LAT gave up to Trump last year. Oddly, the last soldier standing is Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal.

I suspect news seekers will have to migrate in two directions: YouTube et al & foreign news.

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