This is kind of interesting—press freedoms for basically all the countries of Europe, compared to that of the United States and Russia.
"But wait", some might be asking themselves. "The United States is #1 in all freedoms! How can they be ranked #45 here, behind just about every country in Europe, including ex-Warsaw Pact nations? What kind of garbage criteria are these people using?"
Two things:
lol
A good explanation of this lives here, but basically, it has to do with concentration of media in just a few hands, decline in local news, the rise of ultra-partisan media, and the constant denigration of the media by the fascist right wing that has eroded confidence in the objectivity of mass media.