That piece I circulated over Putin's indisputable repressive and comprehensive crackdown on media and journalists in his Russia today must have really struck a raw nerve with you now you're trying to paint the Yanks/West with weak offerings when there's little comparison with the relative free, open and diverse media and press in Yankeeland and/or most other Western Liberal Democracies. It's not even a race. You're flogging a dead horse....or a few remnant scattered bones of what was one. Here's another recounting of some facts to further stimulate your appetite.