Remember when the US was touted as the shining example of freedom to the rest of the world? Yeah, not so much anymore.

The U.S. media is the 24th most free in the world – and dropping

Freedom of the press has declined for the eighth year in a row, according to Freedom House’s annual report. And while the media has focused on the lack of media freedoms in such places as China and Venezuela, they’ve virtually ignored the U.S. position – No. 24 (PDF).

And following in the footsteps of the Bush Administration, the Obama Administration seems intent on making the media less free.