Why press freedom is crumbling in Trump's America

When the Guardian revealed highly classified information about the United States government's surveillance programmes in 2013, the British newspaper made a deliberate choice to edit and publish the explosive Snowden files from New York, not London. The First Amendment to the US Constitution provided the "best protection for journalism in the world", its editor, Alan Rusbridger, declared, placing his faith in America's constitutional guarantee of press freedom. Marty Baron, who led the Washington