Listen, Pause, and Reflect on the state of the media in the United States. Five major corporations control everything we read, listen, and watch. Whether it is film studios, newspapers and television news stations unaccountable corporations are hostile to popular struggles and gear their journalists and writers to portray socialism in a negative light. https://soundcloud.com/thesocialistprogram/capitalist-media-monopolies-are-the-enemy-of-democracy
There are thousands of independent papers published every day across the USA as well as small time TV and internet sources.
You need to correct the title of your post. You are describing freedom of the press. I only wish they were portraying socialism is a negative light.