Actually there's more press and more press freedom than at any time in history. What's killing main stream media is the citizen journalist that are fact checking everything they say and the truth is killing their narrative. It couldn't be more obvious than the FCC lastest attempt to harass conservative news outlets and don't forget about all the online sites censoring anything that they don't like.
There's a reason Obama gave away the internet and you can bet that shoe is yet to drop. When the time is right they're going to shut us down, maybe only for a short time, but maybe that's all they need.