I don't think anyone here has mentioned the absolutely horrible passport requirements now required for foreign journalists coming to the U.S. I'm an American now living in the UK and my partner is a British journalist who must now pay some ridiculous amount just to accompany me back to the States.. let alone do work there. The rigamarole here at the Embassy to do all this is truly mindboggling and degrading.. but necessary.

We are becoming a Big Brother state... very sad to see what has happened since 9/11.