I am with you. I live in Venezuela, and one of the problems we got was when the government got too much power over media. Little by little, they were imposing laws that restricted the things that were allowed to say by the press, and when such laws were "broken", newspapers, TV channels and radio stations were shut down. Even international broadcasting networks were cut off air.
That was perfect for them because a huge part of the population didn't believe or had access to the internet (not banned yet), which made them believe everything the government said (until hunger and disease knocked on our doors and woke them up. It was too late then, though).