The difference is more nuanced. The media in reality has never been un-biased. See Herman & Chomsky's Manufactured Consent work (sorry, I've been mentioning it

The difference is more nuanced. The media in reality has never been un-biased. See Herman & Chomsky's Manufactured Consent work (sorry, I've been mentioning it very often). They did a great job proving how mass media has always been subservient to large corporation and governments. The mechanism of how it works is different for each case. > North Korea's news is an extreme example of being laser-focused on inane activities of the leader and routine diplomacy, to the complete exclusion of anything about the daily life of civilians. North Korean model is a more distilled and purified version, obviously to a ridiculous level. But you brought a good point that in some domains like entertainment, weather, non-political stuff, the news are still there. There is no payoff or threat, it does get through. Another thing I noticed that foreign news cover stuff better if they don't have a stake in it - like say Al Jazeera talking about South America for example.