As someone who has travel something around the world I would say yes, they control what you see and hear, and doing so they control what you feel and think. If

As someone who has travel something around the world I would say yes, they control what you see and hear, and doing so they control what you feel and think. If I want to make you angry or terrorize I could display on TV some images and you will feel like I desire(Boston Marathon killed less people than the number of dead people in Irak or traffic accidents in any city in a week). Do you believe that North Koreans think they are not free? or Chinese by the way? Most of US media is controlled by a few, and people (specially in the States) watch TV more than talk with their friends. In Europe you see the same but within each country with dominant language(German, Spanish, French, Russian...). They all believe they live in the best country in the world, while they actually don't know other countries.