You must not know how lobbying and money works in America. It doesn’t have to be “state controlled” to be controlled by the state. Russia has private media also, they just have to step over many stories about the government to avoid getting the doors busted in by the tax man and police. Are you really that naive?
And yet none of this conspiracy has been blown wide open by competing networks or independents?
Lobbying is private groups trying to control the gov't, not the gov't trying to control private groups.
Are you suggesting that a business like Faux news posts all of the lies and the Republican ass-svcking that they do at the behest of the government?
Exactly who does the tax man go after when a story is published about the gov't? The author? Editor? Office manager? Rupert Murdoch?