Government can control all the news that filters through to the people. It will only approve of programs that celebrate it and block anything that is critical. In such an environment all media is controlled so the people never know what is really going on in their own country or in the world. Their ignorance is not their fault. It is the fault of an evil/paranoid government which is incapable of taking any criticism at all without hitting back hard. How many countries live under such restrictions?