Mass media reflects a political system globally because news is reported to the public in almost every country in several different ways. In the U.S anyone can watch, hear, or report any news that they wish due to the first amendment. But that is different in other countries, like China or Iran. With authoritarianism governments or dictatorships, like that of China, the media is subservience to the government. In most countries the media is free to report as they wish, but China is by far the strictest with their censorship. The communist country does not want the public to know everything so they censor what the media can cover and tell the public. If any of those rules are broken then severe punishments will be handed out. Typically a pre-publication censorship agent is in every newsroom or media related office, to censor what is being made.
Every country has a different government, therefore they all have different ways they handle the mass media. Depending on what kind of government they have will vary the amount of slack that mass media is given. The type of government a country has can be seen through the media that it allows. As I mentioned earlier, the strict news coverage in China makes it apparent that they have a very strict government. But if you were to compare China’s media to the United States media, it would be very obvious that the U.S allows a lot more stories and situations to be told than that of China.
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