How does mass media reflect a political system globally?

The countries political system often reflects how they censor and run the mass media coming into and leaving the country. China, for example, is a dictatorship where the people cannot vote for their leader or speak bad about him in public. This is reflected in the fact that the government has complete control over what the public can and cannot see on the internet and television. An interesting thing to do is to search on Google for Tiananmen Square and look at the pictures of the massacre of college students by the government which occurred there. Then go to Google China and search the same thing to see what the Chinese would see if they were to search for the major event and all you see is images of the square with tourists and nothing bad happening because the government has banned those images from Chinese servers and, therefore, Chinese eyes.

Another country who's mass media reflects their political system is Colombia, where anarchy reigns. The radios in Colombia are filled with pleas to release kidnapped family members and friends so that it sounds like an episode of Criminal Minds, the sad part is, it's all completely real. In a country filled with chaos and little rules, people are kidnapped every day and the radios hardly play music as they are filled with these desperate pleas for mercy. In the 1990s 31 journalists were killed because of their job with another 16 who's deaths may or may not have been related to the news they reported. In an average year six to ten journalists are kidnapped. These two countries prove, if the government has complete control, like China, the mass media is completely owned by them and if the government has no control, as in Colombia, then the mass media has no purpose but to invoke fear in its citizens.