reaction to Ostrovsky reading

Reading this article about the TV coverage of Beslan just makes me more grateful to live in a country where our media is not government owned and controlled! I cannot believe how little they covered it. And I also couldn't believe the incensitivity of the Russian networks to air hostage movies in light of the whole situation. I liked the quote from the television reviewer Irina Petrovskaya, "One of the most disturbing lessons of Beslan is the readiness of the television once again to become the re-translator of official lies. Ten years of democracy in Russia turned out to be not enough to create freedom of speech. And to a large degree the responsibility for this rests with the media and the journalists."
I think that is what happens when the government wants to and controls the media, they can broadcast any lies they want simply because they control the flow of information. It reminds me of John Mayer's song ,Waiting on the World Change, in the line where he says,
"when you trust your television
which you get is what you got
cause when they own the information
oh they can bend it all they want"
Even though there is controversy in the US about media conglomerates and private ownership of media, Im would rather have that then get deliberate false reporting delivered from the government.