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We might want to differ between publicly owned broadcasters and 'state run media'. The BBC is certainly impacted by considerations of the British power structure and UK nationalism, to an extent, but its news organizations hew much closer to actual journalism than their American private clown counterparts -- and they are in the midst of arguments all the time about the role of media, sources, etc.
The same goes for the CBC, or Deutsche Welle, or Radio Netherlands, or even the Voice of America -- also U.S. government supported -- which are routinely trustworthy versus the clownish U.S. commercial broadcasters and the insanely timid, right wing intimidated PBS / NPR.
