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     There are many countries throughout the world where the media is very directly controlled by the government and this is well documented. Some of these countries include North Korea, China, Eritrea, and Russia to name just a few. What about the countries that are not as obvious about their censorship? Is  using the media as a weapon against the populace not the same? Lets talk about the Authoritarian Theory of Mass Communication and its concepts. So the basic jist of the whole thing is that the media is subservient to the state as the state is more important than the individual which is true in a dictatorship, but also somewhat true even in democratic governments. Now not to veer to far into conspiracy theory land of course, but the U.S. preaches about its freedom of speech but yet there is quite a lot of censorship to go around. Based on the fact that news outlets have a political skew is one such example, this political skew means that any news will b...

   Many countries in Asia suffer from over-bearing governments that restrict the flow of media down to what is shown or not shown or what is talked about. Thus the creation of Radio Free Asia in 1951 under the name of "Committee for Free Asia" broadcasting anti-communist propaganda to China. RFA broadcasted from facilities in Manilla in the Philippians, Dacca and Karachi in Pakistan, as well as from Tokyo, there may have been other sites but those were not listed. Starting in 1955 RFA went off the air followed shortly after CIA involvement ended as well. The formally covert run RFA came under the wing of the Board of International Broadcasting.  The current Radio Free Asia is a US-funded organization, incorporated in March 1996, and began broadcasting in September 1996. Although senators debated a name change, Richard Richter, the then president of Radio Free Asia, was instructed to change the name back from Asia-Pacific Network to Radio Free Asia, as "we must have the c...