You know the first step of pretty much every authoritarian government is to limit the media freedom in the country and to tightly control the narrative in the media.
Here’s the thing, with media organisations such as the BBC, Al Jazeera etc the funding source is clear and obvious and you can factor in an appropriate degree of editorial spin where applicable. Now, if your evening news programme was “brought to you in association with Poca-Pola” the giant soft drink company… do you think they’d even run that story about the direct link between consumption of carbonated drinks and obesity? If your technology programme is sponsored by the tech giant Googosoft do you think they’d run that feature on how good Linux can be? No, they wouldn’t. When media exists only to make profit that is their only goal - profit.
Again, whilst your opinion is not without merit, I’d still prefer to encounter spun news stories than to not encounter them at all, and, if you want a global picture of what’s happening all over the world then there isn’t much choice but to read the wires (Reuters, AP etc) or visit a global broadcaster.