How does mass media reflect a political system globally?

Mass Media definitely reflects political systems. The best way to show this is to look at examples of different political structures. First, looking at a libertarian society, the United States is a free and open political system. Here we see all the good and horrible things that come to us through the media. We know what is happening to our soldiers in Iraq and we know what is happening in China and Russia and anywhere in the world we care to know about. Looking at the Middle East is a different story all together. Some places in the Middle East are censored to certain political things and other parts are not. Radio and television stations are careful not to show certain things. Some stations are also not censored at all but they have to sneak around in order to report the censored materials. Audiences must change stations and passwords in order to keep up with these station and the news they so desperately want to hear. Finally, China is a polar opposite of a free political system. They are completely censored and it is very difficult to get any news from the outside at all. They are even more strict than anywhere in the Middle East.