Additionally, the state-controlled media may only report on legislation after it has already become law to stifle any debate.

The official visits to Iraq are exhaustively covered by the state-controlled media.

There was no other channel of communication since the state-controlled media would not give the students a hearing.

In his native Zimbabwe, however, he was called a "traitor" by the state-controlled media.

In return, the party and the cleric were attacked by the state-controlled media.

But in the old days, they could regulate how their own people saw the conflict through their state-controlled media.

Reports from state-controlled media said he was "permitted to retire", but did not give any reason.

Those sentiments have been amplified by Russian officials and the largely state-controlled media here.

In Egypt yesterday, the state-controlled media gave the sentencing little or no coverage.

The lack of coverage in the domestic state-controlled media was criticised.