Don't worry if you're confused, your TV will tell you which is which. You know, just like state TV in North Korea or Cuba does. The idea is to be more like them, right? At least that's what I'm seeing here.
US media has many serious faults, but it is not state-controlled as it is in Russia, China and North Korea.
They are not the same.
“They don’t try to win the argument,” said [former U.S. ambassador to Russia, Michael A.] McFaul, now director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. “It’s to make everything seem relative. It’s kind of an appeal to cynicism.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/russian-prop...
What you describe isn't something that happens. The U.S. government doesn't control American news outlets. If it did, I imagine that Trump would have received a lot less coverage and Obama quite a bit less criticism!