> with private media in this country having a financial motivation to knowingly lie is pretty reprehensible.

That can be balanced-out with other media outlets voicing other side.

And... not attacking China's great political unification, having and using politics to censor out a lot of government corruption that ultimately hurts its own people... doesn't look great

(no 'political balance-of-power' + no freedom-of-speech/press + no-election: the government officials can de facto do whatever they want, from small things like accepting bribes for not noticing fake-food factories, to uh... ok I'll stop now.