It is easy for the media to cover friendly government: the test of good media is in covering enemy countries

Look at this lousy reporting on North Korea:  "North Korea publicly executed around 80 people earlier this month, many for watching smuggled South Korean TV shows, a South Korean newspaper reported Monday.  The conservative JoongAng Ilbo cited a single, unidentified source, but at least one North Korean defector group said it had heard rumours that lent credibility to the front-page report."