A few years ago, I was lucky enough to be sent on a media junket to Sri Lanka.
During dinner, one of our guides mentioned that the news in the local newspapers about the civil war in the north of the country was completely untrustworthy. It was all heavily censored, he said, and no one in Sri Lanka with a modicum of intelligence actually believed any of it.
Then he turned to a Japanese member of our group, a former reporter who had worked at one of Japan's major newspapers. "Does the news ever get censored in Japan?" he asked.