Do we know a shit?

Didn't believe my eyes and my ears today. I was watching Aktuellt (a Swedish news-show) about the so called ethnical problems reported from the big country in the east. The way it was reported made me think that all critical reporters had left for summer vacation. So I checked the web and a famous news paper from a large country in the west.

First the journalists reports about the (eastern) government that restricts spreading of information from the public. People can not upload videos to YouTube, they can not use Twitter or other user generated content to spread their witnesses about what they experience (what is normally refered to as the truth, although it's by no means some sort of objective information). The professional journalists tell us how they have been fed with a story that the government want to have spread. They were even taken on arranged tours..

OK. Now everybody should realize that the information they have receieved and what they have seen can not be trusted. At all.

The next that happens is that all media reports more or less exactly the story they are told!! (as far as I understand)
Isn't that disappointing and scaring? Why tell a story at all then (if you know the information should not be trusted)? Why not just report "we don't know a shit"?

I am just imagining what it would be like to experience something horrible, but not being allowed to communicate it. That the story is rewritten completely by someone, and then being repeated in all news and media across the world. I believe that is happening all the time.. don't you?