1. There is no government media.
2. We have never had a more free and independent press than we do now. Which creates part of the problem because a lot of it (sadly, mostly on the conservative side) is simply not credible.
3. No. It really isn’t. The MSM is what it’s always been: corporate owned, depending on ratings more than any other factor, centrist, jingoistic and conservative (culturally, not necessarily politically) but generally filled with earnest people who really do try to report the news fairly and without bias.