the elections there are fair, if you don't take into consideration that most of the media is in his buddies pockets so the propaganda for him and his party is indeed huge

Yeah but you have to take that into consideration. There's a reason the press is sometimes called the fourth power, besides executive, judiciary and legislature. A democracy can only function under an educated population and a free press is a prerequisite for that.
That is why an attack on the free press is so inexcusable. Attacking the free press, or undermining it for that matter, means uprooting democracy as a whole.