Freedom of Press? - ON HEALTHCARE REFORM?

According to the Connecticut Coalition for Universal Health Care, the United States is the only industrialized nation not to have universal healthcare coverage to its citizens. In 1993 Bill Clinton seeked to install such a system called a multi-payer health care system that would focus on the center of the healthcare crisis of America: COST and COVERAGE. Today, over 40 million Americans lack healthcare coverage and many more millions are with inadequate healthcare insurance coverage. However the media, particularly conservative stations such as FOX labeled the plan instead of described it. As a result people were told that this was "socialized medicine," and as a result of polls, most opposed it. Criticism of lack of coverage by companies in a few ads were hardly or never aired because of the threat of lawsuit by the company for "libel and slander". Is this freedom of press? Or is press controlled by the market?