A lot of things have a happen of not being reported.

This is true in a number of countries. When opposition papers reported things, they were hit, hard. Investigated for all sorts of allegations--even if found baseless, they had their files removed, computers confiscated, workplaces severely interrupted. You try running a newsroom where every few weeks your files are rummaged through and trashed, your hard drives vanish, and for most of a day you're sitting on the sidewalk trying to meet deadlines. You learn what not to do.

Russia did this in the early '00s under Putin. "Inakomyslie" is a crime if media do it. Not reporting "correctly" on Crimea, it's suggested by official sources, is "inakomyslie." It's a bear to translate. It looks like it means "thinking differently," and does mean that. "Inak" means "differently, in another way"; "mys(l)-" means "think"; the -ye suffix makes it into a noun. But inakomyslie also stands as a synonym for "dissident-thinking" or "heresy", "deviant-thinking", not "politically correct" thinking. Anything that suggests you disagree with approved means of thinking, whether political, religious, social, economic, etc. Once the PTB have uttered its dicta, anything else is "inakii". Gay rights is inakomyslie. Crossing yourself in the wrong direction is inakomyslie. Thinking Lenin was an ogre is inakomyslie. Thinking Stalin was bad was inakomyslie; next day, it was not and writers were told to expose Stalin. There's always a learning curve when a new topic arises. So some media sources objected to the Russian incursion into the Crimea (they weren't so easily fooled by the intentional absence of a label saying, "I am a Russian" on the uniforms) and had to be taught that supporting Ukraine is also inakomyslie. They know now that such inakomyslie might be tolerated, barely, but they'd better watch it. Inakomyslie is not for the faint of heart in some cultures.

Venezuela set the line in a different place. But if you don't publish the truth, as defined by a moderately capricious government board, you run afoul of the law. You learn what "the truth" is and if "the truth" and the truth diverge, how much you can get by with. You are the enemy of the government, not just a political opponent in the arena of ideas.

China was open about it. Egypt was like Russia, but decided to go the more repressive route in the last 6 months. Ukraine's open, still, with a wrinkle: 90% of cable operators have dropped Russian info-media rebroadcasts, even if a number of sources still echo the pro-Russian viewpoint. It's okay to be pro-Russian, even more okay to publish in Russian; just make sure that the news writers and readers are Ukrainian citizens.

that tell us Crimea 'has always been Russian'. Always means 'after the ethnic cleansing and the settlement of Tatar lands. Always means since the boxcars were filled with the indigenous locals in 1944. Within living memory.
The fact that this part of history is left out of some folk's narrative is unacceptable and it is propaganda and it is similar to denial of other human rights abuses of minority populations who were put on boxcars.
No matter what a person thinks of the current situation, the past wrongs should not be disappeared for the sake of anyone's agenda.

informing readers on geopolitical issues of concern is vital for a well informed electorate, please avoid Neo-Con propaganda or terminology ..... Thanks in advance.

Strawman is not required either.