Not true.
Most major media outlets around the world confer with state agencies for information, there is some degree of responsibility to protect the lives of individuals and sensitive issues, that does not make them 'State Affiliated' nor 'Propaganda' outlets.
The NYT can and does publish whatever it wants.
More importantly, the NYT is usually fairly factual.
The CBC or BBC are 'state affiliated' though still mostly independent.
RT and Russia One are direct branches of state control - they coordinate their entire 'truth agenda' with FSB, GRU, Duma, Military and other officials to promote the state agenda. They promote mostly bombastic rubbish with little bearing on reality, and call for the invasion and nuclear eradication of Europe and America, specifically to get their own citizens in a frenzy.
Consistent with this policy is the punishment of anyone who publicly disagrees with the 'party line' or talks about the 'war' in any way that is inconsistent with Putin's wishes.
Fortunately, you or I can walk down any street in the USA/West and say almost anything we want about Biden, Bojo or Trudeau, and thankfully nobody will do anything about it.
USAGM is obviously biased, but it's also mostly truthy, and it competes with a a variety of any other voices. On the whole, it's hardly influential. Almost zero Americans for example, are affected by anything they say or do.
And of course, this notion that the DoD employs 50 000 people in 'media' roles is ridiculously false.
American media is painfully biased and narrative driven, it'd be hard to make sense of the world by 'just' watching either CNN, MSNBC or Fox, but thankfully we can watch all three and absorb information from an enormous variety of sources. All with the help 'media bias checkers'.
The information situation between Russia and the United States or any other Western country is not comparable.