The role of the media and its relations with governmental institutions is now becoming a great call for concern in our society and more needs to be done in order to balance the relationship, being able to apply a cohesive socio- political connections and implant better policies to enable an effective practice of journalism and freedom of expression especially in sub-Saharan Africa. That is why this paper exposed the infringement of press freedom in Cameroon by depicting how the Cameroonian Government employs a combination of legislative, judiciary, administrative and authoritarian policies in line with its military harassment and torture to effectively enforce, monitor and suppress the control of information within the private media organs in the country. Just a read through the sub title from publish or perish to publish and perish can reveal the macabre situation and experience media practitioners are facing in that part of the world, reason being this study having used a survey of close to 200 Media men and women in practice in both the private media (most hard-hit) and the Government media went as far as sampling their opinion through interviews and questionnaires. Moreover, this paper can be viewed as a critical reflection and concept of my research that has been established in a bid to produce answers to the research questions which was designed by this researcher such as, how has governmental control of information affects journalism practice in Cameroon and how do Journalists in Cameroon experience their profession in such an environment. The outcome and results are very obvious which buttressed the fact that, the Cameroonian government uses an amalgamation of the administrative, the executive and the legislative structures and institutions and the forces of law and order (military intimidation, torture and harassment) to effectively enforce, monitor and control information to the detriment of the press. This study however argues that coupled with the government intervention using the above institutions, it has created an environment of fear and panic, scared to publish which could lead to perish in the hands of the military thereby making journalism practice and reporting of news items to be stifled. Consequently the outcome is horrendous and awful leading to imbalance in reporting, lack of professionalism and ethical compromise, also leading to shrinking audiences and mediocre sales of news production and advertisement, not leaving out the lack of a coherent, well-structured guidelines based on consistency both at the critical stages of news collection, verification and dissemination.