I wish so badly I could edit the title to more accurately reflect what happened. “Police shoot reporter in the back.”

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    On reddit they said these people are like fox News over there so they are pro trump they wouldn’t claim the police did anything wrong but still obviously have to say something as it’s live TV

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      Channel 9 are not quite Fox News level but definitely Fox Lite. They’re careful in their written news articles to only be centre-right, but their video and TV news broadcasts are heavily favoured to right-wing bias and favourable story selection, and always very critical of any left wing interests.

      I’m not sure of their YouTube channel is available worldwide, but if you check that out if you can and you’ll quickly see it’s got all the same talking points as Sky News Australia (News Corp - Murdoch, Sky News is the Aussie version of Fox News).

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        They’re pretty much your bog standard right-wing media. They don’t endorse ridiculous conspiracy theories or the overthrow of democracy like Fox News does in America or Sky News does in Australia, and they basically try to stick to relatively factual reporting. But they also, as you say, bias towards the right in story selection. And they’re relatively low-brow, going for sensationalism rather than good journalism, more often than not.