I feel we’ve already been over this topic? But Sky News used to have a national news bulletin every evening, but shock jocks and RWNJs are their preferred model at nights now. And whether we like it or not, it probably draws in more viewers and clicks than a “straight” news would at that time of night.
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Correct me if I’m wrong but the only time there’s a news bulletin in the evening outside of like 11pm is NewsNight on Saturdays?
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Brings this to mind … The lady doth protest too much, methinks - Wikipedia 
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NewsNight starts at 9:30pm on Fridays, 6pm on Saturdays (but then there’s 2 and a bit hours of replays) and then 10:30pm on Sundays.
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But the rest of the media is left leaning. Sky/Fox News will continue to cater for a conservative/right-leaning viewership while ever the rest of them remain left.
It’s a common sense business model on News Corp’s behalf.
Hard lefty alert!
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When the Liberals start acting conservative then they might have a chance. The Liberals lose when they go Labor-lite. Not one state Liberal/Coalition party in Australia have been remotely conservative. Turnbull and Schmo were also moderate rubbish on a federal level.
Moderate ‘rubbish’ that won elections, whether you like to admit it or not. Plus Scomo was hardly moderate. He’s a conservative that was only covered-up by the fact that he was part of the Centre-Right faction.
Though I hear he’s good mates with your pals on Sky so perhaps that’s where his next pay cheque will come from if he decides to quit politics as reported.
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Except they don’t cater for that. They cater for the extreme far right that tends to favor authoritarianism and facism.
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Sky’s problem for a Conservative audience in Australia is that the culture war stuff that works so well for Fox, just doesn’t have the same level of traction among voters, owing to the different turn out the base voter dynamics when you don’t have compulsory voting.
If that pushes the Liberals to the right to appease the small audience watching them, then it will just further cause the leakage to the Teals - the undecided labor/liberal flip flopper might decide some elections at the margins, but the core voter base shifting as the social conservatives gain prominence in the Liberals and push away socially moderate fiscal conservatives is the ultimate undoing, and an own goal from Sky.
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This is rubbish that’s just regurgitated from America and has no basis in facts or reality in Australia. Nine, Seven and Newscorp control pretty much the entire media landscape in this country. You’re dillusional if you think there’s “left wing bias” in Australia.
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You mean, the reality?
There is some bias in the media. There will always be when there is two ideals being pushed towards your eyes with clesr manipulative bullshit. Make no mistake that media does play bias when it suits them. Ever heard of thr moral panic theory ? Especially when it comes to crime and political reporting.
Not saying its all lefty bias but you cant deny when you really analyse media reports that there is some bias.
Thats what I have seen from all media outlets.
However Sky News is the full boat of Bias and extremisim and misreporting the facts. They have made it their life .ission 
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The only media bias is $
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Ah yes, that notorious leftist Peter Costello, who owns half of Australia’s newspapers and served as John Howard’s Treasurer for more than a decade. Real pinko commie, that one.
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What if, and this is just speculation, there was a poster deliberately trolling this thread deliberately parodying ultra right is right.
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Broadcasters breach rules in COVID and climate coverage
Foxtel will tighten its controls over third-party content on its service following breaches of industry codes of practice found by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) on both the Outsiders program and on its Daystar channel.
The ACMA found that a number of Outsiders programs broadcast on Foxtel between October and December 2021 breached the requirements in the subscription TV code of practice around accuracy and clearly distinguishing factual material from commentary and analysis in relation to climate-related coverage.
The ACMA considered 80 allegations across 10 Outsiders episodes and selected a sample of program content in its investigation to assess against the relevant code of practice.
ACMA Chair Nerida O’Loughlin said the Australian community expects factual material to be accurate and for commentary to be clearly distinguishable from the reporting of factual material.
“The program has an obligation to its audience to clearly separate fact from comment. Across a number of its episodes Outsiders failed to do so and did not present news content either accurately or fairly,” Ms O’Loughlin said.
In a separate investigation, the ACMA found broadcasts of the Ministry Now and Joni Table Talk programs aired on the Daystar channel on Foxtel in September 2021 included comments which breached accuracy rules for news and current affairs programs under the Subscription Narrowcast Television Codes of Practice 2013.
The ACMA found the Joni Table Talk and Ministry Now programs included inaccurate statements relating to COVID-19 vaccines including about the regulatory approval process, the use of alternative COVID-19 treatments, the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines, and that vaccines may cause infertility and miscarriage.
In relation to both Outsiders and the content on the Daystar channel, Foxtel submitted that it had limited control over the broadcasts as they are distributed by third-party providers under agreements which require all content to comply with Australian laws and regulations.
Ms O’Loughlin said broadcast licensees are ultimately responsible for what goes to air, including content that is supplied or purchased from another provider.
“Broadcasters cannot outsource their compliance responsibilities to a third party. It is important that Australian audiences are able to trust that the information presented in current affairs programs is accurate and factual, particularly when national health issues are concerned,” Ms O’Loughlin said.
As a result of the ACMA’s findings in both the Outsiders and Daystar matters, Foxtel has expressly acknowledged to the ACMA that as licensee it is responsible for meeting its code and statutory obligations with respect to all material that is broadcast, even if it is material supplied by a third-party provider.
Foxtel will also review the systems it has in place to ensure that content sourced from third-party providers is compliant with the code. Foxtel will report back to the ACMA within four months on the outcome of this system review, including the staff training, processes and arrangements it has undertaken to ensure future compliance with the code.
The ACMA also found that the same Outsiders programs aired on regional commercial broadcasters WIN and SCA breached the requirements in the commercial TV code of practice around accuracy and the representation of viewpoints.
WIN and SCA will report to the ACMA within four months on the measures they are taking in response to this investigation to comply with the relevant parts of the commercial TV code of practice in relation to programs supplied by third parties.
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I’m shocked that outsiders had programs full of lies and misinformation. So uncharacteristic.
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I’m sure their responses will be riveting.
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