I thought most of our news here in SA was at least to a degree independent, but it turns out it rarely is, and it's like that in most places. That's just because of how information works, not because journalists are bias and picking a specific side. The majority of major news companies in the US, do tend to lean more left, on the other side it's basically Fox and a hand full of publications. So when journalists pick up news coming from the States the narrative is kind of one sided, purely because of the majority consensus. A good example of this would be the news of the PS5 that came out yesterday, only one journalist spoke to CEO of Sony, every news article across the world in based on that one source. Now if there was conflicting information, most would just go with the majority. Also let's not forget the entire business model is based on clicks, which doesn't help.