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Great news. I had blocked Sky News from my Youtube account as didn't want to see it's content but was still having Sky News content pushed to me in the app. I

Great news. I had blocked Sky News from my Youtube account as didn't want to see it's content but was still having Sky News content pushed to me in the app. I suspect because of the recent News Media Bargaining Code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Media_Bargaining_Code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Media_Bargaining_Code. Now Sky News has gone completely from my feed. Being Australia and Rupert Murdoch's business, I suspect this won't be the end of it and they'll be some rushed through laws so this never happens again. The News Media Bargaining Code was for propping up Murdoch's businesses after all.

CodeGlitch 5y ago
Does anyone know why sky news UK seems, at least on the surface, far from a right wing rag compared to the Australian version? Edit : something to do with UK broadcasting rules?
- fivefifty 5y ago
  Basically it's to do with ownership, Rupert Murdoch/News Corp actually has nothing much to do with Sky News UK (anymore) but completely owns Sky News Australia. Sky News UK is owned by Sky Group, which also used to own Sky News Australia until a few years ago when it was acquired by News corp. News Corp of course used to own a controlling stake in Sky group and even tried to buy the whole lot at one point but failed and now it's mostly owned by Comcast I think. It's also worth nothing that Sky News Australia also runs a relatively 'normal', fairly respectable news network during the day but then in the evening they switch over to start broadcasting much more right wing conspiracy laden content and pushing this onto digital channels such as Youtube where it then gets picked up and used by more fringe right wingers in the US to legitimise their views (kind of look this 'mainstream' australian news channel is broadcasting this clip, it must be true and the US mainstream media just is covering it up). This is commonly known as 'Sky after dark'. This article from the guardian probably gives a better overview of what they are doing these days and why it is so insidious. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/feb/24/sky-news-australia-is-tapping-into-the-global-conspiracy-set-and-its-paying-off https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/feb/24/sky-n...

CodeGlitch 5y ago

Does anyone know why sky news UK seems, at least on the surface, far from a right wing rag compared to the Australian version? Edit : something to do with UK broadcasting rules?

fivefifty 5y ago
Basically it's to do with ownership, Rupert Murdoch/News Corp actually has nothing much to do with Sky News UK (anymore) but completely owns Sky News Australia. Sky News UK is owned by Sky Group, which also used to own Sky News Australia until a few years ago when it was acquired by News corp. News Corp of course used to own a controlling stake in Sky group and even tried to buy the whole lot at one point but failed and now it's mostly owned by Comcast I think. It's also worth nothing that Sky News Australia also runs a relatively 'normal', fairly respectable news network during the day but then in the evening they switch over to start broadcasting much more right wing conspiracy laden content and pushing this onto digital channels such as Youtube where it then gets picked up and used by more fringe right wingers in the US to legitimise their views (kind of look this 'mainstream' australian news channel is broadcasting this clip, it must be true and the US mainstream media just is covering it up). This is commonly known as 'Sky after dark'. This article from the guardian probably gives a better overview of what they are doing these days and why it is so insidious. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/feb/24/sky-news-australia-is-tapping-into-the-global-conspiracy-set-and-its-paying-off https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/feb/24/sky-n...