![]() ![]() It was founded by Rupert Murdoch, who has interests in a plethora of other media outlets such as Fox News. Sky News is owned by the Sky Group, a division of Comcast. Rupert Murdoch’s political leanings are well known. Time and again, bias is not only intentional but aggressive and manipulative. Sometimes this is unintentional, and it’s difficult to be completely unbiased at all times, but often it’s not. The problem with a corporate-owned news source is that there will always be influences from the person, or persons, who own the news source filtering through into what’s being published or broadcasted. ![]() This is especially true of Sky News in Australia, which quickly became one of the largest broadcasting channels there and thus one of the most influential and prone to criticism. Conversely, Sky News has repeatedly been accused of leaning further to the right. ![]() However, BBC News has a reputation for being more aligned to the left. The BBC, at its core, is intended to be completely impartial due to its public ownership. A direct comparison to another supposedly unbiased broadcasting agency is the BBC. Since they are relatively new on the scene, it has not always been as clear where they stand politically as there isn’t as much data. Having a basis in telecommunication, they had already made it clear they are an industry presence before they even started to grow their brand as a reputable news source. Sky News has benefited from the modern age of computing and real-time news being accessible across the world to billions of people. And given many people are still unsure whether they are receiving unbiased news and where their chosen news source sits on the political compass, these laws have had questionable success. Historically, this has led to upticks in propaganda and misinformation. These laws were enacted to prevent broadcasting companies from having too much control over the flow of information. I consent to receiving emails and personalized ads. This means they are required, by law, to be impartial and unbiased with their coverage even when covering sensitive issues that tend to have an obvious right and wrong. Sky News operates under Ofcom broadcasting regulations like all other broadcasting organizations in the United Kingdom. The political stance of Fox News is openly on the right. They do not openly lean towards the left or right, as some news agencies such as Fox News in the United States tend to. Whether Sky News tends to lean one way or the other is usually a matter of personal opinion rather than discernible fact. However, it has also left many individuals unsure where they tend to lean on the political aisle. This has allowed them to quickly become a household name and attain considerable credibility in a short time. While other news organizations have developed alongside modern journalism and the rules that govern it, Sky News broke onto the scene by identifying the pitfalls of their forerunners and avoiding them. An impressive achievement when considering how young the organization is-especially compared to a competitor like the BBC, which has been operating since 1922. Sky News is one of the most influential news broadcasting agencies of the modern day. ![]()
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