Not to also sound like a conspiracy theorist: but Its also possible the mainstream channels who are at fault, they refuse to have anything to associate with un-australian content as long as other forms of media exist
It is almost their job to keep the audience dumbed down and restricted in their horizons to know anything else other than Australian
Case in point, overexposing the coverage of the Australian Athletes on the Olympics, when athletes from all across the world in all kinds of other sports showcase amazing feats...
Also I think it is part of an Australian media interest to stop people seeing 'the other side', or supporting the other side, ie they only want to see Australia winning in the sports, I guess at least the coverage is not North Korean style, at least they show the whole game even though Australia goes down, or... what was that word... LOSES!?
The only main global event that I see is safe from this media treatment is the Football World Cup, because 1. the Socceroos are an average old football team, 2. the unappealing timeslot for the football world cup, and 3. the fact soccer is not parochial or has a huge emotional investment like Cricket or some other Australian sports.
EDIT - you dont even have to look at World sports to notice the intent of a media agenda, the media bias is definitely prominent even in interstate rivalries, ie the state of WA doesnt show any other sport than AFL, and they'd dedicate the first 5 minutes of the sunday sports bulletin for an indepth coverage to the game that is currently unfolding at subiaco oval
. Whereas in Sydney they wouldnt even half bother show a checkside kick by a Fremantle player that put the team in front Hey, guess what? If you really want to filter the coverage (North Korean style), you might as well cut the coverage for Collingwood Matches (thats if you had a Collingwood channel
) if Collingwood starts losing a match
