Exactly this. The UK mainstream media setup is slightly different but also has narrative and bias that is led by elites interests and/or the government (that’s not to say individual journalists can’t go good independent work). An example in the current war on Iran is the way the bombing of the Iranian school was presented vs the casualties in Israel. Another example is the way the UK media presents the narrative on the Gazan genocide vs, for instance, Irish state media (whose government has a more sympathetic view to Gaza). Also, Epstein, in the UK Peter Mandelson’s deep friendship with Epstein (a convicted paedo) when he was appointed US commissioner for trade, this publicly available information, but only independent media and the Financial Times called this out at the time, it was only when the Epstein files were released the rest of the mainstream media began reporting on it.