I can only speak of Spanish MSM with some depth knowledge, and... I think it is awful, incredibly biased and partisan, and seemingly guided or controlled by the "casta" (ruling class) somehow. This is only clearly seen when there is a big crisis, terrorist attack, pandemic etc. and then all papers have this blatant single united front of official news. In normal times they all peddle their partisan left/right aligned opinionated "news", so it looks like there is a free independent press, but I think it is a fabricated impression. Recently, when covid was approaching Spain, there was a clear orchestrated campaing of disinformation in all Spanish MSM (there was not a single dissenting voice) trying to downplay the danger, then slowly all at unison beginning to warn that the virus was definitely here and what we had to do. (that was in late March... at least one month late, compared to most European MSM media, or the official WHO information...).
The partisan biasedness of practically all outlets, even internet based supposedly independent sources is tiring. It´s either criticising the rightwing politicians´ actions and downplaying the leftists´ failures to ridiculous extremes, or the opposite. In fact I only know one or two properly independent sites and the contrast is shocking.
(end rant...)
