If you do not know the extent of pressure asserted on Chinese media that is willful ignorance.

Of course "our media" (whatever you mean by that) is the only media that can report on it as Chinese media is heavily censored.

If you want to know the extent the information easy to find.

Here's some of what Reporters Without Borders have to say

"The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is the world's largest prison for journalists, and its regime conducts a campaign of repression against journalism and the right to information worldwide."

"The Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party sends a detailed notice to all media every day that includes editorial guidelines and censored topics."

"Independent journalists and bloggers who dare to report “sensitive” information are often placed under surveillance, harassed, detained, and, in some cases, tortured."

Source: https://rsf.org/en/country/china

This is from The Committee to Protect Journalists

"China has long ranked as one of the world’s worst jailers of journalists. Censorship makes the exact number of journalists jailed there notoriously difficult to determine, but Beijing’s media crackdown has widened in recent years"

Source: https://cpj.org/reports/2024/01/2023-prison-census-jailed-journalist-numbers-near-record-high-israel-imprisonments-spike/

Here's Amnesty International

"Chinese authorities continued to severely curtail rights to freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly, including through the abusive application of laws often under the pretext of preserving national security."

Source: https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/asia-and-the-pacific/east-asia/china/report-china/

the stories that come out first tend to be most biased

I honestly think the concept of news is actually harmful, because it's about reporting what happened, not about making the audience understand the subject. It puts a premium on getting the report out as quickly as possible, and favours the most shocking events and interpretations that draw people's attention.

Ultimately most news are "empty calories" of information that mostly give an illusion of knowledge. "Explosion in Herptown, dozens wounded" does not meaningfully increase your understanding of the world, it mostly just makes you scared. It will take weeks until the cause and consequences of the explosion can be fully understood, and a lot of research to put that into perspective.