New Alternative News Channel "GB News" chaired by Andrew Neil launching - read OP before posting

Ah no, sure as has been demonstrated earlier in the thread that lad was clearly🙄 a lefty socialist 🤦 and EH holds no truck with lefties.

Welcome to the wonderful world of "alternative facts"

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Are these the slides in standards you were talking about @Blaine10

I know your suggestion that mods aren't on the ball here to be untrue because I got a warning for much less than the above.

@Tony_EH

That could be because the BBC are not going to discuss their own Countryside hosts claiming their countryside is racist. I don't know what you'd expect to see in the English countryside - herds of wildebeest or African tribe artefacts perhaps. Of course the serious point they were insinuating is that there are very few BAME demographics outside of metropolitan areas which is of course attributable to the reason that most minorities would prefer to live with their own kind in the same way I did once by relocation to the city which has very high density of strapping gay men leaving fewer in more rural areas. See, no need to be so disparaging of far too white English countryside. The true meaning of diversity is not that everywhere is the same and I'm sure the village of "we're not very diverse around here are we, sigh" Dibly is lovely the way it is. The people who officially complained about that to the BBC at least know what woke actually actually is.

Now since it's Sunday here's an appropriate message from the gammon Bishop of York.

Think that nails it on the head for me as to how I see GB News -

They have presenters and people on being interviewed, being paid to express backward and xenophobic views, for the benefit of an audience who see themselves as victims of the kind of stories that GB News is trying to wind people up about.

I dunno if it’s still a segment on the channel but that whole “Woke Watch” thing was an example of just pure stupidity, and what audience interaction I’ve seen amounts to viewers calling in to give their opinions with names like Mike Hunt and Mike Oxlong 😂

Just pure amateurish nonsense, none of it actually feels authentic or genuinely held opinions. They appear to be literally just doing it for the money, and even then for a few the money isn’t enough to keep them from jumping ship, if they’re not being fired for expressing an opinion which isn’t intended to be divisive, like the ‘threat’ of what they call ‘cancel culture’.

It makes sense only in regard to it being an outlet for juvenile sneering funded by other people’s money. As long as they can keep fuelling the outrage machine to cover their costs, they don’t need to generate revenue from advertising, they can just use Patreon like every other wind-up merchant on YouTube.

Flicked by it last night to see a replay of Dan Wooton covering the Northern Irish protocol. Wootons position was that the big bad EU are out to punish the UK for holding them to the terms of a deal they literally signed up to. But of course he didnt mention anything about Boris saying it was oven ready and a great deal, that got completely swept under the carpet. Instead he said the protocol they signed up to has to go and then he advocated that the border comes out of the Irish sea and onto land between the north and Ireland. The guy is literally clueless, he is like the audio visual version of 'The Sun says.....'

Unfortunately that type of woeful ignorance is exactly what their viewers want to hear and lap up. That is what GB News, if it survives will only apply to a certain cross section of society that need their own ignorant views and beliefs pandered to.

There is no such thing as bad publicity. Those moaning and complaining are doing all the advertising they need for free.

Invoking 1984 to describe the phenomenon of a minuscule, tiny number of people expressing a different view to what in your opinion are views held by the majority of people in society?

You’re having a laugh, surely?

Ohh, a 1984 comparison! Now that's an idea I hadn't considered. It's kind of an interesting parallel too!

I guess it covers the whole of Brexit / MAGA mentality and the media that hangs off it, but I guess you could almost compare the likes of GB News & Fox News etc as "The Ministry of Truth". Then you have things like:

The Hour of Hate - (Where in you get a selected enemy to scream at for a while)

"Eastasia is our ally" (Brexit Means Brexit, Oven Ready Deal, Great deal for Britian)

"Eastasia is our enemy, and always has been" (The Deal is the EU's fault, and is terrible)

Ahh yes but FPtP is completely democratic and respects how people vote..... only 1 government elected by the majority of the people in almost 100 years.

What’s the ethos of the channel?

"breached the ethos of the channel" makes it sound like a cult. Either believe the same things as us or you will be fired. And this from the same people who complain about cancel culture.