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Post by Phantom of London on Jun 11, 2021 18:49:44 GMT
So is this the new Fox in/on the box. Sorry about the pun, with football starting today, a Fox in the box is striker that scores tap ins and Fox being a right wing Trump loving American News Network. So I wonder how long before they sign Laurence Fox, Richard Little John, Nick Ferrari or Katie Hopkins, or any other very angry WASP. Alistair Stewart has signed already, he should steer clear of any Shakespeare quotes, especially if they contain animals, ‘cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war’ is fine though. it’s going to be on the wireless as well. So anyone going to be tuning in? www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9677021/Now-GB-News-takes-radio-New-network-reveals-plans-national-service.html |
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Post by talkingheads on Jun 11, 2021 19:57:08 GMT
So is this the new Fox in/on the box. Sorry about the pun, with football starting today, a Fox in the box is striker that scores tap ins and Fox being a right wing Trump loving American News Network. So I wonder how long before they sign Laurence Fox, Richard Little John, Nick Ferrari or Katie Hopkins, or any other very angry WASP. Alistair Stewart has signed already, he should steer clear of any Shakespeare quotes, especially if they contain animals, ‘cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war’ is fine though. it’s going to be on the wireless as well. So anyone going to be tuning in? www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9677021/Now-GB-News-takes-radio-New-network-reveals-plans-national-service.htmlI've already muted it on Twitter. |
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Post by lichtie on Jun 11, 2021 21:06:10 GMT
They don't need Fox they've already got Neil Oliver, who claims he's apolitical then goes on to say lockdowns were wrong in a piece in the Herald, and who is already on the record as despising anything "woke" (including many things which aren't, like many of the rest of the right wing rent-a-gobs).
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Post by Phantom of London on Jun 12, 2021 14:21:11 GMT
Not really heard of Neil Oliver but he does sounds awful. I look at Daily Mail online sometimes, what Dan Wootton writes for, he sounds equally terrifying. He is anti immigration/anti woke despite being an immigrant himself from New Zealand.
Even with the Tory Andrew Neil at the helm, it is very expensive to set up a tv station, so wonder how they’re funded?
They say they’re not going to do rolling news which they wouldn’t be able to afford to do, as that is astronomically expensive, it is just opinion, which is just as freighting, as you can say what you want and you cannot sue for libel if it is deemed ‘opinion.’
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jun 12, 2021 14:50:56 GMT
Not really heard of Neil Oliver but he does sounds awful. I look at Daily Mail online sometimes, what Dan Wootton writes for, he sounds equally terrifying. He is anti immigration/anti woke despite being an immigrant himself from New Zealand. Even with the Tory Andrew Neil at the helm, it is very expensive to set up a tv station, so wonder how they’re funded? They say they’re not going to do rolling news which they wouldn’t be able to afford to do, as that is astronomically expensive, it is just opinion, which is just as freighting, as you can say what you want and you cannot sue for libel if it is deemed ‘opinion.’You’ve said some pretty astounding things on this very forum in the name of “opinion” PoL so I’d have thought this was right up your street. Yes I’ll be tuning in. I’ve always thought Andrew Neil to be an excellent interviewer. I don’t see what party he votes for has to do with it, he doesn’t show any bias in who he mauls. I’ll be giving Dan Wootton and Michelle Dewberry’s shows a miss simply because they’re gobs on sticks and I don’t want to listen to their voices. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2021 15:35:01 GMT
I’m interested to see what it’s like. There’s definitely room for a TV news organisation with a centrist or centre right outlook, compared to others which might be coming at things from the left (though not necessarily, I appreciate, the print media).
It will also be interesting to see what ratings they get. Certainly the recent electoral and polling successes for the Conservatives suggests there may well be an audience out there.
Am most looking forward to Andrew Neil, Inaya Folarin Iman, Alastair Stewart and Andrew Doyle.
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Post by n1david on Jun 12, 2021 15:52:45 GMT
Interestingly, given its name, GB News is funded primarily by overseas investors. The two lead investors are Discovery, the US TV network that owns a range of satellite and cable channels like Eurosport, Animal Planet and so on; and Legatum, a private investment firm headquartered in Dubai, which funds the Legatum Institute think tank which supported Brexit and funded the Vote Leave chair Matthew Elliot.
Discovery has recently become part of the Warner Bros Discovery group which means that GB News will now be under the same ownership as CNN.
[Provided as information only and not making a political point]
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Post by Phantom of London on Jun 12, 2021 21:39:37 GMT
Not really heard of Neil Oliver but he does sounds awful. I look at Daily Mail online sometimes, what Dan Wootton writes for, he sounds equally terrifying. He is anti immigration/anti woke despite being an immigrant himself from New Zealand. Even with the Tory Andrew Neil at the helm, it is very expensive to set up a tv station, so wonder how they’re funded? They say they’re not going to do rolling news which they wouldn’t be able to afford to do, as that is astronomically expensive, it is just opinion, which is just as freighting, as you can say what you want and you cannot sue for libel if it is deemed ‘opinion.’You’ve said some pretty astounding things on this very forum in the name of “opinion” PoL so I’d have thought this was right up your street. Yes I’ll be tuning in. I’ve always thought Andrew Neil to be an excellent interviewer. I don’t see what party he votes for has to do with it, he doesn’t show any bias in who he mauls. I’ll be giving Dan Wootton and Michelle Dewberry’s shows a miss simply because they’re gobs on sticks and I don’t want to listen to their voices. Well I won’t be tuning in, so for one you are very wrong. It is not up my street at all. |
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Post by talkingheads on Jun 12, 2021 22:01:22 GMT
Just a reminder. If you're thinking of sharing a GB News outrage headline.
Don't
If you're thinking of sharing a GB News story to mock it.
Don't
They thrive on the oxygen of publicity. Cut it off.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jun 13, 2021 8:07:15 GMT
Just a reminder. If you're thinking of sharing a GB News outrage headline. Don't If you're thinking of sharing a GB News story to mock it. Don't They thrive on the oxygen of publicity. Cut it off. This |
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Post by TallPaul on Jun 13, 2021 9:42:26 GMT
Anything that triggers leftists has my full support. It's been hilarious to watch them go into full meltdown before a single second of output has been broadcast.
GB News' Yorkshire correspondent is one Kevin Larkin, who I know from his time at BBC Radio Sheffield, the most left-wing radio station in all England. I'm shocked that he was bluffing all those years. Shocked, I tell you! And who knew that Simon McCoy is actually one of 'them'? He always seemed so nice.
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Post by talkingheads on Jun 13, 2021 10:23:44 GMT
Anything that triggers leftists has my full support. It's been hilarious to watch them go into full meltdown before a single second of output has been broadcast. GB News' Yorkshire correspondent is one Kevin Larkin, who I know from his time at BBC Radio Sheffield, the most left-wing radio station in all England. I'm shocked that he was bluffing all those years. Shocked, I tell you! And who knew that Simon McCoy is actually one of 'them'? He always seemed so nice. You mean like how the right wingers were so triggered they created their own news channel to broadcast their biased views? |
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Post by Jan on Jun 13, 2021 10:25:45 GMT
It can't be in the remotest way like Fox News because Ofcom rules don't allow it.
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Post by Jan on Jun 13, 2021 10:29:16 GMT
Anything that triggers leftists has my full support. It's been hilarious to watch them go into full meltdown before a single second of output has been broadcast. GB News' Yorkshire correspondent is one Kevin Larkin, who I know from his time at BBC Radio Sheffield, the most left-wing radio station in all England. I'm shocked that he was bluffing all those years. Shocked, I tell you! And who knew that Simon McCoy is actually one of 'them'? He always seemed so nice. You mean like how the right wingers were so triggered they created their own news channel to broadcast their biased views? You do know it hasn't started yet don't you ? What we do know is that Channel 4 News thought it was just fine for their main news presenter Jon Snow to be filmed chanting "F*** the Tories" with no sanction or reprimand at all. If GB News sticks within that definition of lack of bias then that's fine isn't it ? |
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Post by vdcni on Jun 13, 2021 10:36:43 GMT
He didn't broadcast it, if that actually happened, it was at Glastonbury in his private life.
Impartiality rules only apply to what is actually broadcast.
Anyway best to just ignore them, they'll be desperately stirring up controversy as news channels don't do particularly good ratings. It's just another run of the mill TV channel among hundreds, no one is going to be making any significant money with this.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jun 13, 2021 11:40:00 GMT
You mean like how the right wingers were so triggered they created their own news channel to broadcast their biased views? You do know it hasn't started yet don't you ? What we do know is that Channel 4 News thought it was just fine for their main news presenter Jon Snow to be filmed chanting "F*** the Tories" with no sanction or reprimand at all. If GB News sticks within that definition of lack of bias then that's fine isn't it ? Did that happen? |
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Post by craig on Jun 13, 2021 12:25:16 GMT
As if the right wing rags didn’t have enough of a grip on the nation’s many morons. Just what we need. 🙄
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Post by craig on Jun 13, 2021 14:46:49 GMT
Mmhmm. Let’s just wait and see. The viral clips that they are using as their business model for survival will be popping up soon enough. I imagine what we will see is more right leaning / supposedly neutral presenters platforming the far right rent-a-gobs. It’s something This Morning have been doing very successfully for years and how the likes of Katie Hopkins gained traction in the first place. |
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Post by duncan on Jun 13, 2021 16:47:20 GMT
You do know it hasn't started yet don't you ? What we do know is that Channel 4 News thought it was just fine for their main news presenter Jon Snow to be filmed chanting "F*** the Tories" with no sanction or reprimand at all. If GB News sticks within that definition of lack of bias then that's fine isn't it ? Did that happen? The exceptionally left wing Snow didn't deny it at the time. |
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jun 13, 2021 17:11:54 GMT
The exceptionally left wing Snow didn't deny it at the time. Didn’t deny it was filmed? |
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Post by talkingheads on Jun 13, 2021 17:28:04 GMT
I've blocked every account associated with it and muted all words that could conceivably have anything to do with it.
My timeline is now a much happier place and will continue to be without this right wing bile bunging it up.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jun 13, 2021 18:06:24 GMT
For those who are a leeeetle more open to opinions that might challenge their own it’s channel 236 on Freeview from 8pm sunday 13th June.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jun 13, 2021 18:25:52 GMT
For those who are a leeeetle more open to opinions that might challenge their own it’s channel 236 on Freeview from 8pm sunday 13th June. Found anything that challenges you yet? |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jun 13, 2021 18:34:24 GMT
For those who are a leeeetle more open to opinions that might challenge their own it’s channel 236 on Freeview from 8pm sunday 13th June. Found anything that challenges you yet? No, it’s not 8pm yet. |
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