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GB News: a thread so you never have to watch it

T & P said:
Clearly I was wrong all along, but I had always been under the impression that TV news broadcast channels were subject to far closer guidelines regarding balanced content than in the likes of the US. Which allegedly had frustrated Rupert Murdoch throughout his long ownership of Sky News, as he was not allowed to impose the kind of bias as is prevalent on Fox News. And which recently drove him to sell it off, whilst still keeping his newspaper empire because he’s allowed to be as biased and unfair as he pleases.

So I reckon he must be feeling like a right cunt right now about a bunch of amateur nobodies being allowed to lunch a news channel as biased as his own Fox channel in the US. How the fuck did this come to be? Is it because Sky News is perceived as too big and influential to be allowed to have a blatantly biased agenda?
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This is a good read on the topic. Section five: Due impartiality and due accuracy
 
Interesting promo image. Brillo's babes. Afaict, though, all but one of them plays Judy to someone else's Richard.
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What a great description....

Dan Wootton is a tabloid journalist – having worked at the Sun, he now writes for Mail Online – with teeth that he may, or may not, have bought at sale time at Victorian Plumbing. I dislike his politics intensely, for which reason I was prepared to loathe his opening monologue (he’s going to do one every night, kids!). Nothing, though, could have prepared me for the embarrassment of listening to him: as unstoppable as gastroenteritis; as wrong-headed as, well, Tim Martin.

I guess the model for this kind of speechifying is Rachel Maddow of MSNBC in the US. But the difference is, of course, that while she is clever and funny and engaging, Wootton just talks utter bollocks about freedom, Brexit, cancel culture, etc, at emphatic speed, in the manner of a Club 18-30 rep who knows the hotel is cockroach-infested, but can’t quite begin to admit it to all the people on the coach. ("Have a cocktail, ladies and gents: this one is called Fake News, and I mixed it myself!")
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www.newstatesman.com

GB News: technical failures and cringeworthy content

Even Andrew Neil seemed close to embarrassment at the launch of his own channel, the TV equivalent of the Titanic.
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Guinness were delighted to announce that the first evening of GB News has been awarded a world record for uses of the word “woke” in an hour.

Starting at 8pm with a monologue about their pride to be British from GB News Head Andrew Neil, filmed on a camera-phone from his house in France, the channel promised to rail against the woke agenda; giving the first of over 1100 uses of the key phrase.

Promising a voice for the voiceless, the centrepiece of the first show presented by former TalkRadio drivetime host Dan Wootton was an interview with 35-time Question Time guest Nigel Farage, which was replaced mid-way through by a pizza advert when viewers made it clear they desired something cheesy that irritated their stomach; but the former Brexit Party leader was a step too far.

Despite a series of technical issues on the first night, A GB News spokesperson was confident these teething troubles would abate in time, saying in a statement, “We’re delighted to have been given our first award in only our second day of broadcasting. As a Great British news channel, we hope to set many more records over the coming days. We already have our eyes on the record for most utterances of ‘I’m not racist but…’ and the big one set originally by TV-am for most viewers lost in the first week of broadcasting.”
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:D

GB News Breaks World Record for Use of Word “Woke”NewsBiscuit | NewsBiscuit

Guinness were delighted to announce that the first evening of GB News has been awarded a world record for uses of the word woke in an hour. Starting at 8pm
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I really hope they don't end up being 'the plucky little station who aren't afraid to say what we're all thinking.' That seems to be the look they're going for. Some people are very easily influenced and having that message on a rolling loop is not ideal (my colleague will almost certainly watch it).
 
Chilli.s said:
The echo on the sound is hilarious, normal studio sound is far too woke for them
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Guessing they can't (or they don't want to) match the wages that bbc/itv/sky pay their experienced camaramen and sound engineers so got new people to do it that don't have a clue.

Dipped in a couple of times yesterday out of curiosity but could never last more than a miniute before turning over it was that awful and cringe inducing. Someone was talking about losing pen tops at one point and i did see the bit where they lost sound when boris started talking :D
 
The silly and hopeless cultural war is over. The Left won. It's not OK to be a ghastly racist and not have a social conscience and care for people and look after people. I'm not watching GMB News in the same sense i'm not reading the 'Sun' newspaper which is rapidly going the way of Myspace.

Peace out.
 
I only briefly flicked over this morning, when sport news came on Sky, I can't believe that the sound levels are still all over the place, it should be so easy to get right, back in the 80's I worked on a couple of pirate radio stations in Ireland, and we never had any problems with sound levels, but then, despite being pirates, we actually had professional standards, unlike this shower.
 
I've not really watched it yet, I watched for a few mins last night which was mostly adverts and then there was some guy interviewing a woman in America about how the Yanks feel about Meghan Markle so hardly cutting edge journalism. Before I got any further Mrs Q had made herself a cup of hot chocolate and we watched Jack Ryan on Amazon Prime instead.
I'll have to make time for a watch to see what a longer chunk is like.
Prior to reading this thread I hadn't even heard of GB News. The mere fact it is something new is going to give it an initial boost, the proof of the pudding is how many stick with it. Advertisers don't care about bias or opinion only ratings, if it can't attract and keep viewers long term then no-one is going to pay good money to have adverts shown to a handful of viewers and it will fold.
 
So the adverts:

Some shitty Desmond-funded (I'm sure) lotto to keep you aspiring.
Some burglar alarm services to keep you frightened
Some life assurance to keep you assured your kids, who should be frightened, will be ok (unless they lose the lotto, get burgled, or become marxists)

And a special mattress so you get the night's sleep, away from the nightmares of the above, you deserve in your dotage.
 
glitch hiker said:
So the adverts:

Some shitty Desmond-funded (I'm sure) lotto to keep you aspiring.
Some burglar alarm services to keep you frightened
Some life assurance to keep you assured your kids, who should be frightened, will be ok (unless they lose the lotto, get burgled, or become marxists)

And a special mattress so you get the night's sleep, away from the nightmares of the above, you deserve in your dotage.
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Yesterday it was far bigger, more normal, aspirational brands. I assume they all kicked off overnight and withdrew so we've gone into proper Four in a Bed scheduling.
 
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