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

[moochedit]

Me neither. Apparently it's been going since 1931.

Television and Radio Industries Club - Wikipedia.
Their website



Looks like a typical industry networking/schmoozing body based around 'events' like dinners and award ceremonies, raising money through sponsorship and giving the surplus to charity. Can't see any details about how 'finalists' are shortlisted or how the 'public vote' is organised. I'd imagine questions are being asked about this at the moment

I notice in your link that gb news sponsered the 2023 awards

 

[skyscraper101]

Flouting OFCOM rules. Again.

Ofcom will investigate if GB News has violated Rule 5.4 of the Ofcom Broadcasting Code. It requires all broadcasters to ensure that their programmes – whatever their genre – exclude all expressions of the views and opinions of the person providing the service on matters of political and industrial controversy or current public policy. This reflects the statutory requirements in the Communications Act 2003 as set by Parliament.

https://www.digitaltveurope.com/2023/07/07/ofcom-launches-investigation-into-gb-news-dont-kill-cash-campaign/

 

[Johnny Vodka]

MSN

coffee chain has become the latest company to pull advertising from GB News as the broadcaster claims it is subject to a “massive advertising boycott”.

Grind, a network of cafes with 14 outlets across London, confirmed this week that it had cancelled “all future spend” with GB News after it was criticised by a campaign group for advertising on the channel.

In a message to the business on Twitter last week, climate pressure group Stop Funding Heat said: “Hi Grind - we’re sorry to say that your advertising has been spotted showing up on GB News … surely this isn’t the kind of channel you want to be aligned with?”

It posted a video of extracts from GB News coverage of climate issues, in which presenters called the activist Greta Thunberg “this annoying little Swedish teenager”.

On Monday, Grind announced that it would no longer be advertising with the channel.

In a reply, Grind said: “We’d like to thank you for bringing this to our attention, needless to say we’ve pulled all future spend from GB News.”

In another tweet, Grind said: “This slipped by us as part of running the ad over a long list of channels.”

GB News presenter Michelle Dewberry on Thursday claimed that the coffee shop’s withdrawal was damaging to free speech.

In a broadcast on the channel, Ms Dewberry said: “We are subject to a massive advertising boycott and we have been ever since, well before we’d even broadcast a second’s worth of content.”

Whenever a new advertiser that is onboarded to the channel, a new campaign starts almost immediately to get them to withdraw, Ms Dewberry said.

She said: “Politically motivated online pressure groups have made it their life’s work to try and close us down.”

Figures such as Laurence Fox, who launched the right-wing Reclaim Party in 2020, and journalist Emma Woolf have tweeted that they will make their own personal boycotts of Grind.

 

[two sheds]

"Figures such as Laurence Fox, who launched the right-wing Reclaim Party in 2020, and journalist Emma Woolf have tweeted that they will make their own personal boycotts of Grind."

Bit fucking ironic isn't it if they're protesting cancel culture.

 

[Raheem]

"They're getting no publicity off us," they said at length on their TV shows.

 

[Tanya1982]

MSN

Ms Dangleberry doesn’t understand that free speech includes the right of a private company to choose with whom to advertise.

 

[cupid_stunt]

In another tweet, Grind said: “This slipped by us as part of running the ad over a long list of channels.”

Sounds like another small business committed to a fairly small budget, that just left Sky Media's system book them on the best deals per 100k viewers, which tend to be channels with low ratings that businesses have not specifically booked on, hence 'the long list of [cheapo] channels.'

 

[nino_savatte]

As advertisers turn their backs on GB "News" in increasing numbers, the station has unveiled a bizarre strategy: alienate the advertisers while playing the victim.

 

[skyscraper101]

In another tweet, Grind said: “This slipped by us as part of running the ad over a long list of channels.”

This is why it's so important for campaign groups to bring this sort of thing to companies' attentions. I'm certain that there are dozens of other brands who don't pay attention to the sorts of news channels they are advertising on and often don't care or are willfully ignorant. Others will have genuinely overlooked things. It's only when someone has to spell out how bad a look it is for the brand when anything actually gets done about it.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

As advertisers turn their backs on GB "News" in increasing numbers, the station has unveiled a bizarre strategy: alienate the advertisers while playing the victim.

Oliver has just described GB news.

 

[two sheds]

Awwwww

Lee Anderson loses half his audience as viewers turn off his £100k GB News show

The Conservative deputy chairman’s Friday night programme has been hit by plummeting ratings as viewers grow tired of the politician nicknamed '30p Lee' after just three episodes

www.mirror.co.uk

Sunak appointing him as Conservative Party Deputy Chairman tells all we need to know about both Sunak and the state of the tory party.

 

[Lurdan]

Matthew Collins latest twitter thread:

Tinfoil News. @GBNEWS presenter and anti-vax conspiracy influencer @beverleyturner is urging us to watch a deranged video by Richard Hall, the man currently being sued by the bereaved families of Manchester stadium bombing for saying it was a hoax and their kids didn’t really die.

Thread archived here at threadreader app. Twitter link here.

 

[cupid_stunt]

WOW - from 50 seconds in.

 

[Karl Masks]

WOW - from 50 seconds in.

Bray comports himself perfectly.

I mean I would have liked to see that GB twat get kicked in the bollocks, obviously.

 

[Karl Masks]

Awwwww

Lee Anderson loses half his audience as viewers turn off his £100k GB News show

The Conservative deputy chairman’s Friday night programme has been hit by plummeting ratings as viewers grow tired of the politician nicknamed '30p Lee' after just three episodes

www.mirror.co.uk

Sunak appointing him as Conservative Party Deputy Chairman tells all we need to know about both Sunak and the state of the tory party.

A meaningless title of course. Still Anderson's made his money

 

[skyscraper101]

Bray comports himself perfectly.

I mean I would have liked to see that GB twat get kicked in the bollocks, obviously.

What a knob that guy made it 10 times worse. Big up Steve Bray.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

If Twitter is to believed, poor Dan Wootton is the next television news announcer to be targeted with vile attacks on their personal life..shocking stuff. Thoughts and prayers in order

 

[Bingoman]

If Twitter is to believed, poor Dan Wootton is the next television news announcer to be targeted with vile attacks on their personal life..shocking stuff. Thoughts and prayers in order

For who

 

[pseudonarcissus]

For who

unwitting participants in clandestinely recorded sex tapes everywhere....whether these allegations are true or not, I should say

 

[Bingoman]

unwitting participants in clandestinely recorded sex tapes everywhere....whether these allegations are true or not, I should say

I agree but not for Dan wootton

 

[agricola]

If Twitter is to believed, poor Dan Wootton is the next television news announcer to be targeted with vile attacks on their personal life..shocking stuff. Thoughts and prayers in order

The latest PB explains why that is so very unlikely to happen:

>> Sunburn <<​ Sat on another great scoop​ The Sun have been having a hell of a time trying to retrofit a public interest to their Huw Edwards story, pulling up any old incident of workplace misconduct they can find to pin on him now that the police are saying there's no evidence of any crime. It's a shame they've put themselves in this position because if all they wanted was a story about a news broadcaster who has made life uncomfortable for colleagues by sending them "inappropriate messages", they have a really juicy one much closer to home. It will involve asking some difficult questions, but they have an excellent starting lead. They should still have all of Dan Wootton's old HR files stashed away somewhere – so maybe they could start there? There's bullying allegations, NDAs - even a few pay-offs they could get the guys in finance to dredge back up. While they're doing that, they could look into why Wootton kept getting promoted while some of those who lodged complaints got sidelined. Former colleagues seem perfectly willing to chat – but hey. We shouldn't be doing their job for them. Just start pulling at the thread. See what you find...​

 

[DaveCinzano]

 

[teqniq]

Nicked from Twitter:



Source

 

[Raheem]

They've got someone doing "drive time" (for people who like to watch TV while driving, I suppose) who I can't work out whether they are real or a parody or something inbetween.

 

[Calamity1971]

Wootons ex has long thread on twatter and it's not nice reading if true. Wooton currently Missing in action !

 

[BusLanes]

GB News have announced he's off for a bit and wished him well

 

[tim]

GB News have announced he's off for a bit and wished him well

Or at least their parody account did

 

[BusLanes]

Or at least their parody account did

Oh snap

 

[Lurdan]

GBnews presenter Patrick Christys booted off 'free speech' twitter for breaking "violent threats rule"

Matthew Sweet thread about it including screencaps of Christys' delightful fans archived here

As far as I can make out the tweet that caused the ban might have been this one from Jul 8th (extracted from google cache)
It's his response to orange confetti being thrown at George Osborne.

Spoiler: Text of screencapped tweet

Patrick Christys @PatrickChristys • 4h
If somebody did this at my wedding they'd be getting buried in the graveyard behind the church very shortly afterwards twitter.eom/juststop_oil/s...

 

[nino_savatte]

This is a spoof but the question is: where is 4 Takes Wootton?