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

[elbows]

Shame they didnt train it on early Alan Partridge sports reports.

Although in the case of GB news it would be "own goal, and another one!"

 

[Everything Goes]

Some heart warming news about Mark Steyn


A former GB News presenter who lost a high court battle with Ofcom has been ordered to pay £50,000 in legal costs before the final bill is determined.

Former GB News presenter ordered to pay £50,000 in legal costs

Mark Steyn lost a high court battle against Ofcom who he claimed ‘killed’ his career with rulings about Covid comments

www.theguardian.com

 

[Lurdan]

The excellent _johnbye xtwitter account has updated it's thread about Mark Steyn's expensive legal kamikaze run against Ofcom.
It details the collection of cranks, nutters and far right shitheads who supported Steyn's legal challenge. Including, of course, the delightful Naomi Wolf, whose unchallenged statements on his show about how covid vaccines were bioweapons dropped him (and his ex-employers) in it in the first place.

Archived here as a webpage

Still you can't keep a good celebrity influencer down. Or even a pretty mediocre one. On Steyn's website are multiple opportunities to throw money at him, including a few cabins left on 'The Mark Steyn 2025 Cruise'. A two week cruise from Barcelona to Southampton with stops at Lisbon and La Coruna.

Join Mark and other special guests for a 7 Nights • Spain & Portugal cruise full of relaxation, revelry and review. You'll enjoy thoughtful discussions on the state of western civilization, analysis of political and cultural trends from the United States to the far reaches of the Commonwealth, and live editions of the features you've come to know and love from SteynOnline like Steyn's Song of the Week and Steyn's Sunday Poem.

Prices range from $2999-$9159 per person for a double cabin, or $4969-$17027 for a single. Sadly the Royal Suite with Veranda ($29350 double or $26976 single) seems to have been taken.

And I imagine you have to bring your own plank for the traditional walking ceremony.

 

[Chz]

Confused Naomi Klein and Naomi Wolf for a moment and thought "Why does everyone have to be problematic?" Whew.

 

[mihaly]

Confused Naomi Klein and Naomi Wolf for a moment and thought "Why does everyone have to be problematic?" Whew.

Easy mistake to make. She ( NK) wrote a whole excellent book - Doppleganger- about people doing just that.

 

[skyscraper101]

Ha ha

Ofcom Fines GB News $130,000 Over Rishi Sunak Live Show; GB News Boss Decries “Direct Attack On Free Speech & Journalism”

Ofcom has fined GB News £100,000 over Rishi Sunak Peoples Forum show before the UK general election

deadline.com

 

[cupid_stunt]

Ha ha

Ofcom Fines GB News $130,000 Over Rishi Sunak Live Show; GB News Boss Decries “Direct Attack On Free Speech & Journalism”

Ofcom has fined GB News £100,000 over Rishi Sunak Peoples Forum show before the UK general election

deadline.com

The regulator concluded that the prime minister had a “mostly uncontested platform to promote the policies and performance of his Government,” which breaks the code around impartiality.

“Given the seriousness and repeated nature of this breach, Ofcom has imposed a financial penalty of £100,000 ($130,000) on GB News Limited. We have also directed GB News to broadcast a statement of our findings against it, on a date and in a form determined by us,” Ofcom said of the near unprecedented move to fine a UK news network.

About bloody time!

GB News CEO Angelos Frangopoulos called the move a “direct attack on free speech and journalism in the United Kingdom.” “We believe these sanctions are unnecessary, unfair and unlawful,” he added. “The plan to sanction GB News flies in the face of Ofcom’s duty to act fairly, lawfully and proportionately to safeguard free speech, particularly political speech and on matters of public interest.”

 

[Lotte]

MUH FREEZE PEACH

 

[skyscraper101]

Personally I'd also like them to be forced to issue an apology live on air on the hour every hour for the next 24 hours. I think their pockets will be more than able to cover this slap on the wrist.

 

[CH1]

Dr Matthew Sweet


Seems this Neil Oliver monologue is freely availble on the GB News YouTiube channel. Not sure if they broadcast it on air.
Neil Oliver seems somehow the worse for wear, particulalry at the start.

 

[Boo Radley75]

Brilliant. Nigel Farage in currently in the USA, working for GB News as a reporter on the presidential election, right in the middle of a Parliamentary session. The people of Clacton are certainly getting their interests represented well by their local MP.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Brilliant. Nigel Farage in currently in the USA, working for GB News as a reporter on the presidential election, right in the middle of a Parliamentary session. The people of Clacton are certainly getting their interests represented well by their local MP.

 

[Lotte]

Brilliant. Nigel Farage in currently in the USA, working for GB News as a reporter on the presidential election, right in the middle of a Parliamentary session. The people of Clacton are certainly getting their interests represented well by their local MP.

I hate the cunt and I side-eye anyone who voted for him, but I still feel really angry on behalf of the people of Clacton because he can't even be bothered to do his fucking job. He wouldn't even do surgeries because he claimed he was worried about being murdered. He doesn't care about them and never did. He just wants to be some kind of aide for Trump.

 

[brogdale]

What's with all this wokery down at GB towers?

 

[Lotte]

Disraeli converted to Christianity. He was born Jewish, yes, but his dad left Judaism and he converted to Anglicanism when he was 12. As if Brits would ever vote for a practising Jew. Remember all the fun and games with Miliband? Also, Thatch fucked over other women and Badenoch is fucking over other black people and thinks institutional racism doesn't exist, and black people who complain about slavery or whatever are playing victim, so the Tories have proven that they'll accept women and POC as long as they're prepared to throw others like them under the bus.

 

[brogdale]

Disraeli converted to Christianity. He was born Jewish, yes, but his dad left Judaism and he converted to Anglicanism when he was 12. As if Brits would ever vote for a practising Jew. Remember all the fun and games with Miliband? Also, Thatch fucked over other women and Badenoch is fucking over other black people and thinks institutional racism doesn't exist, and black people who complain about slavery or whatever are playing victim, so the Tories have proven that they'll accept women and POC as long as they're prepared to throw others like them under the bus.

Yes to all of that; of course it's guff...but intriguing to see the arch enemies of the woke stuff going full on when, for some reason, it suits them.

 

[Lotte]

Oh yeah, it's funny how idpol becomes a GOOD thing when they can weaponise it.

 

[tim]

They have sacked David Starkey, according to Dan Wooten

 

[brogdale]

They have sacked David Starkey, according to Dan Wooten

More wokery! What has he ever done wrong?

 

[belboid]

As a public figure, I have been cancelled, obliterated and buried as far as the reach of the woke extends. Which these days is very far indeed.


Ohhh, the ironing.

 

[CH1]

They have sacked David Starkey, according to Dan Wooten

What will he do now? Banned by GB News, banned by the Common Room at Fitzwilliam College, he is presumably now merely a presence on YouTube.

 

[belboid]

aah, looking at the actual YouTube link.....

"They allowed my contract to run its course. They made a judgement. I couldn’t care. I survived because I make my own moves. GB news is a little chip off the old media block. It’s under Ofcom. We do our own things. GB News has apparently taken the decision. I’ve got no idea how terribly loose tongued I was.”

Not, technically, a sacking, but they won't let him speak live on air as he keeps saying things that could get them sued.