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

[existentialist]

So ... did you just insert yourself into a thread where your condition wasn’t part of the discussion until you made it so?

You really ARE a spanner, aren't you?

 

[Doctor Carrot]

This might/ should rattle some of the remaining advertisers?

It's apparently the logo for andysmanclub, a male mental health support group charity the man being interviewed was talking about.

Having that logo for that club represented in a hand gesture on a channel like that and the absolutely outraged face of the twitter streamer absolutely optimises the outrage culture war market we've got going on at the moment.

 

[brogdale]

It's apparently the logo for andysmanclub, a male mental health support group charity the man being interviewed was talking about.

Having that logo for that club represented in a hand gesture on a channel like that and the absolutely outraged face of the twitter streamer absolutely optimises the outrage culture war market we've got going on at the moment.

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Interesting.

There appear to be a growing number of ‘men’s mental health groups’ emerging that are fronts for far-right activists .

 

[SpookyFrank]

Wow someone paid for that domain name? Why bother. GB news is for bigoted arseholes by bigoted arseholes. From a money making perspective it's a quick smash and grab.

'Hey, there's loads of angry ignorant fuckwits out there. Newspapers for angry ignorant fuckwits are a crowded market place. I know, let's make a news channel where we can reflect angry fuckwitted views back to angry ignorant fuckwits. There'll always be some advertisers willing to advertise to angry ignorant fuckwits so let's go for it. It's not like Ofcom have much clout is it? And think of the click ad revenue Ch ching!'

But how much loot is left over once they've paid the rent on the shipping container they're filming in and the bus fares for the year 10 work experience kid running the sound desk?

 

[cupid_stunt]

Specsavers suspends their advertising, even if the boycott doesn't make any difference to GBN,it is entertaining to follow.




Updated list of advertisers that have pulled their ads from GB News so far: ✓ Kopparberg ✓ Grolsch ✓ Nivea ✓ Open University ✓ Ikea ✓ Octopus Energy ✓ Ovo Energy ✓ Indeed ✓ Specsavers

 

[steveseagull]

It was only a matter of time before they would have someone on defending Prince Andrew

 

[steveo87]

It was only a matter of time before they would have someone on defending Prince Andrew

The old 'King Edward may have been a massive racist who hung out with Nazis, but that doesn't make him a Nazi' argument.

 

[krtek a houby]

He gets paid for this nonsense and sitting around blowing incoherent raspberries, probably more than me.

Bastard.

Wootton or Spanner?

 

[cupid_stunt]

Vodafone, another unhappy customer of Sky Media & GBN.

 

[Doctor Carrot]

Interesting.

There appear to be a growing number of ‘men’s mental health groups’ emerging that are fronts for far-right activists .

Yeah I can see how there would be overlap between men's rights types, men's mental health advocates and racist blokes who also think women are the cause of all their woes.

Personally, I wouldn't have known that was a white supremacist symbol because to me it's just an a OK symbol, there's even an emoji for it

I just see all this as an industry now. Norman Finkelstein wrote a book called the holocaust industry. It would be interesting to see a book called something like the woke industry or culture war industry talking about similar topics because people are making some decent money off this relentless shite.

GB news are just another incarnation of it. It attracts furious Gammons and people who like to laugh at them in the same way, say, the guardian attracts right on types and the Gammons who like to wind them up.

 

[brogdale]

Yeah I can see how there would be overlap between men's rights types, men's mental health advocates and racist blokes who also think women are the cause of all their woes.

Personally, I wouldn't have known that was a white supremacist symbol because to me it's just an a OK symbol, there's even an emoji for it

I just see all this as an industry now. Norman Finkelstein wrote a book called the holocaust industry. It would be interesting to see a book called something like the woke industry or culture war industry talking about similar topics because people are making some decent money off this relentless shite.

GB news are just another incarnation of it. It attracts furious Gammons and people who like to laugh at them in the same way, say, the guardian attracts right on types and the Gammons who like to wind them up.

Just recently seen a few 'men's mental health walking groups' started up in South London and, with no actual evidence at all, noticed that their social media activists/followers seem to have pronounced pro-right-wing/anti left-wing characteristics.

Seems an obvious way to use a current hot topic (that may attract 'official' support/football club endorsement etc.) to subtly recruit/influence under the radar, gathering together potentially vulnerable men.

 

[brogdale]

Irrespective of my musings, using a white supremacist symbol doesn't really reflect well on the organisation or the TV presenter who should know better.

 

[Doodler]

Irrespective of my musings, using a white supremacist symbol doesn't really reflect well on the organisation or the TV presenter who should know better.

It's pretty obscure, hardly the old right-arm gymnastics.

 

[cupid_stunt]

This is a bonus, you get to laugh at both GBN and Charlie Mullins in one short video.

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[steveseagull]

They do appear to have sorted their sound levels out this morning (or at least improved the situation)

 

[ska invita]

how many hours a day is this on?

 

[moochedit]

So, yesterday it was Mike Hunt and Mike Oxlong.

Who will it be today? Huge Janus, Wayne Kerr, and Anita Dump?

Go on ..phone them in....you know you want to

 

[brogdale]

Go on ..phone them in....you know you want to

Kay Malone?

 

[killer b]

Interesting.

There appear to be a growing number of ‘men’s mental health groups’ emerging that are fronts for far-right activists .

Andy's Mens Club isn't a far-right front as far as I can tell - I know a few guys who've been involved, it's just a group therapy thing

 

[brogdale]

It's pretty obscure, hardly the old right-arm gymnastics.

Not that obscure, just conveniently excusable.

OK hand sign added to list of hate symbols

 

[glitch hiker]

Someone on the Youtubes was commenting, saying that the production (low) values are a deliberate attempt to make them appear less 'elitist' and more appealing to the masses. A bit like a shitty social media clip. I'm not terribly convinced

 

[killer b]

it is obscure, no-one who isn't very online indeed and moving in activist circles has any idea that the OK symbol has been co-opted by fascists.

 

[brogdale]

Andy's Mens Club isn't a far-right front as far as I can tell - I know a few guys who've been involved, it's just a group therapy thing

Good to hear.

Just that in the context of the fledgling right-wing channel, interviewees & presenters exchanging the hand gesture doesn't look good.

 

[bellaozzydog]

I was in Kew once, doesn't make me Monty fucking Don though.

 

[brogdale]

it is obscure, no-one who isn't very online indeed and moving in activist circles has any idea that the OK symbol has been co-opted by fascists.

I expect that's what Dewberry would argue.

 

[chilango]

it is obscure, no-one who isn't very online indeed and moving in activist circles has any idea that the OK symbol has been co-opted by fascists.

Yeah. But journalists who are fixated on "wokeness" should be aware of it.

 

[cupid_stunt]

They do appear to have sorted their sound levels out this morning (or at least improved the situation)

Audio quality has improved, but levels are still all over the place when they go an outside broadcast or zoom interview.

In one OB, they actually gave the interviewee a proper clip on mic to use, instead of the interviewer holding a cheap mic or their iPhone in their general direction, in the hope of picking-up whatever they were saying.

 

[killer b]

Yeah. But journalists who are fixated on "wokeness" should be aware of it.

right. But they also might think that just because some activists in america have been trolled by some nazis into thinking anyone using the the widely recognised OK symbol is also a nazi is no reason to stop using a widely recognised symbol for OK. I still use it from time to time and I'm fairly sure I'm not a nazi.

 

[bemused]

Interesting.

There appear to be a growing number of ‘men’s mental health groups’ emerging that are fronts for far-right activists .

Ambler is hardly 'far right' he started the charity after his brother in law killed himself. If you asked the majority of people outside the Internet what that sign means most of them will say OK.

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[bemused]

right. But they also might think that just because some activists in america have been trolled by some nazis into thinking anyone using the the widely recognised OK symbol is also a nazi is no reason to stop using a widely recognised symbol for OK. I still use it from time to time and I'm fairly sure I'm not a nazi.

I've had nurses use it at me, I didn't realise they could be undercover KKK operatives trying to recruit chemo patients. Sneaky bastards!