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

[cupid_stunt]

 

[Raheem]

Unlike the BBCthere’s no clause saying they need to be unbiased or honest or good

Yes there is. How much it will be enforced is another question.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Young man grow up, you'll learn something.


Unlike the BBCthere’s no clause saying they need to be unbiased or honest or good

They are subject to OFCOM's rules on due impartiality and due accuracy.

Section five: Due impartiality and due accuracy

This section of the Broadcasting Code relates to the concept of

www.ofcom.org.uk

 

[existentialist]

He thinks their sound problems are down to a lack of "state of the art sound equipment"?

I suspect that someone with a bunch of webcams and a pile of open source software could do a better job than they're managing right now, assuming it was being operated by someone moderately competent. It's not state of the art gear they need, but halfway capable operators.

I do wonder if this is the side-effect of the neoliberal right wing tendency to see workers as dispensible, interchangeable drones, whose expertise is irrelevant. After all, since so many of them seem to perceive experts as part of the problem, why on earth WOULD they hire an expert sound or video person? Far better to find someone with the "correct" political views and untainted by contact with the establishment.

 

[MickiQ]

He thinks their sound problems are down to a lack of "state of the art sound equipment"?

I suspect that someone with a bunch of webcams and a pile of open source software could do a better job than they're managing right now, assuming it was being operated by someone moderately competent. It's not state of the art gear they need, but halfway capable operators.

I do wonder if this is the side-effect of the neoliberal right wing tendency to see workers as dispensible, interchangeable drones, whose expertise is irrelevant. After all, since so many of them seem to perceive experts as part of the problem, why on earth WOULD they hire an expert sound or video person? Far better to find someone with the "correct" political views and untainted by contact with the establishment.

I suspect they were more motivated to find someone who was cheap more than any other criteria

 

[Artaxerxes]

They are subject to OFCOM's rules on due impartiality and due accuracy.

Section five: Due impartiality and due accuracy

This section of the Broadcasting Code relates to the concept of

www.ofcom.org.uk

They'll be fine, especially with Dacre taking over Ofcom.

“Due” is an important qualification to the concept of impartiality. Impartiality itself means not favouring one side over another. “Due” means adequate or appropriate to the subject and nature of the programme. So “due impartiality” does not mean an equal division of time has to be given to every view, or that every argument and every facet of every argument has to be represented. The approach to due impartiality may vary according to the nature of the subject, the type of programme and channel, the likely expectation of the audience as to content, and the extent to which the content and approach is signalled to the audience. Context, as defined in Section two: Harm and offence of the Code, is important.

 

[cupid_stunt]

He thinks their sound problems are down to a lack of "state of the art sound equipment"?

I am sure he knows the problems are deeper than anything connected to the equipment, he's just taking the piss, it's the McCoy way.

 

[existentialist]

I suspect they were more motivated to find someone who was cheap more than any other criteria

Given the paranoid mindset that seems to dominate gammon thought, I can't believe that they won't be trying to filter out dangerous leftie liberal types...

 

[two sheds]

Given the paranoid mindset that seems to dominate gammon thought, I can't believe that they won't be trying to filter out dangerous leftie liberal types...

unless they did hire leftie liberal types who are sabotaging it

 

[existentialist]

unless they did hire leftie liberal types who are sabotaging it

I do hope that idea takes root. The pogroms would be legendary.

It'd almost be worth setting up a GBNews Sound Engineer Twitter account to explain how the latest cockup was carefully planned...

 

[cupid_stunt]

They'll be fine, especially with Dacre taking over Ofcom.

That isn't guaranteed, the interview panel appears to have turned him down, it's reported that the competition is to be re-run.

Paul Dacre and Ofcom: What's going on?

The contest to be the regulator's next boss is being re-run amid concerns over the PM's preferred candidate.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Artaxerxes]

That isn't guaranteed, the interview panel appears to have turned him down, it's reported that the competition is to be re-run.

Paul Dacre and Ofcom: What's going on?

The contest to be the regulator's next boss is being re-run amid concerns over the PM's preferred candidate.

www.bbc.co.uk

They turned him down, had three candidates lined up and then the government made them rerun to keep Dacre eligible.

Government likes a stitch up, they are doing the same sort of thing with museum and charity trustees.

 

[cupid_stunt]

 

[two sheds]

That proves it they've been hiring people off the Guardian.

 

[steveseagull]

 

[Serene]

I have been waiting for them ( GB News ) to show Gammons sat eating a full English while having a pint, at 9 in the morning, in Wetherspoons, this morning, while showing adverts to join the Armed Forces and shoot people and Union Jacks everywhere on the walls. No doubt there has been HP Sauce adverts on every ten minutes.

 

[brogdale]

Hope they'll be a Fyre Festival style documentary made.

 

[Serene]

GB News has just said that it is going to announce a full list of Englands traitors, with their names and addresses, in this weeks program. Funnily enough it wont include Dyson who moved to Singapore for tax reasons.

 

[Serene]

Rees-Mogg will appear on the programe tomorrow, wearing a Monacle, preaching about Victorian values. The Gammons wont be joining the Army , of course, because " We are too old ", but they will be telling everyone that anyone not working should be forced to join up.

 

[moochedit]

I suspect they were more motivated to find someone who was cheap more than any other criteria

And non union i would guess.

 

[moochedit]

Maybe the "sound engineer" is sasha barron cohen and they haven't twigged yet?

 

[Serene]

" Scarborough Council announces plan to tackle Seagull poo " is the latest headline on it. Gammon Pensioners are ringing in furiously shouting about Seagulls taking over the shopping centre and stealing their chips.
SEAGULL POO PROBLEM written in capital letters across the screen.

 

[brogdale]

Not the sharpest tool....

 

[cupid_stunt]

From about 50 45 seconds in, you can see Brazier totally cracks up, even though he tries to hide it, when Muroki gets confused about viruses.

ETA - watch carefully from 45 seconds, the look on his face when she mentions covid, before he cracks-up, fucking priceless.

 

[Badgers]

It is funny but also disturbing that this is here

 

[Serene]

Its being broadcast from the back office of a London Wetherspoons. You can see them sticking to the carpet as they walk about.

 

[MickiQ]

And non union i would guess.

That's implied from cheap

Not the sharpest tool....

5G innit

 

[Raheem]

Not the sharpest tool....

Worth noting that she was a member of that racism commission that said everything was more-or-less fine and we were supposed to take it seriously.

 

[DaveCinzano]

 

[The39thStep]

Elmer Bernstein and the Famous Five