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

Watching Brazier & Muroki. Pretty boring, they've dredged up the boss of Punch Taverns for interview - bet they were hoping for Tim Martin instead. Ads for Direct Bullion.
 
Smokeandsteam said:
Fuzzy, poor syncing and looking like it was produced in a bedroom by a teenager on YouTube apart the thing that stuck me most was how dated the content appeared. Day one seemed to have been various individuals popping up to grind the specific axe that they’ve been grinding across the media for ages. Rather than a news channel it seemed to be a run through of complaints of the last period. It was also aggressively polemical rather than an attempt to give the impression that it would delve into a subject.

As such it felt like a weird historical account of what’s happened rather than news based or of now.
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If there's one thing youtube has taught us, it's that aggrieved pub bore polemics can do serious numbers. I expect this format will do very well, once they've ironed out the technical issues.
 
I wonder how they'll cope with a massive terrorist outrage or a plane crash on the M25 or whatever.

"So Michelle, more problems for British Airways"
"Yes Chris, it was only a few years ago that the company was mired in controversy when a member of cabin crew was asked to cover up their crucifix necklace"
 
killer b said:
If there's one thing youtube has taught us, it's that aggrieved pub bore polemics can do serious numbers. I expect this format will do very well, once they've ironed out the technical issues.
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Yeah but only serious numbers among those inclined to watch YT. Like confused angry young blokes who think Carl Benjamin is well informed, or Mark Meacham is a hilarious champion of freespeech. The Gammon types this lot are aiming for won't watch YT other than to upload the odd misinformed Brexit nonsense, whining about the EU
 
killer b said:
Yes, I know. They clearly think there's an untapped market to serve.
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Perhaps we can get them banned, I mean cancelled, for the inevitable hours of covid denial they will upload. I mean their guests include fucking Alison Pearson and Lord Sumption!
 
Smokeandsteam said:
Fuzzy, poor syncing and looking like it was produced in a bedroom by a teenager on YouTube apart the thing that stuck me most was how dated the content appeared. Day one seemed to have been various individuals popping up to grind the specific axe that they’ve been grinding across the media for ages. Rather than a news channel it seemed to be a run through of complaints of the last period. It was also aggressively polemical rather than an attempt to give the impression that it would delve into a subject.

As such it felt like a weird historical account of what’s happened rather than news based or of now.
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It did remind me of an amateur YouTube channel.
 
killer b said:
If there's one thing youtube has taught us, it's that aggrieved pub bore polemics can do serious numbers. I expect this format will do very well, once they've ironed out the technical issues.
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Maybe, I accept that I’m from a generation where it just looks so shit that I wouldn’t bother watching.

But, it seems to me, that the main role of GB news is to act as a story/narrative creator for social media/print media rather than something they expect serious viewing figures for.
 
Smokeandsteam said:
Fuzzy, poor syncing and looking like it was produced in a bedroom by a teenager on YouTube apart the thing that stuck me most was how dated the content appeared. Day one seemed to have been various individuals popping up to grind the specific axe that they’ve been grinding across the media for ages. Rather than a news channel it seemed to be a run through of complaints of the last period. It was also aggressively polemical rather than an attempt to give the impression that it would delve into a subject.

As such it felt like a weird historical account of what’s happened rather than news based or of now.
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Psst, I don't think they intend to be an actual news channel...
 
tim said:
Brillovision are going to sue the BBC for trying to shut them out. Sadly, I was shut out from discovering more by the Telegraph paywall.

BBC accused of attempting to shut out GB News at 11th-hour
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Details in this link -

www.express.co.uk

GB News reports BBC to Ofcom for ‘plot to sabotage opening broadcast’

GB NEWS has launched an attack on the BBC and other broadcast competitors over an alleged plot to sabotage the launch of the UK's newest network.
www.express.co.uk www.express.co.uk

Ironic they are claiming the BBC plotted to sabotage the opening broadcast, when they seem to have done a very good job of that themselves, without help from anywhere else.
 
Lolz, I just tuned in for a look. The graphics remind me of those fake stations you see in movies. Actually, even worse. It looks like a spoof. It just needs a bit of Partridge in there waffling on about Aston Martins.

Say what you like about Piers Morgan but I can't see him touching this with a bargepole.
 
Doodler said:
Watching Brazier & Muroki. Pretty boring, they've dredged up the boss of Punch Taverns for interview - bet they were hoping for Tim Martin instead. Ads for Direct Bullion.
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Is it much worse than ordinary daytime TV?
 
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The font size on the graphics look they've been designed for the more elderly and shortsighted amongst us at least. Very inclusive.
 
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