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

[Ax^]

ah sod it they should just go forward with nakid darts like live tv

 

[existentialist]

The far-right like Farage, Tice and other assorted cunts have been pretending to be plucky outsiders shaking up the system for decades, despite their wealth and establishment connections. GBN is just the latest phase of this AstroTurf bollocks.

Ahh, you mean it's deliberate? Wow, then they are doing an absolutely amazing job!

 

[Ax^]

The far-right like Farage, Tice and other assorted cunts have been pretending to be plucky outsiders shaking up the system for decades, despite their wealth and establishment connections. GBN is just the latest phase of this AstroTurf bollocks.

aye i'm aware but that was when they had an establishment to fight against

once you are in power and can get this sort of news from the Sun, Torygraph, the fail, the express, skynews, itv and a nerfed BBC

its just odd

 

[bemused]

Funny as they are, it isn't as if this was ever about making some sort of channel that would stand or fall on the basis of its professionalism. It's a culture war vanity channel boosted by the government. It can be as shit as it likes (and will be) and still continue.

I wonder how much the backers are willing to pour into it?

 

[Badgers]

I wonder how much the backers are willing to pour into it?

There is a LOT of money invested in keeping the Tories in power and making an enemy of the EU. Most said money is offshore but it is a bottomless magic money tree.

 

[Ax^]

They've just not hit the formula yet - didn't Murdoch give an instruction to Fox News that the women presenters had to have legs showing at all times?

seeming as my guilty tv crush is storm huntley and its the only reason i ever watch the vine show

don't be giving them ideas....

 

[glitch hiker]

I wonder who will be sacked first.

Either Wootto for his unhinged anti science bollocks in the face of a third wave

or 'Dewbs' for being utterly incapable of both warmth and the ability to present

I'm sure Laurence Fox is chomping at the bit, waiting for his agent to give him the call

 

[Mr.Bishie]

I’ve not watched it, nor do I ever intend to. But just to post this gem from CWS

 

[cupid_stunt]

Neil Oliver, 'mum, look at me, I am on the telly reading the weather, you must be so proud!'

Except, GB News thought better.

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[cupid_stunt]

 

[bemused]

They've just not hit the formula yet - didn't Murdoch give an instruction to Fox News that the women presenters had to have legs showing at all times?

Famously that was Roger Ailes, a man so good at managing journalists he didn't think they'd record him harassing them.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

ah sod it they should just go forward with nakid darts like live tv

A little bit of news bunny couldn't hurt them right now.

 

[Ax^]

we are not related so its fine...

 

[eatmorecheese]

Neil Oliver, 'mum, look at me, I am on the telly reading the weather, you must be so proud!'

Except, GB News thought better.

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I thought for a minute that Joe Wilkinson was trolling GBeebies

 

[glitch hiker]

It's the Happy Gammondays!

 

[bemused]

Neil Oliver, 'mum, look at me, I am on the telly reading the weather, you must be so proud!'

Except, GB News thought better.

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Has he got throat cancer or something?

 

[Favelado]

Ryder swore on TFI Friday many years ago I recall with Cunt Evans having to apologise as it was pre-watershed.

 

[Raheem]

Ryder swore on TFI Friday many years ago I recall with Cunt Evans having to apologise as it was pre-watershed.

Supposedly, this led to a "no Shaun Ryder" clause being inserted into C4's governing document.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Ryder swore on TFI Friday many years ago I recall with Cunt Evans having to apologise as it was pre-watershed.

it was about a pair of shoes iirc

 

[DaveCinzano]

it was about a pair of shoes iirc

Patrick wotsisname

 

[Favelado]

it was about a pair of shoes iirc

Patrick Fucking Cox. Cunt Evans had a bet with him before the show he couldn't make it through the whole segment without swearing. Something like that.

 

[weltweit]

Well they seem to have a good few advertisers, I wonder what rates they are charging compared to other stations?

 

[Santino]

All you need to do is laugh at them and they'll vanish into insignificance like Farage, Trump or Johnson.

 

[8ball]

Turned it on to have a look.

Quite aside from content and quality, it just has this terrible depressing vibe to it.
It's so dark. The sound is terrible. All the furniture and every object on screen looks somehow wrong. No one looks like they want to be there.
The presenters seem to be trapped in a hell of their own choosing, and for some reason they want you to watch.

<shudders>

 

[keybored]

Not sure they have the budget for one tbh, that looks like it was filmed on an iPhone

In fairness, I watched a film (Unsane) that was supposedly shot entirely on iPhones and it was pretty convincing. I don't even like iPhones but I was impressed.

No, GBNews looks more like it's being filmed using a potato.

 

[krtek a houby]

They seem to have a fair bit of support on platforms like FB and twitter. Some of the profiles on FB are a bit suss, though. Like, they haven't posted in several years and suddenly they are pro-GBN or they aren't based in the UK etc. Some of them are out and out trolls, of course.

Have bad feelings about this channel. Sometimes feel there's no going back from this, and the kind of polarising crazy shit we've observed in the US could transfer to the UK.

But. There is a fine tradition of twatting fascism and the far right, over the years. Hopefully this lot will be added to the list of right wing has beens, after all. And the UK is not the US, thankfully.

 

[bemused]

Turned it on to have a look.

Quite aside from content and quality, it just has this terrible depressing vibe to it.
It's so dark. The sound is terrible. All the furniture and every object on screen looks somehow wrong. No one looks like they want to be there.
The presenters seem to be trapped in a hell of their own choosing, and for some reason they want you to watch.

<shudders>

The set is fucking awful. It looks like a bunker.

 

[bemused]

Have bad feelings about this channel. Sometimes feel there's no going back from this, and the kind of polarising crazy shit we've observed in the US could transfer to the UK.

Not sure it's going to have a dramatic impact tbh, if the Daily Mail, talkRADIO etc can't do it - Dan Wootton won't.

 

[krtek a houby]

Not sure it's going to have a dramatic impact tbh, if the Daily Mail, talkRADIO etc can't do it - Dan Wootton won't.

Hopefully not. But it's difficult to predict the unpredictable, esp in this age.

 

[bemused]

Hopefully not. But it's difficult to predict the unpredictable, esp in this age.

Half their viewers are over 65, it's not going to set the world on fire.