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

[prunus]

If Urban was some kind of mono-culture, then why the fuck do we keep having arguments?

That is our culture.

And I’ll brook no disagreement.

 

[CNT36]

I picked it up on U75. Can someone send me the correct .... thing?

That's impossible the monoculture has ruled it stupid. Keep up.

 

[tim]

Contempt actually

Mockery actually.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Mockery actually.

Mockery! Mockery! They've all got it i- oh hang on a minute...fuck...bollocks...

 

[existentialist]

Obv. the 'wrong kind' of mocking and laughing. After 40 pages perhaps I should have twigged you have to mock and laugh within the group boundaries, m'lord.

But you're not actually "mocking and laughing", are you?

You came on this thread trying to pretend to be a disinterested party, but it didn't take long for the mask to slip. It's obvious that you have a problem with a bunch of people taking the piss out of an amateurishly done news channel for racists and reactionaries, but you don't actually have the guts to spell out where you think those criticising it are wrong...so instead it's vague handwavery and insinuation about how it's all "hate" - hate which, when you're actually invited to provide examples for, you can't.

You're not the first person to turn up on a board and behave like that, and you certainly won't be the last, but don't be under any illusions that you're coming across as anyone other than someone with a bitter little agenda, who resents the fact that views you evidently hold dear are being held up to ridicule.

You'd be better off going and having a crywank, then finding a Facebook group of like-minded people whom you can happily entertain your gammon fantasies with, without the inconvenience of any opposing views. Because, not to put too fine a point on it, you haven't done or said anything here which is likely to have any impact on those opposing views. You're just making yourself look like the latest in a long stream of dicks who turn up, like you, get their arse handed to them in a sling, and then either flounce or get said arse kicked out of the door when everyone's patience has run out.

 

[NoXion]

Obv. the 'wrong kind' of mocking and laughing. After 40 pages perhaps I should have twigged you have to mock and laugh within the group boundaries, m'lord.

taps watch

Also Loose meat are you going to answer my question and provide specific examples of how this thread has been hateful?

 

[PR1Berske]

it’s not marty1. He’s been posting in the Brixton forum for ages.
I saw five minutes of this the other day. It’s basically talk radio on the telly. But without the callers. And rubbish.

That's exactly it.

GBN is hate filled, negative, prejudiced, sensationalist, reactionary, negative, all of that and more, and like both TalkRadio and TalkSport knows exactly what it's doing.

 

[existentialist]

Also Loose meat are you going to answer my question and provide specific examples of how this thread has been hateful?

He can't. Because he knows that any example he tries to claim as "hate" is going to be - rightfully - picked to pieces.

His problem is not what is written on this thread, but that it exists.

 

[PR1Berske]

Now now, we can't all afford our own midlife news channel

"GBNews, the midwife for your midlife"

 

[PR1Berske]

just so much hate
hate hate hate hate hate.

39 pages of it.

You should watch GBNews, it's hate hate hate hate for 24 hours.

 

[Raheem]

GBN is hate filled, negative, prejudiced, sensationalist, reactionary, negative, all of that and more, and like both TalkRadio and TalkSport knows exactly what it's doing.

Not sure about the bolded bit.

 

[existentialist]

Not sure about the bolded bit.

I think it knows what it's doing in terms of whipping up populist folk demons and counterfactuals. On more concrete matters, it is definitely without clue. Perhaps it thought that the power of the Gammon Mind would work as well on video broadcast hardware as it does on dogwhistle right wing politicians?

 

[marty21]

The Andrew Neil show was supposed to be a hard hitting political studio discussion show, like he did on the BBC, and like he did last week on GBN.

Yet, tonight it's fallen into the daytime format of interviewing people remotely, mainly their own staff, for most of the show.

Then finally a studio guest, the boss of Thomas Cook, a heavy weight guest, but not in the political sense!

Saw a bit of that , he was also talking about Channel 4 , he described it as a minor TV channel , which seemed a bit mean , and also insane when you see the viewing figures of his channel.

 

[marty21]

massive right wing nut job on Hitler TV pleas for .... checks notes .... transgender inclusion >>>

That has proper fucked off the gammon tbf

 

[brogdale]

I think it knows what it's doing in terms of whipping up populist folk demons and counterfactuals. On more concrete matters, it is definitely without clue. Perhaps it thought that the power of the Gammon Mind would work as well on video broadcast hardware as it does on dogwhistle right wing politicians?

Agreed; the reason that billionaires are happy to bank-roll this for the convenience of their political wing is to consolidate and develop distractionary divisive, culture-wars and move the Overton window even further in the direction of grotesque accumulation of unearned income and wealth defence.

 

[PR1Berske]

Not sure about the bolded bit.

Oh sure, on a technical level it hasn't got a clue. It's tone and content is finely tuned. It knows exactly how to talk to the "always upset", as the Daily Mail also does.

 

[Raheem]

Oh sure, on a technical level it hasn't got a clue. It's tone and content is finely tuned. It knows exactly how to talk to the "always upset", as the Daily Mail also does.

But it doesn't seem to have even a figleaf of balance. It's just gammon all the way down. How does it survive contact with Ofcom? Or is the whole point of it to be martyred by the liberal establishment?

 

[equationgirl]

I think ofcom are likely paying close attention to it.

 

[ElizabethofYork]

But it doesn't seem to have even a figleaf of balance. It's just gammon all the way down. How does it survive contact with Ofcom? Or is the whole point of it to be martyred by the liberal establishment?

They'd love to be a victim of "cancel culture"

 

[cupid_stunt]

But it doesn't seem to have even a figleaf of balance. It's just gammon all the way down. How does it survive contact with Ofcom? Or is the whole point of it to be martyred by the liberal establishment?

There's been hundreds of complaints to OFCOM about the opening night, probably more since, they tend to take a couple of weeks looking at the complaints before announcing if they will formerly investigate.

Not only do I think they will formerly investigate the programme getting complaints, but I think they will do a wider investigation, looking at output over a number of days, like they did with RT some time ago, before handing them a serious warning and £200k fine.

 

[equationgirl]

Then as ElizabethofYork says it will be wailing about cancel culture and The Left.

 

[Raheem]

There's been hundreds of complaints to OFCOM about the opening night, probably more since, they tend to take a couple of weeks looking at the complaints before announcing if they will formerly investigate.

Not only do I think they will formerly investigate the programme getting complaints, but I think they will do a wider investigation, looking at output over a number of days, like they did with RT some time ago, before handing them a serious warning and £200k fine.

At which point it's either become a normal news channel or sayonara. They surely can't have no Ofcom strategy?

 

[marty21]

Neil was talking about a Scottish referendum , he wanted all Scots in the UK to have a vote. He had an Alba bloke on who basically told him that this was a stupid idea & that if they had them, they might as well have Scots world-wide voting in it .

In desperation he turned to fellow Scot, Neil Oliver, who partially agreed with Alba bloke , and then added that for a vote of such importance, you needed a super majority , and that the Brexit vote should have had a super majority , at which point Neil said he was running out of time and cut him off

 

[cupid_stunt]

At which point it's either become a normal news channel or sayonara. They surely can't have no Ofcom strategy?

Or, they just make their output more balanced.

Anyway, they are winning in one set of ratings...

Audience complaints

A weekly report of complaints assessed under the Broadcasting Code.

www.ofcom.org.uk

 

[equationgirl]

It's good to have goals.

 

[David Clapson]

 

[cupid_stunt]

The GBNews Fails twitter account has now been deleted, I wonder by whom & why?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I think ofcom are likely paying close attention to it.

They have let quite a large amount of shit slide with BBC news, and they are definitely not even as on it in regular TV as they were a few years ago.

 

[CNT36]

The GBNews Fails twitter account has now been deleted, I wonder by whom & why?

They said they were done. Maybe they did it.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

desperation he turned to fellow Scot, Neil Oliver, who partially agreed with Alba bloke , and then added that for a vote of such importance, you needed a super majority , and that the Brexit vote should have had a super majority , at which point Neil said he was running out of time and cut him off

This is so true. Or better still, it should have been an actual referendum to understand the public opinion, and then investigate what they were actually unhappy about and what could actually be done. . . Not just leap in feet first without a clue.