GB News launch

[doggone]

It's only a few weeks ago Peter Hitchens was being pursued by a baying woke mob about something or other (being there I suppose).
Something to do with evil empire statues nobody even noticed until a few months ago.

[Ribenapigeon]

[Nobby the Bastard]

https://www.indy100.com/news/gb-news-channel-mike-hunt-mike-oxlong-b1866803

One for all the simpsons fans out there
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[Ribenapigeon]

Been watching on and off today and its very amateurish. A lot of opinion but certainly not news. Its more of a rather thin political magazine than a news service. A lot of mouthy affluent media types on a nice little earner. Inb4 "but al beeb etc", yes I know the other news channels are populated by overpaid grifters

[Easy-X]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

I think they need to interview some politicians and ask the real questions we all want answered, not the usual “gotchas” which don’t even require a reply. I suppose politicians are avoiding the channel at the moment.

[chickenstrip]

[chickenstrip]

[Ribenapigeon]

I think in the pecking order actual reportage is the bottom rung well below journalistic opinion merchants and even stuffed shirts and blouses who sit on breakfast telly sofas.

[chickenstrip]

Those feckin meerkat muppets have infiltrated the advertising already! That's it, I'm out!


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[Ribenapigeon]

I wonder if Neil will it interview Cummings at some point? Im flicking between Andrew Neil and C4+1 i just cant drag myself away from the C4 news, to me uts like an eighties American soap i always imagine all sorts of Byzantine backstabbing shinanigins going on behind the scenes.

[Jmoan]

It was reported grolsch was boycotting but it's a brand with asahi being the parent company.
That's like saying your right hand is going to boycott grolsch but your left hand isn't.

[Ribenapigeon]

I wonder if Roland Rat will get a spot?

[chickenstrip]

The Andrew Neil evening slot is becoming a regular thing for me. And why not - when we used to have real news programs, I'd watch one or two regularly. Funnily enough, Neil's late night slot on the BBC before their snowflakes melted was the last thing I used to watch.

GB News beats all the others on that alone thus far. I don't particularly want to be watching tv news all day anyway, and everything else has been shite for years.

I think Dan Wooton's slot is showing some signs of improvement from the first night, when he seemed a bit too keen to air his own opinions in a rather grating manner.
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[MCN]

[chickenstrip]

[Ribenapigeon]

Dan Wooten seems to be on permanently, im guessing cheap.

[MCN]

[Zen Dog]

[chickenstrip]

It's an interesting perspective Zen Dog, and there may be some truth in it. I'd like to see you prove it? Otherwise, it's just another opinion on the pile.
Trouble is, when you look at the US where it all seems to originate from, and you see all the violence and crime that is left to go unchecked in the name of all these SJW causes, you wonder if that can be the case.

Quite possible that there's a bit of truth in both perspectives, maybe even one using the other to promote and advance its agenda, but either way, it is all hugely damaging to society.

We are living in interesting times, and it is very difficult to unravel what is actually going on. I see both the woke, and corrupt authorities stirring the pot, along with the media and much else besides. I think most of us would just like to see it all go away. I don't think it will though.

But when I listen to what those on GB News want (and I mean actually listen to it, without preconceptions)*, I'd prefer to go with that than the woke/SJW agenda. Politics is all agendas after all. Pick your side. Or sit it out and don't comment. But then you have to accept what happens, whichever way the wind blows.

*I should say I find opinions on GB News that I agree with, and some I disagree with. That to me suggests they're getting it right. If I watch BBC or Ch4, they both just piss me off. The bias there is just too extreme to hide or deny. I always feel they're just preaching to me as if they think they're the holders of "the truth", like they have some God-given right to tell me what I must think. I don't feel that with the new channel. But maybe that too is just because of my own bias. I do agree that the new channel is a bit too opinion-heavy to truly be called a news channel though, and perhaps that's not such a great idea.

It all seems to be clear-cut in black and white to you Zen Dog? I see much more complexity than you suggest.
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[MCN]

The bullshite has always been there but certain factions have maybe found a captive audience (covid sheltering at home for months) eager to find anyone to blame for all the problems in the world that have always been here.

The Internet was devised to help clear the mystery of life we know But now it has been turned on its self.

Lots of people are fucking dumb and many are easily swayed.

And I put the blame squarely on the Russians.
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[chickenstrip]

You probably know what you mean MCN
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[Weisse Schlange]

Watched it.

All I can say is that Rosie Wright must be fucking gutted that she gave up her prime spot on Euro News for this shite. She actually looked embarrassed watching the other two fuckwits discussing utter drivel.

Oh, and they had a black presenter telling us how she cuddled her golliwog and loved it so how can they be racist ! wtaf.
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[chickenstrip]

Yes, everything on the BBC is as inane as the breakfast show.
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[Ribenapigeon]

GB news is more of a symptom than a cure and i agree with the position that the irritated right is a complementary complex to the snowflake wokists. I watched this documentary on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81254224?preventIntent=true

The most interesting point it made was that one the worst things about social media is that its created an exaggerated culture of polarization where people are driven further into their own little idealogical corners. GB News just provides another rabbit hole to scurry down.