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Oh, the irony of it all
Also curious that A.N. has gone to France on a holiday with no date to return to his show.
I mean, this one probably won’t get locked right?
Flaming lefties and their cancel culture. Why cant they handle other viewpoints and.... oh wait. What an awful thing for the presenter to do this demonstrates the left wing bias in the media.
As for A.N amusingly I think part of the problem will be brexit related restrictions on work. Apparently it isnt "holiday" but that he, like many of the brexiteer elite, doesnt actually want to live in brexit Britain and instead have their main residence elsewhere. In his case France.
Bloody snowflakes.
I follow Andrew Neill on Twitter, he hasn't retweeted GB News for aaaaagggges now. (at least the start of the month.)
“an unacceptable breach of our standards”
Are those written down anywhere?
Looks like the viewing figures are dropping by the week and if I going to advertise my product I would not choose a channel with any political stance as not a good idea so would think they are struggling with advertising revenue.
Be good to see it fail as shows there is some hope.
Its hilarious. I saw the fallout on twitter.
Apparently advertisers boycotting them was some sort of leftist plot against "free speech" and was yet another example of cancel culture.
Now the viewers are boycotting the channel themselves because they are doing free speech wrong.
I follow Andrew Neill on Twitter
You have my deepest sympathies.
Hateful people. They will drown in their own racist bile.
Made my morning this has. Hilarious.
When I read that headline this morning I assumed people were boycotting it because one of the presenters had gone on a racist rant, not the other way round!
Bye bye GB News, don't let the door smack you in the arse on the way out. 😁
He's broadcasting from France?
GBeebies is now FReebies?
You have my deepest sympathies.
Oh, don't be sad, I follow a selection of the right wing nut-bars (that still have a presence on twitter)...It often brightens an otherwise dull afternoon, and y'know, know your enemy etc. the comments and retweets can often be comedy gold as well.
I have to admit I'm enjoying watching GB News implode, I expect any day now the presenters will start to flee the sinking ship, citing they never knew it was going to be so toxic and they only wanted to work on a balanced blah blah blah hoping their careers won' go down with it.
There is some shame in it though, the few times I watched it, they never quite made the leap into that parallel universe that Fox News exist in, I had a feeling that eventually, after hearing their fears being vented on TV, viewers would be able to rationalise them, but I guess it wasn't to be, too many of them were willing to accept the "Marxist clause" in the BLM discussion to allow them to find false moral high ground on the wrong side of the argument.
I doubt GB News will survive the summer, which might not be such a good thing, News Papers are on their arse, their days are numbered, peoples fears (fear is always the seed of hate) will go unanswered any only grow as they believe they're being lied to in some big conspiracy.
That Guardian article describes a real farce at GB news.... interested/disappointed that Niel Oliver is a presenter (if I read it correctly)...
Breaching our standards = not being racist or bigotted enough. Being too reasonable... who knew.
Eldorado had higher viewing figures at this point in its life - who knew that a hedgefund/hard-right think tank sponsored "anti-woke" echo chamber had all the lasting appeal of a fart in a diving bell?
I don't follow AN on Twitter, but I was delighted to read in Private Eye that he had been re-Tweeting criticism of Dan Wootton's performance on GB News.
Say what you like about him, he's not daft. He'll be out of there as quick as he can.
Ah Dan Wooton. Cannot stand the guy, when he grins his chin disappears which is absolutely the least detestable thing about him. Ol' Brillo Pad seems to have noticed the writing on the wall and has jumped ship too - it's a great shame, the guy used to be a respected journalist.
I watched it, they never quite made the leap into that parallel universe that Fox News exist in
trouble is, I think that's what their audience was expecting, a British version of Fox commentary that dominates that day's political landscape that the likes of Starmer and Nandy would be forced into confrontations and always on the back foot...Turns out that shit costs a absolute fortune, and is really hard to replicate, who knew?
He’ll be out of there as quick as he can
There goes a man watching his carefully nurtured career going up in smoke...I reckon his "holiday" in France is involving the heavy working of his phone contact list, and the calling in of many favours
Hello me understand this.....
Viewers are boycotting because someone took the knee and they find that offensive?
https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1415747756694646799
So you're anti racist - but it's unacceptable that someone made an anti-racist statement on air?
OOOOOOOkkkkkkkaaaaayyyyy.....
Breaching our standards = not being racist or bigotted enough. Being too reasonable… who knew.
"We're pro-free speech unless it's the sort of free speech that we/our sponsors don't like"
We're talking Spiked levels of non-sequitur logic here, any minute now that Brendan O'Neill guy will be on to explain that we'd have won the Euros/We'd have better weather/we'd be able to feed poor kids if it wasn't for the woke liberal elite.
Hello me understand this…..
Viewers are boycotting because someone took the knee and they find that offensive?
Yes - that is what happened.
Viewers are boycotting because someone took the knee and they find that offensive?
Pretty much. It's an "unacceptable breach of their standards" apparently, so "the wrong sort of free speech" sums it up perfectly. This is IN NO WAY contradictory or stupid..(said without a hint of irony while maintaining a straight face)
Viewers are boycotting because someone took the knee and they find that offensive?
I think that it's more a case of 69,974,999 viewers are boycotting because GB News is absolute toilet and Guto Hari (formerly one of Alexander Johnson's spokespeople) taking a knee upset someone's racist nan and tipped viewing figures into net zero.
Turns out that shit costs a absolute fortune, and is really hard to replicate, who knew?
Also not permitted in the UK under Ofcom rules.
The key learning from this, if there's a genuine cause and effect in "knee = zero viewers", is that there really were only racists watching it.
Not a good look.
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Also not permitted in the UK under Ofcom rules.
AFAIK, under their Harms and Offence the Ofcom guidance covers misleading statements in News only...Not commentary? It's one of the ways that Fox gets around it as well, if taken to court their defence is always "This is entertainment, only an idiot would assume this is news"
Happy to be corrected though.
Happy to be corrected though.
My understanding is that the terms of the license mean it has to be balanced, so can't just spout right wing rhetoric all day long.
It’s one of the ways that Fox gets around it as well,
The legal landscape in the US is completely different to the UK!
Garbage news channel . Tried watching but failed after two attempts when a black presenter said golliwogs couldn’t be racist as she loved hers as a child .
Utter garbage about nothing newsworthy really
Rosie Wright must be gutted and begging for her (brilliant)breakfast slot back at Euronews.
My understanding is that the terms of the license mean it has to be balanced
LBC do it by having Nick Ferrari first thing in the morning, and then James O'Brian straight after, in the certain knowledge that the folk tuning in to each presenter will turn on or off as appropriate..
The legal landscape in the US is completely different to the UK!
Oh sure, but the point is that that there are requirements in nearly every jurisdiction that make this sort of demand on broadcast news (certainly rules about it at a Federal level in the US), just as there are always work arounds...I don't think Ofcom is the major hurdle to GB News, Money is.
All that money and no sound deadening for reverb-tastic quality audio.
Are they still broadcasting from a black shipping container?
I haven't watched the channel, I think the positioning as essentially UKIP TV was essentially stupid as the viewers you attract are there for the echo chamber and will dump it if it doesn't meet their expectations and everyone else isn't watching it because it's marketed as UKIP TV
Designed to fail
Garbage news channel . Tried watching but failed after two attempts when a black presenter said golliwogs couldn’t be racist as she loved hers as a child .
Yep, nothing like asking someone to do the Uncle Tom act to soothe the insecurities of viewers who "don't have a racist bone" in their bodies and who often explain to their minority background acquaintances and colleagues "you're okay but it's them others. You know, the ones that come here etc".
On a side note, I reported several accounts and tweets on Sunday night for racially abusive language. On Monday morning I noticed that at least three of these accounts suddenly had a picture of young black men in their profiles together with Jamaican flags and bio descriptions typed in MLE dialect.
Wonderful that such a horrid thing (the channel and its target audience) can so quickly eat itself.
I haven’t watched the channel
Oh go on, you know you want too really...Gird your loins and go for it, see if you can beat my current record of about 2mins before I cave in and change channel. And to be honest the couple of times I have watched it, it's the cringe inducing amateurism of it that causes the channel hopping, not the offensiveness of the language (I expected that). It really is so bad, makes you realise how much proper news must cost.
essentially stupid as the viewers you attract are there for the echo chamber
Ever so slightly ironic when said on STW
Ever so slightly ironic when said on STW
I tend to contribute some dissonance
And to be honest the couple of times I have watched it, it’s the cringe inducing amateurism of it that causes the channel hopping, not the offensiveness of the language (I expected that). It really is so bad, makes you realise how much proper news must cost.
I usually try and watch Spectator TV on YouTube whilst doing the washing up as the long interviews can be interesting, some interesting insights on likely covid explosion in the next few weeks, really good stuff on the cladding issue and you just skip past the idiots. So arguably target audience except I skip past the all the tripe they market as typical for GB News so have never bothered.
Its primetime numbers are reportedly five times lower than those for the Welsh language version of the children’s cartoon Paw Patrol.
https://www.ft.com/content/b61acb58-fb0c-427f-b3f4-a12509f764b3
That made me slightly relieved. Until I remembered that it’s main target audience are probably elsewhere (ie on youtube, social media etc) telling each other that the black gay marxist scientist elites are resetting us with implants from the fake poison virus vaccine and that social-distancing is for MSM-brainwashed middle-class shadowy-jew-billionaire-funded champagne-communist bicycle-bothering wokie-sheeple
(scans room)
Oh hai!
😉
I tried reading up on the automation/AI stuff they are using but I didn't understand what it actually does - seems like their attempt at cost-cutting didn't work anyway.
The lighting/sound on the bit I saw was genuinely significantly worse than a great number of individuals' YouTube channels.
@p7eaven - TalkRadio's YouTube channel comments seems to be a particular hive of far-right bile. I guess lots are on Telegram or Signal too these days.
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Are you that Jivey bloke who used to frequent here with the paedo conspiracy stuff?
No I’m not!
But wait, you think I’m a conspiracist? My satire too subtle? Your lunchtime refreshment too strong? Enquiring minds demand answers!
#satiredied(again)
Ever so slightly ironic when said on STW
Nah, some of our best friends are fascists. We even let some pet right-wingers post on here. Balance, isn't it?
I was surprised that Neil Oliver has chosen to end his career there.
Garbage news channel . Tried watching but failed after two attempts when a black presenter said golliwogs couldn’t be racist as she loved hers as a child .
In a similar vein was reading some of the comments on their ‘Christopher Biggins Says Wokies Would Literally Hang Benny Hill From A Lampost Today’ interview (someone has to) and the fans were angry at Biggins for being a ‘wokeist’ because he said the Black & White Minstrels Show was ‘a bit much’ or somesuch.
Cue gnashing and wailing in comments, saying that ‘them blacks loved the minstrels, it was them white wokies wot complained’
So now Christopher Biggins is on the antiwoke shit-list. What a time to be alive. Who will they wheel in next? I’m hoping for Alex Jones dressed as Widow T****y doing an anti-woke vs woke’ Punch And Judy show in blackface.
It may just be the 5D chess move required to reset our culture back to before the wokies.
GB News viewers boycott channel? Fake news I'm afraid, they have to have a viewership first for them to subsequently boycott.
I've not watched since it went live - I find mega size fonts distracting so didn't even get to the content. I remember though the channel previews, one presenter said 'I didn't vote for Brexit but I take on board the views of those that did' which I interpreted as 'I'll believe anything you say as long as there's a big pay cheque in it for me!'
Until I remembered that it’s main target audience are probably elsewhere (ie on youtube, social media etc) telling each other that the black gay marxist scientist elites are resetting us with implants from the fake poison virus vaccine and that social-distancing is for MSM-brainwashed middle-class shadowy-jew-billionaire-funded champagne-communist bicycle-bothering wokie-sheeple
Its worse than that. Taking the knee is anti-semitic. It's true Melanie Phillips says so.
So if you take the knee you are basically a Nazi, and if this is true, then taking the knee is the same as Nazi salute. So the two gestures are equivalent.
So to restore balance GB News presenter will now perform Nazi salutes.
Enquiring minds demand answers!
Shame, as it started out well. If you'd said 'Enquiring minds wanna know' I'd have given you a wink emoji.
Shame, as it started out well. If you’d said ‘Enquiring minds wanna know’ I’d have given you a wink emoji.
Damnit. Need to brush up. Satire’s a minefield tho? Today feels a bit like the 1970s again when a percentage of the UK population thought ‘Alf Garnett’ was funny because the character was a bigot while others though he was funny because they too were bigots. (I was of course so young at the time that I just thought he was funny because of the way he spoke ‘silly old moo’)
At least in the 80’s we all knew what was what. Love was a battlefield (was what was what)
Now we’ve got people galvanising and cheerleading ‘fighting back’ (persecuting) against gays because a gay choir thought it was politically expedient to sing a song satirising the extreme right wing characterisation of them.
‘They’re not even hiding it anymore, they want our children!!!!!’
The song, “A Message from the Gay Community,” was designed as satire, tongue-in-cheek and irreverent, the group said. However, far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones of InfoWars, and others, purposefully took the lyrics out of context and said the song is “pedophilic.” An InfoWars online article posted July 7 brought “death threats, vile attacks, false accusations, doxing and other forms of harassment,”
Sad times. Desperately dangerous times, IMHO. No doubt many agree with that statement, but for diametrically opposed reasons/opinions.
Does that bring ‘balance’, or war?
Me and the eldest had a very entertaining 10 mins telling his mother how much we hated Alex Jones. Her response - ‘is it coz she’s Welsh?’ 😂
So to restore balance GB News presenter will now perform Nazi salutes.
Laurence Fox will be overjoyed!
Okln Virgin their channel is right next to the "kids" channel.
Makes you think.
This thread had made me take a look at their channel. I don't recognise anyone on it?
Edit: Can't believe Neil Oliver is on this cluster fudge of a channel!😐
Love was a battlefield (was what was what)
Was not, was not was, was pat benatar
"I was surprised that Neil Oliver has chosen to end his career there."
I wasn't.
Rosie Wright must be gutted and begging for her (brilliant)breakfast slot back at Euronews.
Rosie right, surely?
Is Neil Oliver a bit "toxic"?
The remaining advertisers are fascinating to see too. Bullion investments, British Army recruiting and an awning supplier to make the outdoors, indoors.
Is Neil Oliver a bit “toxic”?
Only in a civic way, he's one of those people Scots nationalists love to hate
The remaining advertisers are fascinating to see too. Bullion investments, British Army recruiting and an awning supplier to make the outdoors, indoors.
The donkey sanctuary ads during ITV coverage of the TdF are what puzzle me
Andrew Neils GB News launch coincided with the launch of the Euro's. I'm guessing that they hadn't factored in how a huge football tournament would affect the mindset of the nation, in much the Same way that Cameron failed to realise the potential consequences of calling a referendum during the last Euro's. (Putin realised...)
Both got the opposite of what they wanted. Cameron wanted remain and got brexit and GB News wanted to throw more petrol on the culture wars bonfire at the exact moment the country wanted to forget about politics for a month and get pissed whilst watching the footy.
We might have dodged a bullet, had they launched the channel 6 months ago things might have worked out differently.
Wonder how long the British Army ads will stay up? That's not a good look and looks even worse as every other advertiser pulls out.
Also curious that A.N. has gone to France on a holiday with no date to return to his show.
Being Brexit supporter he lives in the south of France. He broadcasts from their.
More recent viewer-comments are brutal since the show’s BLMgate (and their Grand Poobah shuffling off to his Fresidence)!
Andrew Kneel
Need now to rinse eyes out with remains of cold coffee. Then report to my Elite Overlords for having sent traffic to the enemy.
😵💫
How naive I am - I thought 'Woke Watch' was a parody of GB News that existed only in meme-world, not an actual feature.
I’m hoping for Alex Jones dressed as Widow T****y doing an anti-woke vs woke’ Punch And Judy show in blackface.
Pretty Standard section on 'The One show' already isn't it?
Normally they'll cut from that to a heart warming story about a Blind, sheepdog that solves quadratic equations for fun, just for a bit of absurdist balance*...
Oh right, you meant that Alex Jones...
*(I don't actually watch the One show).
So Ahead of it's time it's not true:
The donkey sanctuary ads during ITV coverage of the TdF are what puzzle me
Doesn't every cyclist own a retired Donkey then?
As for Anti-woke watch, have they seen this:
I almost yearn for the days when someone on Twitter with six followers and a football team badge in their profile would take the time to explain the intricacies of supranational trade agreements and the GATT-24 clause, peppering the text with words like "simples" and "innit".
Rosie right, surely?
Nah that’s just it , she isn’t.
She looked like she wanted the ground to open beneath her during the golliwog discussion.
She is a genuinely good new anchor.
What was Guto Harri doing when he kneed? I can't recall other presenters/anchors doing it anywhere. Surely a presenter/anchor person should avoid becoming the story themselves? But maybe I don't watch enough TV and I am not going to start watching GBNews just to acquaint myself about it.
What was Guto Harri doing when he kneed?
A protest against the beating that he was going to give to his agent for getting him the gig on GBN.
What was Guto Harri doing when he kneed?
Demonstrating that on GB News the presenters can have individual opinions that clash with the station's outlook, or those of it's editorial stance, or audience's profile without fear or favour...
So that went well
GBnews is hilariously bad
GBnewsfails in twitter is worth a follow
The fact that theyve cancelled Harri, because the channel got cancelled by its viewers, all of whom are apparently anti-cancel culture is surely the peak of irony
Meanwhile bitter frenchman & vocal brexiteer Andrew Neil has been angrily tweeting about nazis or something from his home in Provence, he's in week 4 of his 2 week break from the channel 😁
Alistair Stewart has just quit too (apparently it was his horses fault)
It is encouraging that this British version of Foxnews is failing so badly
As for Anti-woke watch, have they seen this:
In this climate a pregnant transgender man emoji is going to launch a shitstorm of hatred, intolerance and desperate outrage-grifting like you've never seen.
I remember when it was just piers morgan professionally crying over spilt eggs because of the new vegan salad emoji. That seems by contrast all cuddly and funny now. Almost. But pregnanttransgender emoji?
Expect to see a massive rise (on the current rise) in transphobic hate crime and persecution (and by extension anti-gay) 😥
Just for some perspective I read the Galopuk 2020 report:
in the last year alone:
A quarter of trans people had experienced or been threatened with physical assault.
Nearly one in five had experienced or been threatened with sexual assault
As one research respondent states:
“The fear is particularly prevalent when public figures – politicians, high profile newspaper columnists etc – demonise trans people in print or on air; it makes the fear more pronounced because you worry someone’s going to act on it.”
Will ‘public figures’ ever take responsibility and deciding stop exploiting minorities by spreading fear of minorities? It already feels like the oldest game.
Alistair Stewart is on there?
I've always hated that smug **** for no reason, I guess I've got a reason now,
*correction
It already feels like the oldest
gameprofession.