Sounds like GB News have sacked Harri for disrupting the echo chamber their viewers were demanding. What's more, a senior executive, John McAndrew, has quit amidst reports he was being pushed to cut back on local reporting and free debate in favour of ramping up the culture war.
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Sounds like GB News have sacked Harri for disrupting the echo chamber their viewers were demanding. What's more, a senior executive, John McAndrew, has quit amidst reports he was being pushed to cut back on local reporting and free debate in favour of ramping up the culture war.
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Thank God for that, as it's more than likely 100% sad old shite.
With luck, you won't be seeing it on GBeebies for much longer.
Sanity prevails.
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does "unrepresentative" mean there's no gap in the market for a news channel specifically designed to manipulate intelligent people?
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One of the - I suspect many - false premises on which the concept was built was that the 'voice of the right' isn't heard on the mainstream media. But to be honest many of the presenters were already fairly familiar faces to those of us who watch Sky News, the BBC News Channel or The Daily Politics (etc). The difference is that on those platforms their views are challenged, as are those of left-leaning commentators. I'd accept the C4 News tends to be rather more openly left leaning, but with Times Radio, LBC, Talk Shite plus the aforementioned shows the right has hardly been starved of oxygen on mainstream media. And that's without mentioning print based platforms.
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As a person who is vocally pro freedom of speech and anti cancel culture, what are your views on GB News and their shutting down freedom of speech and active participation in cancel culture?
Whaddyaknow! Turns out there wasn’t really an appetite for a racist chat show in 21st century Britain. Who would have thunk it.
A few careers down the crapper there.
GB”news” - where broadcasters go to die.
A few careers down the crapper there.
GB”news” - where broadcasters go to die.
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John McAndrew, the channel’s director of programming, has also quit the station, sources told the Guardian. McAndrew, a well-known figure in the television news industry who has a long track record at mainstream outlets including Sky News and Euronews, was considered to be the channel’s second-in-command and played a key role in convincing many of the more established mainstream presenters to join.
Sources suggested he had come under pressure to dial down the focus on local reporting and free debate in favour of full-blooded culture war topics, so chose to resign.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jul/16/gb-news-pulls-guto-harri-off-air-taking-the-knee-row
Sources suggested he had come under pressure to dial down the focus on local reporting and free debate in favour of full-blooded culture war topics, so chose to resign.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jul/16/gb-news-pulls-guto-harri-off-air-taking-the-knee-row
Nope, for once, you're absolutely right, the BBC would never put something this low budget and frankly amateurish looking on air.
At least not unless it turned out to be a part of an Inside No. 9 episode.
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farage-given-prime-time-24557414
The bottom of the barrel has officially been scraped.
The bottom of the barrel has officially been scraped.
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That's the last resort of a desperate TV channel right there.
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Randy McNob
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What times's the Nick Griffin show on?
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Does anybody take seriously any more somebody who could describe the RNLI as. Taxi service for illegal immigrants, implying it should be illegal to save people from drowning?
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Straight after David Irving’s Top Ten Genocides show.
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He never implied that and yes lots of people do agree with him about the RNLI being a taxi service
Nige GUARANTEES to have the Woke spluttering on their Soy latte's
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