New Alternative News Channel "GB News" chaired by Andrew Neil launching - read OP before posting

And it still amount to a news station that is struggling to get viewers. Gaining followers is not indicative of engagement btw... The fact that you have to jump to subscribers as a metric of success is showing what a crap month they've had...

Fox was literally one of the first people they put on the air so it's not saying much about the channel...

I'm very much against this "intellectual right"-kind of phenomenon that has swept the Internet in recent years.

Whether it's Candace Owens, Dave Rubin, Steven Crowder, or Jordan B. Peterson etc. (and the rest, you know who they are) - I honestly don't find any original value in anything they say.

It's intellectual commercialization and an appeal to simple thinking.

Many of these people trot out the same lines, such as "...we just want to have an honest conversation in the marketplace of ideas". In reality, it's about simple-minded generalizations that offers no significant depth whatsoever.

Even Jordan B. Peterson. Apart from suggesting that adults should be responsible and that we shouldn't be compelled by law to ventilate other's designated personal pronouns, what exactly does he offer? Those previous two ideas are hardly revolutionary. His musings on the religion/God question is nothing more than an incoherent verbal seizure.

Candace Owens, too, cashing in. Katie Hopkins and Milo Yiannopoulos are extreme versions of this, of course, donning an act to create right-wing controversy for the sake of it, to generate publicity, and the media appearances and dollar signs that come flowing with it. Thankfully, both of those individuals have (pretty much) been consigned to the dustbin. Milo Yiannopoulos, in an attempt to remain relevant, even "came out as straight". What an attention-seeking, status yearning loser. That attempt failed, too, by the way.

I don't see Nigel Farage as part of the above, though. Whilst you may consider him a "grifter", Farage has been consistent over the past 30-years about his desired political aim. You may disagree with the means through which he has achieved this, but he is nonetheless consistent. To confer legitimacy upon anyone, they must be consistent - and Farage at least boasts that metric in large volumes. The same cannot be said for the intellectual dark web-types - who, upon having some viral videos, decided to act up and cash in. They have no moral scruples or offer any honest intellectual value. They say what needs to be said to generate views, ad revenue, and tours.

Nothing more.

Empty vessels with not an original thought among them.