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

Poor Eskimo. No wonder hes back preaching about BLM after this post of reality against his favouritest channel.

It seems that the word "woke" is now just a term to disparage the concept of empathy.

No, as you yourself rightly hinted at earlier, the term itself is really unhelpful. It's so bandied around for nefarious purposes that it has lost any useful intrinsic value it might once have had.

In reality, all of this is very simple. "I don't agree or like what you're saying but i will defend to the hilt your right to say it" is the bare minimum i would expect from those proclaiming to be undying champions of free speech. It's the utterly transparent hypocrisy that is both laughable and galling. By all means, keep having a go at blm and other protests, but stop banging on about free speech. And, for pity's sake, please stfu about being victims of cancel culture when it's little more than a week, a guy was effectively ran out of the station for making a gesture certain people didn't like.

So ib your personal opinion people shouldn't be free to express themselves, in your personal opinion its ok for someone to get sacked for expressing thier opinion?

The station you laud as a bastion for free speech and free expression cancels someone for exerting thier rights and you're OK with this?

I've said it before and will say it again, you're a hypocrite.

The presenter got cancelled by the viewers (by boycotting the station and forcing them to remove him)

Whereas the station should have explained that while they were not happy with him expressing himself that way they believe he has the right to express himself. I'd you are going to champion yourself as a station of free speech/expression then you need to be consistent, otherwise you just look like a bunch of hypocrites.

It was in his resignation letter

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/media/2021/jul/18/guto-harri-quits-gb-news-as-nigel-farage-is-given-prime-time-show

"Written directly to GB chief executive Angelos Frangopoulos, he continues: “Before I took the knee on air I discussed it with my producer, director, co-presenters and head of newsroom. After I did it, GB News captured the moment and proactively cascaded it on social media.

Two days later you told me you wanted me to take a break for the summer. You did not say you were briefing papers and issuing a statement that accused me of breaching your editorial standards.

“I asked you to change that on the night – pointing out it was defamatory. You ignored my texts and refused to take my calls. I now see that you’ve hired Nigel Farage who immediately declared in public that he will not be taking the knee.

“Please explain how that does not breach editorial standards but I did.”

“You took me off air for backing the England football team making a simple public statement against racism while arguing that GB News is about celebrating the best of Britain, defending free speech, having the debates others won’t have and combatting the cancel culture. You are intelligent enough to see what an absurd parody of that your station has become.”

It is also lazy, a substitute for the equally meaningless "PC crowd"

Even Sky News?

That bastion of morality and lefty politics.

Harri's exact words were "I think *everyone* should take the knee". I think that was his biggest mistake. That wasn't the only odd comment he made where he says he didn't know of the level of racism in football. He also said he didn't understand the objections to taking the knee where at some point he referenced the US BLM link so he understands perfectly well. But I'm afraid the *everyone should* comment makes his argument about free speech a weak one since apparently he doesn't seem to believe in freedom of opinion on this matter.