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

Think that nails it on the head for me as to how I see GB News -

They have presenters and people on being interviewed, being paid to express backward and xenophobic views, for the benefit of an audience who see themselves as victims of the kind of stories that GB News is trying to wind people up about.

I dunno if it’s still a segment on the channel but that whole “Woke Watch” thing was an example of just pure stupidity, and what audience interaction I’ve seen amounts to viewers calling in to give their opinions with names like Mike Hunt and Mike Oxlong 😂

Just pure amateurish nonsense, none of it actually feels authentic or genuinely held opinions. They appear to be literally just doing it for the money, and even then for a few the money isn’t enough to keep them from jumping ship, if they’re not being fired for expressing an opinion which isn’t intended to be divisive, like the ‘threat’ of what they call ‘cancel culture’.

It makes sense only in regard to it being an outlet for juvenile sneering funded by other people’s money. As long as they can keep fuelling the outrage machine to cover their costs, they don’t need to generate revenue from advertising, they can just use Patreon like every other wind-up merchant on YouTube.

Flicked by it last night to see a replay of Dan Wooton covering the Northern Irish protocol. Wootons position was that the big bad EU are out to punish the UK for holding them to the terms of a deal they literally signed up to. But of course he didnt mention anything about Boris saying it was oven ready and a great deal, that got completely swept under the carpet. Instead he said the protocol they signed up to has to go and then he advocated that the border comes out of the Irish sea and onto land between the north and Ireland. The guy is literally clueless, he is like the audio visual version of 'The Sun says.....'

Unfortunately that type of woeful ignorance is exactly what their viewers want to hear and lap up. That is what GB News, if it survives will only apply to a certain cross section of society that need their own ignorant views and beliefs pandered to.

There is no such thing as bad publicity. Those moaning and complaining are doing all the advertising they need for free.

Invoking 1984 to describe the phenomenon of a minuscule, tiny number of people expressing a different view to what in your opinion are views held by the majority of people in society?

You’re having a laugh, surely?

Ahh yes but FPtP is completely democratic and respects how people vote..... only 1 government elected by the majority of the people in almost 100 years.

What’s the ethos of the channel?

"breached the ethos of the channel" makes it sound like a cult. Either believe the same things as us or you will be fired. And this from the same people who complain about cancel culture.