Yay‼️ GB News Channel about to launch ...

To maintain a balanced view of the news media in the UK and not hand it over to one-sided reviews?

ps - I have watched it, will continue to catch bits of it. It really is rubbish.

I don't watch it, well just for two tiny seconds.
My comment on here is that I'm getting fed up with all these controversial issues being discussed everywhere by a load of upstarts wanting to have their fame all the time.
I'm allowed that opinion. Beyond that, too right, no comment.

Oops, by too right I meant, I agree and not too "far right"! Although some might read it as that!

Technically it's got better already but it will not be the BBC will it. ££££££ makes a massive difference.

Time will tell I guess.

Everything is new and untried at GB News and I can't imagine the complexities of pulling it all together. It needs time to get bedded in and I won't be judging it for a few weeks yet. So far I can't see any evidence of the far right taking over the studio. Both sides have been presented and it all seems very balanced reporting.

How can it be balanced when it was advertised as an anti-woke news site?

Lucca

Ever since i joined anyone who didn’t wholeheartedly approve of the conservative government was called a leftie, and often loony leftie.
Anyone who wasn’t massively interested in the royal family was called a republican anti monarchist.
Anyone who dated to show support for Black Lives Matter was a member of the “woke brigade”.

Lucca: Is this the post you want me to answer? I'm not sure why because it's not even a question. What do you want me to say? It seems rather an exaggeration. These are just labels, not insults. Much worse are the continuous humiliating remarks and personal insults about people's appearance posted on these boards towards anyone perceived as right wing.

I've not seen it advertised as anti woke. I've not heard 'woke' mentioned at all. I've not heard any slagging off of the EU either.

I have noticed lots of coverage from around the UK with what appear to be local people doing the reporting. They were in Skeggy earlier. Not sure if they are there all day. I hope they continue doing that.

Woke Watch.

They have a segment called Woke Watch.

Alegrias1

Woke Watch.

They have a segment called Woke Watch.

I know
It's just pathetic isn't it
The channel is absolutely doomed, as I said upthread - it's just a load of shite

Much worse are the continuous humiliating remarks and personal insults about people's appearance posted on these boards towards anyone perceived as right wing.

I fear that you might be living in a parallel universe, Chestnut. Do you think you could post some convincing evidence (e.g a quantity) of this continuous stream of left wing nastiness?

Chestnut with reference to Maizies post above; whose appearance is critisied?
I believe that Johnson is fair game - but who else?

Criticised

MaizieD

^Much worse are the continuous humiliating remarks and personal insults about people's appearance posted on these boards towards anyone perceived as right wing.^

I fear that you might be living in a parallel universe, Chestnut. Do you think you could post some convincing evidence (e.g a quantity) of this continuous stream of left wing nastiness?

I'm not trawling through hundreds of threads to find examples. Look on any thread about Boris over the last three years for a start. We've even had childish comments about Andrew Neil's hair on this thread. If people want to criticise their policies, actions or comments that's different.

Chestnut

PippaZ

Chestnut

So the BBC and others are showing the anti-lockdown demo because it shows the supporters in a bad light? That says it all really. I am no supporter of anti-lockdown and have never heard of Resistance GB but I do think GB News should be applauded for showing what the other news channels don't and for trying to give a balanced view.

But weren't they behaving badly? You seem to be saying this new right-wing channel are giving a balanced view because they are not making much of those verbal abusing the journalist at a right-wing protest; not showing them in a bad light. Are you suggesting that a rally seen as left-wing would not have any thuggery shown in a bad light either, because that is the only thing that would mean it is giving a balanced view?

On the other hand, you complain about the BBC showing these thugs in a "bad light". We already know, from our experience that the BBC would show thugs at a left-wing protest in an equally bad light causing the left-wing that support that rally to complain. But you are calling this even-handedness unbalanced.

Have you ever thought about your own bias Chestnut?

You seem to have misunderstood something, or maybe everything? I'm pretty sure I don't really have a bias regarding demonstrations and I'm not sure either of us knows what you're trying to say.
As I understand it GB News wants to give a fair representation of all kinds of demonstrations. As for the bad behaviour we have seen, GB News has condemned this, as they would no matter who was demonstrating, just as every other news channel would. And quite rightly so.

Why not just say you don't understand? I can see lack of bias is not your strong suit and am quite happy to explain again.

The BBC is pretty even-handed - that's why both extremes complain when their thugs and similar are held to account. You seem to be saying you don't want that. You think unbiased is when the left is held to account and the right given "fair representation" or what most - other than the right and far-right - would call biased reporting.

This strange un-British channel is going all out to put forward the far-right and right-wing view. How is that unbiased?

Everyone makes 'childish comments' about Neil's hair.
Both right and left wing people.
And I've already said that Johnson is fair game.
His appearance was an embarrassment at the G7.

Alegrias1

Woke Watch.

They have a segment called Woke Watch.

Here is an example of Woke Watch covering the Police force.
Woke Watch Police

Boris Johnson's deliberately dishevelled appearance is a significant aspect of his character. It is in itself a political statement.

"Rachel Gibson, a hair historian and former writer at Hairdresser’s Journal, said most people would be unable to “look like that” and still be taken seriously. “In most jobs, you couldn’t present yourself as so disheveled and still be considered an authority figure,” she explained. Most politicians see the clean-cut look as crucial to securing the trust of the electorate and the office of prime minister. But Johnson has built a reputation as a winner despite — or even as a result of — bucking the political norms.

The development of Johnson’s wild look went hand in hand with his rise as a prominent public figure. Sonia Purnell, his biographer, said his hair was pretty much the “only neat thing about him” when the pair worked together at the Telegraph, back when the future premier was in his 30s writing poison-pen stories about the European Union from Brussels. “I think he went to some lengths to make himself and his car and everything quite scruffy. But his hair certainly wasn’t,” she said.

But as Johnson got closer to power, his hair fell in with the rest. “The further up the greasy political pole he climbed, the messier his hair got to be,” she explained.

The hair fast became part of the Johnson brand as he became a household name via appearances on British entertainment TV shows Have I Got News for You and Top Gear — with the future PM actively messing it up before the cameras started to roll. Pin badges for his London mayoral reelection campaign showed a silhouette of his head with a jagged halo of hair.

Voters lapped it up, seeing him as fun and independent of the Conservative elite, despite his expensive private-school upbringing and solid Tory family heritage (his father Stanley was a Tory MEP). “He is the most ruthlessly ambitious person I’ve ever met,” Purnell said. “But in Britain it doesn’t go down that well to be so overtly ambitious.” She said the hair “disarmed people” into thinking he was a bit of fun and distracted from his ambition, like a “decoy” or “camouflage.”

www.politico.eu/article/how-boris-johnsons-hair-defined-britain/

Yes, I watched it. Well I watched the first couple of minutes before Neil's supercilious tone got the better of me.

That's not name calling, his tone is as though he is explaining it to a rather dim 5 year old. (sorry if that offends anyone)

You said you had never heard any mention of "Woke" in relation to the channel. They have a segment called Woke Watch. Their subtitle says "top cop takes on wokery and virtue signalling". Did you just miss that bit?

PippaZ You seem to be having some kind of crazy obsessive conversation with yourself! You seem to think you know me, but I'm not part of this conversation. Stop wasting people's time reading through this nonsense.

Re Bodger's hair. I've said this for ages.
I think that it isn't so much artifice, it's just that he's quite bald up top. The ruffling gives an impression of more hair.

So this is a discussion Fanny, not an attack on you.

I don't think we should call him "Bodger" or anything else like that. It plays into the hands of people who think we just attack him for his appearance or some other trivial thing. Either that or it makes him seem like a jolly chap who is just a bit out of his depth. He's a scheming politician who has got what he's wanted after years of trying and doesn't give a flying fig for any one of us.

Further to my view on Johnson's hair.
I think that he really is that scruffy and disorganised. It's not an act.
I think that his mind, life and psyche is in utter chaos, and his appearance is the outward manifestation of this.

Alegrias yes, you are totally correct (as you usually are!)