I love GB News

If 80% (if that’s true) of the British public read the papers with a right wing bias, what does that tell us?

Where are the left wing news channels Maddyone?

Certainly not the Brexit Broadcasting Corporation.

The i is well known to have a left wing bias.

Absolute nothing wrong with having a right wing news channel. There are plenty of left wing channels so why not a right wing one? It’s called balance.

It’s interesting that the public voted for GB News in the wards ceremony, is it called TRIC? What does that tell us? I didn’t vote, I’d never heard of it before the results were published, but I do find it interesting.

The Guardian and The Mirror have a left wing bias.

The "i" is generally accepted as unbiased newspaper.

More than 80% of readers of national newspapers in the UK read newspapers such as The Sun, The Daily Mail, The Telegraph, The Times, The Daily Express etc, which have have a right-wing bias.

MerylStreep Fun sponges! Love it😂

Galaxy

I think unbiased news is almost impossible.

Probably, but that should be the aim, and some achieve it whereas others have an evident and even declared political bias.

varian

GB News is an attempt at bringing Fox News-style biased news to the UK. The news channel has "anti-woke" political positions, and a range of right wing, pro-government, pro-Brexit and coronavirus-conspiracist presenters. Many are even former Brexit Party politicians – none of this is normal for a "news channel".

boycottgbnews.org/why

Easy to see who doesn’t really watch GB News.There are often left wing views presented, mixed panels all saying what they think and not getting angry or ranty with each other.
People who supported Brexit and people who didn’t too btw.
True it’s mostly anti-woke but that’s in it’s favour.

I think unbiased news is almost impossible.

The guardian has an obvious political slant.

Galaxy

Are you saying that all presenters on all channels should be anti Brexit, anti government, etc?

I thought the whole point of news was that it was presented as neutrally as possible, with no bias. We fun sponges like to be given facts not opinions - or at least, that’s what I want from news reports.

I dont agree with a lot of views on GB news, I loathe Farage for example, however I think they have the right to broadcast. In the same way I dont agree with the guardian on some issues, (Owen Jones is also a target for my loathing ) but I think they have a right to publish.

Are you saying that all presenters on all channels should be anti Brexit, anti government, etc?

GB News is an attempt at bringing Fox News-style biased news to the UK. The news channel has "anti-woke" political positions, and a range of right wing, pro-government, pro-Brexit and coronavirus-conspiracist presenters. Many are even former Brexit Party politicians – none of this is normal for a "news channel".

boycottgbnews.org/why

Unfortunately Wikipedia has also been cited as biased WWmk2

I think the Tric awards, will change their strategy next time.
No peoples vote.
It was too embarrassing for the other stations to find that in fact people (when given a chance) could have the audacity to decided for themselves what they wanted to watch in the privacy of their own homes.
That is if GB news hasnt been offcom'd off the airwaves.

Does it worry anyone that freedom of speech and action is being eroded?
It does me.

No Varian - I was surprised that someone seemed to have a handle on what’s going on. Keep the wings out of it.

ronib

Just switched on to Gb news and surprised to hear some criticism of the Privileges Committee’s second report out today. Quite cheered me up!

Why would you be surprised? Isn't that exactly what you would expect from a channel with a clear right wing bias?

I would rather get my fact checked information from EB than Wiki.

Tried to a link but it won’t work so screenshot will hopefully suffice.

Just switched on to Gb news and surprised to hear some criticism of the Privileges Committee’s second report out today. Quite cheered me up!

Wikipedia

The Daily Mail has also been criticised for its unreliability, its printing of sensationalist and inaccurate scare stories of science and medical research,[18][19][20][21] and for instances of plagiarism and copyright infringement.[22][23][24][25] In February 2017, editors on the English Wikipedia banned the use of the Daily Mail as a source

If I’m going to watch something about the news that’s humorous I’ll stick to HIGNFY or The Last Leg ( which is, thankfully, back on air on Friday).

Yes Fun Spongers lol or miserable bug**rs.

WW2
The Encyclopaedia Britannica classes The Daily Mail as a newspaper and states this in a fact checked piece last updated on 5 June 2023. You’re wrong.

New phrase to me: 'fun sponges'.

So apt, and much easier to spell than sanctimonious.