#81

Because the BBC are once again platforming, legitimising and boosting far-right adjacent commentators who specialise in bigotry-fuelled grift and discourse into mainstream politics via Question Time.

This is the whole purpose of GB News: Not to get viewers or to make money in itself, but to launder these people and opinions onto the mainstream broadcasters as talking heads and setters of the dominant narrative.

And the BBC are happily going along with it.

(also, be aware of quoting Hln Lws on here as a way of backing up your argument - DiSers are a Trans*-friendly group)

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#82

Thought Smart was so well connected that he would be able to call Eavis and get an AAA pass. Because he is so well connected with his celebrity mates don’t you know, connected.

Also a man that I am convinced has been having a mid life crisis for the last 20 years.

#83

Tune your TV to 1934

#84

Maybe we shouldn’t share their tweets and links on to other sites, even if it’s to dunk on them.

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#85

I guess channel numbers 1066, 1588, 1688 and 1966 weren’t available.

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#86

oh god, the hand claps. absolutely briliant, the composer’s well and truly did them there

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#87
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#88

what the fuck

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#89
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#90

i know that it’s not their direct influence that matters, it’s how it will further poison the well etc etc
 but i honestly hadn’t seen anything about this launching until a well-known gameshow quizzer posted about it on Facebook today. imagine it’s absolutely dominating Twitter atm. really, really cba to ever go on there again

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#91

There was a fair bit of dunking on Sunday evening, but the only times it has crossed my timeline since is when advertisers have pulled out.

#92

wonder if people are learning not to signal boost. best thing is to completely ignore it, including the tweets dunking on it (all of that is just free advertising)

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#93

Haha.gif

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#94
  • My friends/family watch this garbage
  • Thankfully not

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#95

Highly recommend just blocking the channel and anyone who works for them.

#96

I worry it’s appealing to people who aren’t generally that right wing. I obviously haven’t watched it but I wonder if it’ll pander a lot to lockdown sceptics etc.

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#97

If my dad was into watching TV news he probably would though. Unless he has one of his ‘personal dislikes of people who roughly share his politics’ things about Andrew Neil.

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#98

Related reading

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#99

Won’t make a dent:

'The source said that the actions of a small number of advertisers were unlikely to make a significant difference to GB News’s finances. This is because media agencies tend to buy large blocks on behalf of multiple clients, meaning they could simply fill the vacated slots with adverts for other clients.

“I don’t think it will touch the sides,” the source said.’

#100

Find it hard to imagine how someone like my dad, for example, would end up watching something like this tbh, aside from blanket coverage from other outlets that piqued his curiosity to see what the fuss is all about. It’s not like he listens to talk radio or hangs out in local Facebook groups or the comment section of newspapers, which is presumably the direct demographic this shit is aimed at.