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Just a reminder: GB News is not a news channel.

107 replies

TooBigForMyBoots · 22/08/2024 22:18

Just that really.

If it's not the hourly news update, what they broadcast is not news.

So when you tune in to Patrick Christie, Martin Daubney, even Christopher Hopper 🙈shows, they are not bringing you news, they're feeding you right wing propaganda with scant regard for facts and stuff.

I enjoy it, but it's not a news channel and I don't think it should be allowed to style itself as one.

OP posts:
TooBigForMyBoots · 22/08/2024 22:58

I advise you to fact check everything they tell you before repeating it.

OP posts:
TooBigForMyBoots · 23/08/2024 22:30

Bumping and repeating that everyone should fact check GB News stuff before repeating it.

OP posts:
HelloMiss · 24/08/2024 21:13

I'm an adult and will make my own mind up about it thanks! 🤨

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SeaStory · 24/08/2024 21:15

Yet they’ve discussed issues that other news sources avoid like the plague.

TBH the cherry picking of the beeb makes me doubt their news channel status. Perhaps we can compile a list?

anonhop · 24/08/2024 21:23

It's a different style of news channel. Nothing wrong with it. It's part of a healthy diverse media system in this country

BetFreda · 24/08/2024 21:25

Don’t you find telling people what they can and can’t watch a bit authoritarian?

DoreenonTill8 · 24/08/2024 21:27

anonhop · 24/08/2024 21:23

It's a different style of news channel. Nothing wrong with it. It's part of a healthy diverse media system in this country

Yep, when will people realise that the 'look you silly sausages, don't choose what to listen to, do what we clever folks tell you to do, there's a good 'un' doesn't work anymore?!

TuesdayWhistler · 24/08/2024 21:28

Fans of LBC ignore their bias, complain about GBNews.

Supporters of the BBc ignore their obsession with pushing Drag, but moan about GBNews.

"Omg they employ Nigel Farage" whilst defending the BBc that employ very questionable PDF files and Dog Fuckers.

HelloMiss · 24/08/2024 21:28

BetFreda · 24/08/2024 21:25

Don’t you find telling people what they can and can’t watch a bit authoritarian?

Not one, but THREE posts.... 😂

Datafan55 · 24/08/2024 21:29

All news channels pick and choose and show bias. Alarmingly so these days.

WandsOut · 24/08/2024 21:30

TooBigForMyBoots · 22/08/2024 22:58

I advise you to fact check everything they tell you before repeating it.

Same with the BBC

ALovelyCupOfNameChange · 24/08/2024 21:30

I thought the op was right, they can class themselves as entertainment but not news

BetFreda · 24/08/2024 21:31

Wait until the OP find out what happens at the BBC

Redshoeblueshoe · 24/08/2024 21:32

BBC think Roxy Tickle is a woman. You should fact check that

TransformerZ · 24/08/2024 21:32

You need to watch all news channels to get a well rounded view
Russia Today was good
Al Jazeera
GB News
LBC
BBC
Channel 4
Even the boring regional news

WandsOut · 24/08/2024 21:35

The Guardian anyone?

PixelatedLunchbox · 24/08/2024 21:35

TooBigForMyBoots · 22/08/2024 22:18

Just that really.

If it's not the hourly news update, what they broadcast is not news.

So when you tune in to Patrick Christie, Martin Daubney, even Christopher Hopper 🙈shows, they are not bringing you news, they're feeding you right wing propaganda with scant regard for facts and stuff.

I enjoy it, but it's not a news channel and I don't think it should be allowed to style itself as one.

EnvyHmm kinda like al Jazeera wasn't a real news channel either when they were showing us collateral damage from the gulf war -- that kind of "not real" news channel????

scalt · 24/08/2024 21:37

I don’t watch GB news, but I would hardly describe the sainted BBC as a paragon of truth.

“About two hundred conspiracy theorists marched on Speaker’s Corner to protest against lockdown.” I was on that march. The numbers were easily in the order of hundreds of thousands. I saw it with my own eyes. And not “conspiracy theorists”, but men and women, many of them with children, deeply concerned for their future.

Notmycircusnotmyotter · 24/08/2024 21:37

Just as The Guardian isn't news, The Mirror isn't news?

luckylavender · 24/08/2024 21:38

TransformerZ · 24/08/2024 21:32

You need to watch all news channels to get a well rounded view
Russia Today was good
Al Jazeera
GB News
LBC
BBC
Channel 4
Even the boring regional news

100% this.

Although technically the OP is correct, GB News isn't a news channel.

labamba007 · 24/08/2024 21:45

I don't like GB News but I hate some sanctimonious, patronising people telling people what they should or should not watch even worse.

SaintHonoria · 24/08/2024 21:45

I prefer right wing news to left wing biased news.

LlynTegid · 24/08/2024 21:49

Agree it's not news, but views. Should be called GB Views.

RufustheFactualReindeer · 24/08/2024 21:53

I don’t watch GB news, but I would hardly describe the sainted BBC as a paragon of truth

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