AIBU to ask your opinion of GB News?

[GingerCream45]

A friend recommended it. Have listened a few times. Just seemed to be endless discussions about stopping the small boats. Presumably this is a hard right leaning Station?

Examples please. You need to back up that claim.

You don’t left wing echo chambers exist?

Not sure why anyone could make that claim

I've only watched it occasionally but I don't mind GB News. Most news channels have an agenda of some sort.

But the production quality looks a bit low-end in terms of the set and graphics.

The brexit referendum for one thing

According to a GB News poll, most Leave voters regret voting Leave. Its one of my favourite GB News moments.
https://www.thepoke.com/2022/11/21/watch-moment-gb-news-presenter-realises-poll-went-against-brexit/

Hahahaha

I watched GB News to laugh at the farcical amateurishness when it launched, but I’m not a regular viewer these days. I understand why some people do watch it, though. It’s good that viewers now have a real choice.

I’m on the centre-left, and even I get exasperated with the constant, relentless woke / green / multicultural propaganda which passes for ‘news’ on the BBC, so goodness knows how much it must piss off right wing people. If the BBC was genuinely impartial rather than blatantly biased GB News wouldn’t need to exist.

If you read the Guardian and watch c4 news then you'll hate GB news.

‘If you read the Guardian and watch c4 news then you'll hate GB news.’

lemme fix that for you, sparky. If you can read then you’ll hate GB news’

Ouch

Why are people like you unable to have a conversation without resorting to insults? It is SOOOOOOO boring!

Exactly. Consistently rates higher than BBC and Sky.

At least they're daring to do something different.

If people don't like it, they know where the off button is.

This!

Brexit showed us that people really need to take 'polls' with a pinch of salt. All the polls said we'd remain!

You only have to look at all the sneery comments on this thread to understand why the 'majority' still choose to stay 'silent'.

Tbf, the polls showed Remain winning by the slimmest of margins and may actually have been entirely correct in recording preferences, but I do think Leave voters were more likely to turn out to vote on the day.

I’d venture that Leave supporters were the motivated (loud, even) minority, not the silent majority.

Are you disparaging GB News polls?

I find sites like https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ to be be helpful.

According to them (and similar organizations have similar ratings);

BBC and Sky News: highly factual reporting and centrist (a very marginal left wing bias, but not to the point that they even approach being centre-left)

Channel 4: highly factual but a clear centre-left bias

GB News: somewhat factual with an extreme right wing bias

It’s interesting that, absent GB News, none of the major news channels were found to have a right wing bias at all. BBC and Sky News are essentially centrist but to the extent they have any lean, it’s very slightly to the left.

The print media in the UK is very different and mostly has a right wing bias - I imagine the disconnect between the biased print media and the relatively unbiased BBC and Sky News is part of what causes so many on the right to perceive a strong left wing bias on those stations (and, similarly, those who get their news predominantly from left wing sources like the Guardian to view those centrist networks as having a right wing bias).

It’s a shame that relatively balanced reporting is losing popularity though and it doesn’t bode well for the future of UK politics.

And unfortunately, most of the most biased of the general public, left and right, will label organizations that review media biases as being biased themselves.

I’d venture that Leave supporters were the motivated (loud, even) minority, not the silent majority

I wouldn't. Am convinced they're the majority, but they know to keep quiet unless they want to be vilified, in much the same way people have been on this thread.

I think you can editorialize either way but it’s essentially unprovable either way, given a 4% margin and turnout of slightly above 70%.

Personally I perceive Remain-supporters to have been less likely to turn out to vote (radical change being a better motivator than status-quo), and that would account for the slight disconnect between polls and results - but it’s not the only viable explanation - a slight systemic polling error is definitely possible too…and, ironically, the most reliable way to investigate would be with more polls…which are fallible.

I don’t think Leave voters were the loud minority. If they were then it would have lost, not won.

Agree people get vilified too, so people are more likely to avoid contributing

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Agree people get vilified too, so people are more likely to avoid contributing

It's pretty obvious on MN threads where Conservative voters are called evil, racist, uneducated, ignorant (just a few I've seen in the last couple of months). They're hounded off threads until it becomes a happy echo chamber of left wing righteousness.

I may vote Conservative but I'm confident that I read a wider range of press on both sides of the political spectrum than plenty of Labour supporters.

‘As opposed to a channel with airhead left wing presenters who cater for the airhead left wing market? Like basically ALL of the mainstream media! 😫’

ah, the fake news, conspiracy nuts have woken up… hallo there, you alright?

Why are people like you unable to have a conversation without resorting to insults? It is SOOOOOOO boring!’

ah, my bad. I didn’t realise that calling people who watch actual news ‘airheads’ was meant as a compliment… not an insult…

Yes I was surprised at a pp demanding evidence of left wing echo chambers

You only have to look at how many mn threads go, typically the same posters hounding other views off them

The media like the government and much of Mumsnet were totally out of touch with reality, hence why the Brexit vote was such a shock to many here.

It was funny on the night, late late when it began to be clear which way the wind was blowing, various commentators with their eyes popping out on stalks, and that fake prick Farage had already conceded early.