Colleague made sarky comment about me re. GB News

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Discussion at work earlier - does anyone watch the news. Another colleague and I said we don’t mind GB news on occasion to which someone said (directed at me) - ‘I didn’t have you down as one of them’ in a judgemental tone.

Is it me or is that a bit rude and unnecessary?

How do you read “in the background”

Never seen GB news as the news programmes I have seen put me right off watching or listening to any news again

And I’d be more worried about the Guardian-reading BMA committee type of younger clinician who doesn’t know what biological sex is.

edited for crap grammar

“Entertaining”. Blooming heck, you need to get out more. He’s a racist liar, find someone else to entertain you!!

Oh god no! Not the most popular paper in Britain!

That's one hell of a stretch. What is your evidence that every Guardian reader subscribes to every aspect of their editorial policy?

She should have kept her opinion to herself. I'd be thinking it though.

I will admit I sometimes put GB News on, I like to see what the enemy are up to.
Usually within two minutes they show themselves to be so narrow minded and thick that it blows my mind.

Lots of Mumsnet posters will only admit to reading The Guardian, despite the fact that the Guardian holds women in absolute contempt and wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire.

I’m as GC as they come and I read The Guardian daily. I just ignore any article written about women’s rights.

Eh? That’s quite the non sequitur.

No one on mn reads it apparently ; yet it gets linked often.

All these pp ‘monitoring’ others. Definitely best to avoid news discussions with them.

Where is your evidence that it is either of those things? Their main anchors are gay men and females (one of whom is also black). There’s a lot of judgement here about viewers lacking critical thinking skills, but sweeping statements without any basis in objective fact aren’t doing the counter narrative any favours either…

But why is it not ok to assume this about Guardian readers but ok to make the same assumption about GB viewers?

The amount of times GB News has been in trouble with Ofcom for not following rules on actually being news... I do hope you have other media sources to balance it.

YABU

Its a very prejudiced and manipulative far right news channel

If I hadn’t said it I would have thought it.

Stick to the BBC, it’s as neutral as you can get. If you are bothered, make a reference to one of their news programmes sometime, to try and improve the colleague’s opinion of you.

In OP's case, because she apparently hasn't even noticed how biased they are and how poor their reporting is.

I’d judge this too, if a colleague said it. Farage is a demagogue- the appropriate reaction to him is horror, not entertainment.

I wouldn’t have given two fucks . Watch what you like when you like

I didn't say monitor. I said I might keep a closer eye out. It depends on context and other patterns of behaviour or other comments made, etc, as to how much I might keep an eye out or not. In my line of work, unfortunately as soon as you leak any strong political views at work, of any flavour, you're open to more scrutiny.

As I said in a previous post, I've had more problems in this regard with staff who hold more contemporary left beliefs, or are into LGBTQ+ activism and things like that, so no particular set of beliefs being singled out here. My department mainly trains mental health professionals like therapists, psychologists, MH nurses, etc, and no, it's not a university. Like it or not, we are held to higher standards in terms of being able to bracket off our own beliefs and offer patients a non judgemental, neutral space.

“Stick to the BBC, it’s as neutral as you can get.”

👀

And if she feels the same about the Guardian?

So why do Guardian readers get a free pass for not realising how biased and poor their rag of choice is?

A lot of empty-headed snobbery on this thread.

I recently worked somewhere which had GB news on in the office! I don’t know who put it on but I didn’t hear anyone comment or complain so I kept my own thoughts to myself!

Ah - apologies. I thought you meant that I'd used a vile insult (which I hadn't). I agree that it's wrong to do that, or to jump to conclusions about the OP.

"I wouldn't monitor them, I'd just keep a closer eye on them."