Colleague made sarky comment about me re. GB News

[OneStepBeyondd]

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?

Your post doesn’t make sense.

Well, I can't help you there. 🤔

Why on earth do you listen to that load of hyperbolic tripe? It's appalling and aimed at brainless sheep!

If someone said they didn't have you down as someone who would listen to that, they are actually paying you a compliment. Try to live up to it for goodness sake.

Nobody would have me down as a GB News supporter but then I am not a brainless xenophobe scared of people in boats and imagining hoards of men marching the streets with machetes. I live in the real world which is not all bad by any means..

Get real and keep better company. You were given a brain cell, exercise it.

I’ve watched it occasionally depending on what the thumbnail says (Youtube), only for a minute as I have the attention span of a gnat. I’m not left or right politically. 🤷‍♀️

Thumbnail usually being what latest daft thing Prince Harry has done or something like that, not political thumbnails.

Then why is GB News your information purveyor of choice? Why is that where you choose to get your news?

That rather depends on what the political opinion is, doesn't it?? If someone's political opinions involve racism and supporting racists then that person is grotty and deserves to be told why their opinions are utterly ridiculous. Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequence: and the consequence of supporting unpleasant political opinions that have no basis in fact is that you should expect people to disagree with you and to disagree stridently. If you don't like that then too bad. Same goes for people who support a convicted felon who has confessed multiple times to groping women. There's no way someone who supports that kind of horrific behaviour should be "looked up to".

I watch Russia Today from time to time
Fascinating
Just Google RT⁰

Nige used to do a great segment called ‘talking pints’ (I’m not sure if it’s still going) - there would be a wide range of guests on that, a lot of sports people etc. I know the followers of the guests would often tune in - I suppose they all turned into extreme right racists too 😂

She said she watches it occasionally.

YANBU. However, bizarrely, it seems like every poster on here has watched it as well so they are obviously "one of them" too.

Quite. This is increasingly becoming a label used to discredit and dismiss anything that does not conform to current 'right' thinking. In the same way, the MAGA crowd have their 'commie lefty' enemies.

We simply have to polarise things these days; it's either far left or far right. With us or against us. None of that 'nuance' nonsense. What's happened to just 'right wing' and 'centre right', 'centre left' etc???

I will watch whatever news is on and believe none of them without confirmation from elsewhere. It's not helpful to only listen to reports from one source because each has a different agenda. There doesn't seem to be much journalistic integrity around.

She was asked if she watched the news and she said she watched GB News occasionally. So, that’s the only news she watches. I’m asking why.

YABU to watch GB News.

I agree, some people just come here looking for an "echo chamber".

Not in the slightest.

You've lost me. Where is the link with earnings in what I wrote? Academics are not high earners as a rule, and neither are those of us working in my field. As I stated in my initial post, "Political views aside," there is a spectrum of political opinion in my place of work, but we're all expected to keep informed and professionally curious.

Your response has EXACTLY proved her point!!!! 👏

As opposed to the forum for varied and diverse opinions and viewpoints that is GB News.

Apologies, I should have said in my experience.

Watching a variety of news sources is good for you! Otherwise you end up believing that everything you disagree with is ‘far Right’. People don’t even know what that term means but they keep saying it anyway.

@MyLimeGuide Using the phrase ' the lefty mind' just shows the level of your biased thinking.

My perception of 'GB News' is that it's not news at all. It exists to try to upset people. They want to wind you up & get you angry. Not at them, just at x in the world.

It's the same business model for engagement on Facebook and maybe other SM: Angry reactions are prioritised. If you get angry at something you'll see lots more like it in your feed. Engagement = monetisation, it's a way to capture your eyeballs & then see the adverts. Facebook rates 'sad' as the next highest engagement reaction, while likes or hearts or cares are all rated in the lowest tier.

Anyway, I rather purposefully don't engage with anything that is trying to make me outraged or upset. I don't understand wanting to do that... but it is obviously very popular to do. You see it on MN, too. People enjoy getting angry or outraged.

I am fond of a housebound person I help out regularly & she has GB News on very often. I have only said the last part to her, "I wouldn't watch anything regularly that consistently seems to upset me."

As a BAME woman, I would give you a wide berth.

Fair point.