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?

This is an interesting look at bias and credibility for GB News. You can look up other news organisations on there too for comparison.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/gb-news-uk-bias/

For thise who dont want to click... BBC news and Channel 4 news score "high" on factual reporting, and ITV NEWS "mostly factual" compared to GB News which scores "mixed".

That comment was unhinged. They stalked an employee and fired him because he bought a newspaper!

The Stasi would have loved that person.

The 1960s and 70s need a good scolding, then. Harold Wilson, prime minister, was usually referred to as Harold.

😆 🤣 we know by which other name the Stasi was known 😉

Obviously not but ‘gammon’ is not racist.
It’s about people who are dim and easily led. Nowt to do with race.

Nope, it's a racist slur. And it's not "OK when you do it".

From the link...

Overall, we rate GB News Right Biased and Questionable based on a lack of transparency with ownership and funding, numerous failed fact checks, and the promotion of conspiracy theories and pseudoscience.

But OP didn’t say GB News was one of a variety of news outletd sge watched - it was the ONLY one she mentioned

It certainly is racist and this lot would be in a tizz if they knew that Femi had also agreed with this. It pertains to the colour of white skin turning pink.

Why are they called gammon and not something else though?

I’d always taken it to be a stereotyped reference to their (ruddy white) complexion.

And it’s a reference to a certain type of dyspeptic, usually older, usually male, white person. Not just a word for anyone who is dim and easily led.

Is that wrong do you think?

Of course it’s racist!

It’s likening (specifically) white people to (the insult) pigs!

@Azdcgbjml

I note that Media Bias says of GB News, justifying their categorisation of it being far-right and unreliable:

Many opinion stories oppose cancel culture and are often critical of the so-called “woke” movement Nana Akua on ‘ridiculous’ number of gender pronouns.

We have just had a Supreme Court ruling that effectively confirmed that gender identity is a marginal minority belief system that has no more weight in British law than any other unevidenced belief system. So you might say that GB News was in line with majority opinion and the law on that issue and that Media Bias is...well, biased in giving too much credence to a very niche belief system.

As I mentioned earlier, there have always been groups of people who the majority are united by (and encouraged to) humiliate, abuse, minimise and sideline.

These trendy insults are just the latest example.

It’s embarrassing that they can’t see that it’s just the 2025 version and no more progressive than when it was done to any other groups of people.

That is not what the Supreme court said at all.

Lord Hodge stressed that trans people are still protected under the Equality Act from discrimination and harassment.

I am a senior lecturer in science media, so I have some back up to my view. I use GB news for fringe content on things like vaccine injury to illustrate the way different political leanings change the content and framing of various issues. It's fair to say I simplified my characterisation of it for this social media conversation to fit what OPs colleagues are likely to think of it.

I lived for many years in one of the most diverse areas of the country. I knew two UKIP members. Lost touch with both but I'd guess they'd be Reform voters now.

One did indeed fit the gammon stereotype (and it is racist, or at least racial; it refers to the shade a white person stereotypically goes when angry). The other was a black man who grew up in Hackney.

Going by my neighbours, plenty of British people from second or third generation settled immigrant familes are no keener on more immigration than your classic "gammon".

And why should they be? The economic and social context when their parents of grandparents or even themselves came here was different to today, the countries people are coming from are not the countries they came from, they are as much British as any other Briton so why should they automatically be in favour of further immigration?

Really it's kind of racist to assume the only people who are anti/cautious about immigration are white. My Windrush generation neighbour grumbled about Albanians. Most of the Indian heritage people I know voted for Brexit. As the token wet white liberal I was probably the most pro immigration.

Life is not simple, nor is it black and white.

Can you explain further. I am vaccine injured. It didn’t throw me into the arms of Reform. However I don’t really trust any of the political parties. I still vote but it’s a struggle.

What do you want me to explain?

GB News isn't news. It's a propaganda channel that exists to misinform. It's paid for by people that want you think in a certain way by appealing to your baser instincts. If you don't like the BBC, watch ITV , C4 or Sky News. They all broadly speaking play it straight. GB News doesn't.

Yes, just as are people with a wide range of odd religious and philosophical beliefs. You're right, people who identify as transgender are, just like everyone else, protected from harassment and discrimination by the Equality Act.

Two words: Jon Snow.

Every news outlet frames issues with an editorial slant.

What do you mean by‘fringe content’? The only programme I saw on the BBC was an awful documentary by Hannah Fry where she mocked the idea of vaccine injuries. Come to think of it I no longer think of the BBC as unbiased any longer.