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?

Is the OP saying that she never watches the news, but when there’s nothing else on tv she’ll watch gb news?
that’s even more painful than always watching gb news!

This. Sorry but I would judge you aswell!

There's always someone else doing something, I've found that out as I've got older. Makes it feel less lonely, and it's fun to find kindred spirits. 😊

Do you mean the Stop Funding Hate that likened MN to Breitbart and joined a successful push to have MN advertisers pull funding?

www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/flora-pulls-mumsnet-partnership-transphobia-complaints/1662305

Love Michelle Dewberry and Nana Akua. I watch and read clips from lots of different media sources and I’d rather watch clips from these two than read anything from the Guardian, that continues to post shite from Owen Jones.

I’d be really disappointed that anyone I knew and liked could find Nigel F entertaining

I voted YANBU, even though I wouldn't want to know or associate with anyone that watches that disgraceful 'news' channel

Antivax
Bigoted
Covid denying
Far right
Spreads hate.

However, that is your choice to watch it. If you do, it tells me all I need to know about you as a person.

In my twenties, I used to buy the Daily Mail every day for the crossword. I had to stop buying it when I realised its bias. It was a shame - that crossword got me through an extremely boring job!

I mean the Stop Fund Hate who along with Ofcom have pulled them up on their misogyny and homophobia. There is compilation of some
of the many extreme misogynistic comments on the channel and it’s quite shocking.

So in answer to the op YABVU

Well, that fact OP, says a lot about you. You’re colleague was being too honest.

Whether you agree with them or not, TT is a pressure group (so it naturally is selective in information it publishes), and a single-issue one (where that issue is more associated with socially-conservative views). Of course they are going to score high for bias, and to the right.

Personally, I don't like the same level of bias in general news organizations (but I do acknowledge that's a value judgment).

No, it really doesn’t. The vast majority of even vaguely intelligent people are capable of critical thinking. 🙄

Ten thousand times so!

People call it GBeebies for a reason.

I might have used different words but agree with the sentiment and do not consider it rude.

GB News should be called GB Views, as it is a programme about news stories, not a news programme. Whilst I dislike the Daily Mail, I think it unfair to compare it with GB News as it is positively moderate and balanced by comparison.

Understandable though unkind to children.

Welcome Jeremy Corbyn’s wife .

Well they’re not are they if they’re choosing to view , support and fund a channel spewing hate , homophobia, misogyny….

Is that all you’ve got as a come back?🤣

You've always had to pay for over a century

@QurikySparrowHatrack I agree the appropriate standard for a pressure group is different from a news site.

(I’m not certain that a pressure group is intrinsically biased though).

But TT is critical of gender norms and comes from a feminist perspective, not a conservative one. Yet it was rated at the extreme end of Right by that site.

That suggests to me that they don’t do their homework.

Spiked is another (odd) example. Founded by the staff of Living Marxist but now home to left and right libertarian and unorthodox opinion. It just got a straightforward Right rating, with no mention of its far left heritage anywhere in the write up.

For a site set up to analyse a full spectrum of the media, it doesn’t seem to handle the non-mainstream very well.

its very apt .

Im ashamed to say I might have said this 18 months ago, like most people I Ive been brainwashed by mainstream media. GB News is not perfect, but they do address a lot of issues that mainstream media will not touch. And watching GB news has opened my eyes to how BIASED the BBC is, so much so that I cancelled my licence. And I had been a long term Guardian reader and they went the way of the BBC a long time ago, their journalists are full on Social Justice Warriors. The more I watch GB news the more obvious the bias becomes. Just look at how we all behaved in lockdown, its becoming like Brave New World/1984.

You’ve gone from the guardian and BBC to GB news- yeah we believe you.😂

Yes. Me too.