GB News Launches on Social Media

Is GB launching very soon then? Is there a date yet?

And Jeremy Vine bores us to death about cycle lanes on the BBC. There's a difference between delivering news and making comment. Outside of straight news, broadcasters give their opinions on things all the time. If someone goes on a "rant" (increasingly, these days, an opinion you don't like) then so long as it's clear it's that person's opinion, not an official stance of the broadcaster or with deliberate intent to mislead (as opposed of believing something you don't happen agree with) then it's fine, for the most part.

Ofcom has its lines when it comes to these things and it's far stricter than the FCC in America. Close or not, if talkRADIO falls under Ofcom rules, it falls under Ofcom rules. You not liking it isn't a factor.

The mainstream US networks are a toilet these days. Not just Fox but ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN. The other four are just as left/Democrat biased now as Fox is right/Republican biased. If talkRADIO is the worst we've got here, then it's really not so bad.

We'll see how GB News pans out. I've never seen Andrew Neil as the Trumpian character some on here seem to think he is. Maybe it's a Jeckyl & Hyde thing and now with essentially his own platform and the tempering influence of the BBC removed, the monster will be unleashed. I personally think the reality will be far more mundane but it'll be fun to find out.

You *could* make a case that MSNBC is similarly biased as Fox News (minus the conspiracy theories; you'll have to grant them that). You could even make the same argument about a few hosts/shows on CNN. But NBC, CBS, and ABC?

Yes. CNN's the worst of the four but they've all jumped the shark since the 2016 presidential election. They make Channel Four News look Tory.

Utter nonsense, nobody who looks at US news rationally and without bias would take that view.

Not nonsense.

Maybe you don't see it because they align closer to your views than Fox. Whatever biases the BBC or ITV/C4 may or may not have, it pales into insignificance when compared to the US networks.

I wasn’t giving an opinion on rights and wrongs of what talkRADIO do. I was just pointing you can have a heavily right (or probably left) leaning broadcaster within the Ofcom’s regulation and that’s not really that far removed from Fox. I’m not saying GBN will be at that level, just pointing out if the broadcasters play the game well that something nearing that format is possible.

I repeat the challenge on another thread, as to find the equivalent pro-democrat politician compilation from the likes of CNN.



Some at Fox News aren’t just partisan, they were sypchophantic over Trump.

And I don't massively disagree, although I'd put a bit more daylight between talkRADIO and Fox than you do. And I think GBN will be at least a bit further away again.

Have they said what on screen role, if any, Andrew Neil will have?

A nightly programme I seem to remember reading.

Well, ITV News said he'll be the "Chairman and face of GB News".

I'm pretty sure I've read somewhere else that he'll have his own primetime show. I'd be very surprised if he doesn't.

If I was GB News, I'd schedule Andrew Neil as a bridge between the impartial rolling news format which is speculated to be on during the day and the opinion hours on later in the evening.