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DE
derek500
another_beauty posted:
In my eyes, Sky News certainly used to be leaning more to the right, and I considered the BBC to be more to the left, but only slightly in each case. Nothing like in America. These days it is not as clear, I certainly would not call either channel right wing, and Sky News does seem to be morphing into a bit of the Guardian TV channel, they have hired many well known left wing journalists for example. I do not suggest that means their output is bias. I don't think it is, but there is spin in everything in media.

There is certainly an opening for a "right wing" news channel in the UK. But it is never going to be a UK Fox News, we don't allow that sort of stuff here (CNN style etc included). But something along the lines of the "old" Sky News certainly would be something I would watch. I seldom watch Sky these days, more because of the changes more than the political leaning. I hope it won't be over the top though.


It would be good to get the 'old' Sky News back again. Remember the days when the 'left' hated Burley and Boulton? Not any more. It's full of young left wingers now who wear their politics on their sleeves. I said a year or so ago on here it's now Guardian TV. It's getting worse by the day.

Viewers need a choice. Sky News was never right wing as many believed, but now it's certainly left of centre.
AN
another_beauty
Ne1L C posted:
This is a worrying piece of news. Not because of any bias but because of what such a channel could potentially lead to albeit indirectly. I'm sure that if there is such an outlet is created then it will be covered by OFCOM (it has to be to get on the air) but if a story occurs that causes an incredible amount of outrage then the coverage given by such a station could lead potentially to some form of backlash from the public.

What follows is a theoretical situation

An accident occurs where a child is killed in a car collision. The driver is arrested and is initially charged with causing death by dangerous driving. The subsequent court case results in a lenient sentence for the driver who is instantly released by the court having already served time.

GB News goes mad and starts not just going on about miscarriages of justice but repeating the name of the driver. Now someone having seen this and having an idea of where this person lives decides to impose their own kind of justice. Some harm comes to the driver and someone is arrested.

The person tells the police that they acted because they had been angered by the coverage that GB News had given to the story (possibly some commentator had been venting their spleen).

GB News is blamed for indirectly instigating mob justice. Questions are asked in the Commons and OFCOM strips GB News of it's licence.

It's too easy for such a thing to happen


You have a vivid imagination.
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LL
London Lite Founding member
The nonsense about Sky, BBC, C4 et al being "left-of-centre" is just that.

America is full of partisan cable news channels, with MSNBC being the worst for the Democrats, while we all know about Fox News being pro-Trump. CNN is somewhere in the middle, while HLN which only has bulletins for a short period per day is impartial.

However if you watch the network newscasts or the local bulletins, there is still plenty of what would be considered by UK standards to be impartial. Fox's local newscasts (on Fox owned stations) are nothing like those on Fox News for example with quality local and national journalism with a lifestyle skew.
TM
TMD_24
From what I have watched with CNN they are very Democrat leaning. They do spend a lot of time giving coverage to Trump but doing it in a very critical angle.
NL
Ne1L C
another_beauty posted:
Ne1L C posted:
This is a worrying piece of news. Not because of any bias but because of what such a channel could potentially lead to albeit indirectly. I'm sure that if there is such an outlet is created then it will be covered by OFCOM (it has to be to get on the air) but if a story occurs that causes an incredible amount of outrage then the coverage given by such a station could lead potentially to some form of backlash from the public.

What follows is a theoretical situation

An accident occurs where a child is killed in a car collision. The driver is arrested and is initially charged with causing death by dangerous driving. The subsequent court case results in a lenient sentence for the driver who is instantly released by the court having already served time.

GB News goes mad and starts not just going on about miscarriages of justice but repeating the name of the driver. Now someone having seen this and having an idea of where this person lives decides to impose their own kind of justice. Some harm comes to the driver and someone is arrested.

The person tells the police that they acted because they had been angered by the coverage that GB News had given to the story (possibly some commentator had been venting their spleen).

GB News is blamed for indirectly instigating mob justice. Questions are asked in the Commons and OFCOM strips GB News of it's licence.

It's too easy for such a thing to happen


You have a vivid imagination.


Vivid? I'll go along with that but we are living in turbulent times.
BR
Brekkie
TMD_24 posted:
From what I have watched with CNN they are very Democrat leaning. They do spend a lot of time giving coverage to Trump but doing it in a very critical angle.

Being critical of Trump doesn't make you a Democrat.
JA
james-2001
I think I can see the direction this thread's heading in now...
NL
Ne1L C
Well lets try and turn it back before the mods step in. From a purely legislatory view I find it very unlikely that such a channel would be allowed on television. Youtube seem more likely.
TM
TMD_24
Staying on topic, I see Politicalite have been reading our forum with a few insults put in there for extras.

https://www.politicalite.com/media/running-scared-leftie-mainstream-media-dwellers-terrified-of-murdoch-news-channel/

In all fairness though, I don't mind Neil being on if this happening. I just hope this route doesn't lose him credibility.
NL
Ne1L C
Hmm. Ok I admit that my theoretical situation was OTT. I was imagining a televised version of a "The Sun Says" in terms of attacking the justice system (Must stop watching Children of Men and V For Vendetta Very Happy )

I have a lot of respect for Andrew Neil. He can make political programmes bearable.
Last edited by Ne1L C on 22 August 2020 8:36pm
IS
Inspector Sands
Blake Connolly posted:

I've heard many similar stories, and Farage loosing his very well paid LBC gig in Global cost cutting may well have pushed the idea back up the News UK agenda

I don't think it was cost cutting that lost him that gig. It was always a controversial booking but one that gained the station a lot of publicity for better or worse, and presumably pulled in a good audience too

But the straw that broke the camels back was the Black Lives Matter comments he made. That produced a lot of pressure from within Global, the staff in particular. It was at odds with an organisation that was broadcasting items supporting that cause and running a national 'black music' station
Last edited by Inspector Sands on 22 August 2020 8:45pm - 2 times in total
NL
Ne1L C
Jon posted:
I think pretty much all of talkRADIO’s daytime output is being streamed YouTube now with even the most of the interviews being conducted over video rather than just through a voice call.

Apologies for the inclusion Dan Wootton in this example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo8d0gvr5c0


I know James Whale can be a divisive figure but he is a very good broadcaster and exceptionally courageous. Get well soon.
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