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Both #GBNews & #NewsUK are about to launch Fox News style channels in the UK.

Despite Mr Neil saying 'wait & see', it's obvious to a child that both channels will try to drag public opinion EVEN FURTHER Right.

What to do?

#DontFundGBNews

washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/medi…
As Fox News ratings began to plummet after Trump's defeat, with their audiences seeking even further right-wing channels, & with profit as the one true religion at Fox, something had to change, so according to a number of reports, Murdoch stepped in to call the shots directly.
Most notably, the network decided to add an hour of opinion programming to its prime-time offerings.

The 7 pm hour will no longer be nominally 'news', but straight-up #outrage production.

Why? Because that’s where the ratings (& ad revenue) are!
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In pre-Leveson 2007/8, a Select Committee on Communications examined "The ownership of the
#news".

With the imminent launch of Fox-News-Style #GBNews AND Rupert Murdoch's #NewsUK, I just wanted to highlight some of the entirely sensible recommendations:

publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200708/ld…
374. "The relationship between policy makers and the media is a legitimate area of public interest. We therefore propose that politicians in all parties are open & candid about their meetings with media owners & editors." Image
375. "We do not accept that the increase of news sources invalidates the case for special treatment of the media through ownership regulation. There is still a danger that if media ownership becomes too concentrated the diversity of voices available could be diminished." Image
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The news media is a crucial institution for democratic decision-making, providing much of the information on which citizens base their political choices.

Unfortunately, powerful interests have co-opted them to disseminate #propaganda.

#GBNews
#NewsUK

eprint.ncl.ac.uk/file_store/pro…
'Institutional processes lead the news media to propagate output supportive of dominant state-corporate elite interests... powerful agents and groups intentionally manage the news arena and thereby guide journalistic selection and production processes.'
"As a consequence, journalists produce and distribute #propaganda without intending to do so and on behalf of dominant state-corporate interests. Theoretical conceptualisations of what constitutes propaganda can be applied with validity to the content structures of media texts:
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