'The most striking thing about GB News is not how original it is, but how familiar it feels. For a supposedly “fresh approach", the only novelty lies in the fact that it’s on TV - it's a mix of tabloid sensationalism & ill-tempered phone-in radio.'
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Like Fox News, GB News is a grievance-culture amplification system: from Brexit-based resentment against the EU to "anti-wokeness” & everything in-between: hostility to immigration, racial equality movements, “cancel culture” & lockdowns. an inexhaustible source of cheap content.
"GB News is a natural extension of the increasing popularity of a sort of conservative grievance politics, more concerned about what pictures students have on their walls than how the economy works or the outcomes of public policy."
Wootton claims it's a “broadcasting revolution in the UK, where presenters like me are honest about what we believe”. One of his first acts in that revolution was to quote the Sun, which asked if there's "a link between lockdown & the Govt’s drastic zero-emissions green agenda”.
GB News is planted in a soil already tilled by the rightwing press. In power is a govt that is only too happy to comment on & nourish culture-war confections... the audience will be slowly radicalised, helping to push Boris Johnson’s post-Brexit England even further to the right.
"We won’t be like Fox (News) in that they come from a hard right disinformation fake news conspiracy agenda." - Andrew Neil. 🤥
Epidemiologists are "DOOMSDAY SCIENTISTS ADDICTED TO POWER! WE MUST FIGHT BACK AGAINST THIS MADNESS!" - Dan Wootton. 🤪
#NewsMyArse
#StopFundingHate
Andrew Neil is GB "News" Chair, & Tom Harwood its Political Correspondent. There isn't a serious, credible news channel *on earth* that would allow its tea-maker to tweet dangerously inflammatory shit like this about a female journalist - never mind its "Political Correspondent."
Without a decent, credible news media, democracies cease to function. Disaster capitalists, libertarians & free market fundamentalists invest heavily in news media, & this process is well under way in Britain, America, Brazil, Hungary & other countries.
But why?
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