Supporters of GB News keep claiming that it will be Britain's first "anti woke" channel - but actually RT (run by the Russian government but broadcasting on Freeview in the UK) have been pushing out this kind of messaging for quite a while now...
The Russian Government's international propaganda channel RT certainly do seem keen on this "anti woke" theme...
The market for "anti woke" TV was always going to be something of a niche, but it looks like GB News may already have some stiff competition judging by the output from the Russian Government's international channel... #DontFundGBNews
RT are still at it today... Posted just a few minutes ago on Youtube. Will GB News be able to keep up with this? #DontFundGBNews
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Did you know that the "anti-woke" media narrative is regularly promoted by the Russian Government's notorious international propaganda channel RT? It's perhaps worth reflecting on why they might be so keen to push this...
More examples of the Russian Government's international channel RT pushing the "anti woke" narrative:
The Russian Government's anti "woke" TV channel RT would like you to know that Christmas is under threat from the "warriors of woke on their identity crusade"...
A quick update on #GBNews... A number of people have asked if we have any info on the advertisers who'll be supporting this controversial channel....
The latest we've seen is that the GB News launch date has *still* not been confirmed. In the meantime #StopFundingHate has been developing a system to help track & identify as many advertisers as possible from the first day that GB News starts broadcasting...
We've been trialing this system with some advertiser monitoring on the Russian Government's notorious propaganda channel RT (formerly known as Russia Today, now broadcasting on UK Freeview channel 234) and it's already yielded some interesting results... theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
In his acclaimed book "Flat Earth News", Nick Davies published a shocking account of the scale of institutional racism at the Daily Mail: books.google.co.uk/books?id=U2E79…
Davies noted: "I have never come across a reporter from the Daily Mail who did not have some similar story, of black people being excluded from the paper because of their colour" books.google.co.uk/books?id=U2E79…
In 2016, the Daily Mail was called out for "fuelling prejudice" in a report on rising racist violence & hate crime: independent.co.uk/news/media/pre…
No-one's human rights were abused when Lego decided to stop giving away free toys with the Daily Mail. To suggest otherwise is to fundamentally misrepresent what human rights are about: huffingtonpost.co.uk/richard-wilson…
Big brands are free to choose where they do & don't advertise - & customers have every right to seek to influence those advertising choices. There is nothing in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that obliges advertisers to subsidize toxic media: un.org/en/universal-d…
Elements of the UK media have often sought to appropriate the right to free speech - with the likes of TalkRadio even marketing themselves as "the home of free speech". It's time for an honest debate about how accurate these claims are...
It's clear from the huge response to the #DontFundGBNews campaign action that there's significant public concern about the multi-million pound plans to implement "Fox News style" broadcasting in the UK thelondoneconomic.com/news/dontfundg…
Everyone will have their own views on the #DontFundGBNews controversy, and on whether a "British Fox News" would be bad for our society...
But clearly those who have concerns about GB News have every right to speak out and make their views known to the companies that they shop with. Free speech is for everyone, not just for media owners... stopfundinghate.info/2017/12/01/sto…