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Mar 24 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
In 2012, Iranian Press TV was forced off the air in the UK after @Ofcom revoked its licence for breaching the Communications Act.

The grotesque #propaganda pumped out daily by Rupert Murdoch's #TalkTV would make even Iran's most ideologically extreme propagandists blush.
FFS @ofcom...

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Mar 25
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My understanding is that @Ofcom rules prohibit the issuing of TV licences to any entity whose objects are wholly or mainly of a political nature.

Last August, the founding investor in GB News, Discovery, sold up. The current investors are demonstrably highly political.
Existing shareholders (Brexiter hedge fund tycoon) Paul Marshall, & Dubai-based investment company Legatum, founded by NZ billionaire Christopher Chandler, took control.

sarawakreport.org/2023/03/who-in…
The other major investor in the holding company of GB News, is All Perspectives Ltd. The persons with significant control over All Perspectives Ltd are cited as being Marshall & Richard E Douglas - a Cayman Island lawyer with offices in the same Dubai centre as Legatum Group.
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A #THREAD on the UK @Conservatives' & US Republicans' mobilisation of “woke” as a pejorative term to describe progressive policies in general, & how the Left should respond.

Increasingly, everything the right-wing don’t like is described as woke - a scapegoat for any bad news.
This #THREAD is based on two recent articles by Gil Duran & George Lakoff, the American cognitive linguist & philosopher, best known for his 'framing' thesis that people's lives are significantly influenced by the conceptual metaphors they use to explain complex phenomena.
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Mar 25
"We are unashamedly British & we want to be Britain's news channel" - Angelos Frangopoulos, GB News's Australian CEO.

"It will be a more friendly approach to news" - Andrew Neil.

"GB News is Britain’s News Channel" - GB News.

'GB News is not a news channel' - @Ofcom. Image
Despite @ofom rules prohibiting the issuing of TV licences to any entity whose objects are wholly or mainly of a political nature, there are strong indicators that the MAIN purpose of Legatum Group in acquiring the loss making GB News is indeed political.

So, finally, @Ofcom have been forced to 'clarify' their position on GB News: "Serving politicians cannot be a newsreader, interviewer or reporter in any news programme. They are allowed to present other kinds of shows, however, including current affairs."
ofcom.org.uk/news-centre/20…
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Mar 24
Well this is more than a little fascisty: Rishi Sunak has banned the media from the "pro-free speech" @Conservatives' spring conference, with his appearance & a 'business day' to be held in secret, behind closed doors.

Obviously got nothing to hide. 😬

theguardian.com/politics/2023/…
The press & public apart from Tory members are barred from attending, but (rich) business leaders are invited to attend a business day on Friday at £500 a ticket, with promises of a “day of networking & highly interactive sessions between business leaders & government ministers”. Image
“Parties routinely sell privileged political access at their conferences, allowing private interests to lobby ministers & senior party figures, so they could at least keep these jamborees open to some media scrutiny on the public’s behalf." - Transparency International UK.
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Concerns are growing over TV impartiality on @BBC, #TalkTV, & GB "News".

A timely new study: 'Does the Political Context Shape How “Due Impartiality” is Interpreted? An Analysis of BBC Reporting of the 2019 UK & 2020 US Election Campaigns'.

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Balance and impartiality are central principles in journalism, but this study argues their conceptual application in news reporting should be subject to more academic scrutiny.
In the UK, the way “due impartiality” has been applied and regulated by broadcasters has raised concerns about promoting a ‘she-said-he-said’ style of reporting, which constructs balance but not scrutiny of competing claims.
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