Whatever one thinks of the agenda this could provide a much needed balance to the hopelessly politically biased BBC and Westminster commentariat....

amp.theguardian.com/media/2021/jun/14/gb...tter_impression=true

I was at a neighbours house today, he had it on. It's very refreshing to see some consertive news on UK TV. I still don't like Andrew Neil as a person, yet his encounter with Ben Shapiro is nice piece of TV history.

GB News is not as edgy like and entertaining like Newsmax is but better than Fox News.

Sadly Tucker Carlson on Fox is slowly getting phased out on the main network. You have to subscribe their Fox news website to watch him, which I won't. I wouldn't be surprised if he moved to Newsmax by next year.

I am not anti-vaxxer I have had several when I travelled to South Africa. However people who I know whom have had the covid jab have been rushed to hospital. I like my immune system to combat the virus which it has twice.

Green Man wrote:


I am not anti-vaxxer I have had several when I travelled to South Africa. However people who I know whom have had the covid jab have been rushed to hospital. I like my immune system to combat the virus which it has twice.

I have booked my second jab for later this week. Don't know anyone who has been rushed to hospital myself, but hope to avoid 2 days in bed with what felt like flu again...I am apprehensive about that as a recent study I took part in showed I am jam packed already with anti-bodies and my system may go into over-drive...
I think vaccines are great - you should get one GM, esp if want to see a bit of the world again...

Often, when trying to fathom the plans and raison d'etre of a fledgling news organisation, it's worth looking at the investors.

Right-wing billionaires provide most of the capital, generated from profits in a variety of markets. Currency, commodity, and emerging markets included.

A Dubai based British chap - who earned a fortune from the Russian privatisation of its natural resources - features prominently. Just as hedge funds do.

Some think that these successful business men want to do more than provide news. Perhaps, to influence public opinion - on the way to their next jackpot.

Green Man wrote:
I was at a neighbours house today, he had it on. It's very refreshing to see some consertive news on UK TV. I still don't like Andrew Neil as a person, yet his encounter with Ben Shapiro is nice piece of TV history.

GB News is not as edgy like and entertaining like Newsmax is but better than Fox News.

Sadly Tucker Carlson on Fox is slowly getting phased out on the main network. You have to subscribe their Fox news website to watch him, which I won't. I wouldn't be surprised if he moved to Newsmax by next year.

I am not anti-vaxxer I have had several when I travelled to South Africa. However people who I know whom have had the covid jab have been rushed to hospital. I like my immune system to combat the virus which it has twice.

What do you mean, combatted it twice? You mean you caught coronavirus twice?
If your immune system combatted it efficiently you wouldn't have known you had it, so it must be crapper than you were hoping.

Yes undoubtedly investors have an agenda but they may also at the same time represent a view that resonates more broadly. I suppose we are the "investors" in BBC news but it often doesn't seem to me to represent the country so much as an educated professional elite. That's why so many people get disillusioned and turned off; people pick up on agendas and don't like being "preached" at. I suspect I will dislike an awful lot of GB news; but it has a value in enlivening public debate.

Most of the UK media is distinctly right-wing, and we don't need non-resident billionaires giving us more.

TV/streaming is changing fast - with mamoth mergers happening (MGM/Warner etc.) - and this group in on the same track.

Rupert Murdoch did the same decades ago - changing entire screen horizons and making most EPL players into millionaires.

It's naive to think that these guys (with track records) are giving us new options for news. They're just following their financial agendas.

Melonie6 wrote:
Most of the UK media is distinctly right-wing, and we don't need non-resident billionaires giving us more.

TV/streaming is changing fast - with mamoth mergers happening (MGM/Warner etc.) - and this group in on the same track.

Rupert Murdoch did the same decades ago - changing entire screen horizons and making most EPL players into millionaires.

It's naive to think that these guys (with track records) are giving us new options for news. They're just following their financial agendas.

There is no right wing British TV media; though point taken on the written press. Of course they are following a financial agenda but this doesn't mean they aren't also creating new options for news. Any media that isn't state run and controlled is following a financial agenda. The only naivety is in thinking financial agendas are exclusive to the right wing wealthy.

Wyot wrote:
There is no right wing British TV media

they are following a financial agenda

Any media that isn't state run and controlled is following a financial agenda


Yet the BBC is biased! Only when challenged did you even acknowledge the elephant. Opportunism and greed - by global and powerful entities, with unlimited financial capabilities.

Attempting to take over the screens that you watch. You seem oblivious and disinterested in who's behind the channel - never mentioned them, just thought it's a good idea!


www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2021...dia-must-be-resisted

Wyot wrote:
Melonie6 wrote:
Most of the UK media is distinctly right-wing, and we don't need non-resident billionaires giving us more.

TV/streaming is changing fast - with mamoth mergers happening (MGM/Warner etc.) - and this group in on the same track.

Rupert Murdoch did the same decades ago - changing entire screen horizons and making most EPL players into millionaires.

It's naive to think that these guys (with track records) are giving us new options for news. They're just following their financial agendas.

There is no right wing British TV media; though point taken on the written press. Of course they are following a financial agenda but this doesn't mean they aren't also creating new options for news. Any media that isn't state run and controlled is following a financial agenda. The only naivety is in thinking financial agendas are exclusive to the right wing wealthy.

Well said, people forget Sky News UK is owned by Comcast. Who own MSNBC which is a very left wing. Don’t people ever travel or live in USA ? BBC I have no time for but they tend to very anti British. I’m Irish born and bred, I love all of the UK.

inlandnwreport.com/2021/04/08/here-is-yo...agenda-corporations/


uk.search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=AwrJS9ZW...2=sb-top&fr=ipad

Melonie6 wrote:
Most of the UK media is distinctly right-wing, and we don't need non-resident billionaires giving us more.

TV/streaming is changing fast - with mamoth mergers happening (MGM/Warner etc.) - and this group in on the same track.

Rupert Murdoch did the same decades ago - changing entire screen horizons and making most EPL players into millionaires.

It's naive to think that these guys (with track records) are giving us new options for news. They're just following their financial agendas.

Whose making you watch it ?

Wyot wrote:
There is no right wing British TV media


novaramedia.com/2021/01/07/you-thought-b...-be-much-much-worse/


More and more of it will be watched by you, daily.

Just so as you know...

Melonie6 wrote:
Wyot wrote:
There is no right wing British TV media


novaramedia.com/2021/01/07/you-thought-b...-be-much-much-worse/


More and more of it will be watched by you, daily.

Just so as you know...

Read Git R Done by Larry the Cable Guy there’s a chapter on conservative radio and why it’s popular.

Melonie6 wrote:
Wyot wrote:
There is no right wing British TV media


novaramedia.com/2021/01/07/you-thought-b...-be-much-much-worse/


More and more of it will be watched by you, daily.

Just so as you know...

Is it a healthy situation either to have a BBC monopoly? They have acted like the PR wing of Government on Covid for the past year.

If GB news had been running perhaps we may have had news coverage that did not blame a virus for shutting the economy down and for restrictions that have resulted in the deaths of thousands - one academic I read yesterday predicts about 500 000 in the end.

The BBC shut down the debate from day one; and helped brainwash millions like you.

I would take news outlets being run by private interests over the State any day. You have a charmingly innocent notion that media can be unbiased.

No I don't particularly care who owns these outlets. You seem very anti "right wing"; but has it ever occured to you that people may not be as stupid as you believe and actually want news coverage that is not a constant vanilla of left-wing propaganda and politial correctness?

Why should a news outlet be considered "dangerous" because it doesn't agree with your politics and you have decided it is "bad" for people? The arrogance of your position (which to be fair to you I don't think you understand...) is breathtaking.

Wyot, can you please stop talking sense. The Barney's and Robbies are not ready for it nor is the media.

Green Man wrote:
Wyot, can you please stop talking sense. The Barney's and Robbies are not ready for it nor is the media.

Despite hating football - I am sure GB News won't try book a dead person. A quick Google search on Gordon Banks is all it needed or employ people with KNOWLEDGE.

www.thesun.co.uk/sport/15331039/bbc-try-...-banks-died-in-2019/

Green Man wrote:
Wyot, can you please stop talking sense. The Barney's and Robbies are not ready for it nor is the media.

What did Robbie do? He isn't even here.

GBH News:

"advertise with us or we'll drown this kitten"

hedda wrote:
GBH News:

"advertise with us or we'll drown this kitten"


I watched some GB News last night with a friend, it's quickly gone like the rest of the MSM.