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RE: GB News - JK08 - 26-07-2023

(25-07-2023, 10:57 PM)Newshound47 Wrote:  Feels deeply inappropriate for a BBC weather presenter to be grtting involved  in partisan debates like this.

Your statement says it all. The fact is these aren't "partisan debates", nor anything close to that. These are demonstrative lies. The fact someone can come away and call them 'partisan debates' proves that what they're doing is working.

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RE: GB News - Adsales - 26-07-2023

(26-07-2023, 06:50 AM)Brekkie Wrote:  Tomasz is providing expert opinion, opinion based on facts and evidence.

GB News relies mainly on just opinion, usually based on ideology and ignoring the experts.

It’s worse, at least in this specific case. What was claimed re temp measurements now being taken on the ground rather than the international agreed height of at least 1m, was an outright lie. It was started by random climate change deniers on the internet and repeated by GBN without any research or fact checks.

That’s unacceptable even for an opinion programme. Of course it also entirely non-sensical. Ground temps reach well in excess of 50 degrees even on a normal summer day with air temps in the lower 30s.

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RE: GB News - Scrotnig - 26-07-2023

(25-07-2023, 10:57 PM)Newshound47 Wrote:  Feels deeply inappropriate for a BBC weather presenter to be grtting involved  in partisan debates like this.

He's an actual expert in his field, and in this case is correcting an inaccuracy. Not remotely inappropriate.

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RE: GB News - Steve in Pudsey - 26-07-2023

No less appropriate than Liam Dutton and others calling out the Snowmaggeddon BS the Express prints every time it's struggling for a front page

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RE: GB News - LDN - 26-07-2023

The BBC itself also pushed back against (unspecified) "disinformation and debate around temperature forecasts" yesterday: 
https://twitter.com/bbcweather/status/1683810369406394368 

I suppose some will consider that "deeply inappropriate" too.

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RE: GB News - derek500 - 26-07-2023

https://twitter.com/MediaGuido/status/1684166902468300802?t=DJaN7YzTFxIqi4Z13OHSiA&s=19 

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RE: GB News - derek500 - 26-07-2023

https://twitter.com/NicholasOwens/status/1684131482699177984?t=y_N2O1PK38cGKHLGASN8Nw&s=19 

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RE: GB News - DavidWhitfield - 26-07-2023

"Last night Nigel Farage had 150 times the audience of Jeremy Kyle" - can that be right? Seems crazy, even considering the tiny viewing figures Talk TV gets. If it's anywhere close to being accurate, that's an absolutely monumental gulf.

I can't say I have watched any of Farage's programme so I can't praise or damn him from personal experience, but he's evidently bringing in good ratings for the channel so they must see him as a bit of a star signing.

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RE: GB News - Larry the Loafer - 26-07-2023

Trying very hard to put his politics aside, he's a good "broadcaster" in a sense that he has a voice and a presence that's oddly endearing. I recall Matt Forde saying something along those lines when talking about his impression of him, and that he just generally has a good speaking voice.

I think I, as well as a lot of other level-headed critics of GBN, wouldn't be so bitter if they weren't so flagrantly in breach of so many Ofcom rules. Feel free to mouth your own opinions, that's freedom of speech, and we see plenty of it on the likes of LBC. But to do so on a *news channel*, to report on stories that actually involve you and pass comment on them, to broadcast unchallenged conspiracy theories, to have MPs interview their own MPs... Don't tell me these same people wouldn't be up in arms if left-wing people were doing the same thing on something called Guardian TV News.

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RE: GB News - Keith - 26-07-2023

(26-07-2023, 02:54 PM)Larry the Loafer Wrote:  I think I, as well as a lot of other level-headed critics of GBN, wouldn't be so bitter if they weren't so flagrantly in breach of so many Ofcom rules. Feel free to mouth your own opinions, that's freedom of speech, and we see plenty of it on the likes of LBC. But to do so on a *news channel*, to report on stories that actually involve you and pass comment on them, to broadcast unchallenged conspiracy theories, to have MPs interview their own MPs...

I believe their 'get out of jail card' is that at the top of the hour they have a 5(?) minute news bulletin, read by a separate newsreader/presenter in a different part of the studio. That way they can claim to the likes of OFCOM that they clearly separate news from opinions that dominate the rest of the programme.

As for what's deemed worthy of being in that news headline section and the order of stories is another matter. The other week when tuning into the first few minutes of DW's show to see if he was going to comment further on you know what I noticed the news bulletin's lead story was relating to Farage's bank account. Whilst the bulletin did go on to mention other world events it was interesting to note what they'd decided to lead with.

(26-07-2023, 01:39 PM)derek500 Wrote:  https://twitter.com/MediaGuido/status/1684166902468300802?t=DJaN7YzTFxIqi4Z13OHSiA&s=19 

It doesn't surprise me that Murdock has reportedly made an offer for GB News. A case of if you can't beat you rivals, try to takeover them instead.

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