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Lee Anderson has today been promoting his "exclusive scoop" interview with Home Secretary Suella Braverman, which will air tomorrow night on GB News. 
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Incredibly, this comes literally 10 days (!!) after Ofcom found that GB News had breached impartiality rules when Conservative MPs Esther McVey and Philip Davies interviewed the Chancellor. www.bbc.co.uk  

Ofcom said the programme was "overwhelmingly reflective of the viewpoints of different strands of opinion within the Conservative party", and that the interview had failed to include "an appropriately wide range of significant views", and consequently found GB News in breach of its rules. 

Lee Anderson is the Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party. He is a self-appointed general in the culture wars, frequently using immigration as an issue to fuel outrage among his supporters. He recently stated that any asylum seeker complaining about being housed on a barge like the Bibby Stockholm "should f**k off back to France". He said in the Commons that housing "illegal immigrants" in temporary hotel accommodation "leaves a bitter taste in my throat", adding that we should instead "send them straight back the same day". 

Is anyone seriously expecting that Anderson will ensure "an appropriately wide range of significant views" are presented, as he interviews the Home Secretary about her views on immigration, many of which he publicly shares? What balance can there possibly be in an interview between two like-minded colleagues who are both on the far-right of their political party? 

How does this interview not end up in another breach of Ofcom rules?
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(28-09-2023, 02:47 PM)Transmission Wrote:  It's been clear that for some time now there's some tension within GB News between the two sides of its output, the side that is a right-leaning news channel employing some good quality journalists and the side that is a fringe/radical right-leaning opinion channel employing conspiracy theorists and controversialists. It'll be interesting to see how it is once the dust settles and how far (or not) it dials back on the type of output that Wooton and Fox were involved in.

GBN has a split personality that is for sure. It seems that "right wing" and "conspiracy" are interchangeable and it's damaging the brand. GBN can become a very powerful right-wing/leaning station (although not in the Fox News vein) but it has to use this incident as a spur to get their act sorted.
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According to the OFCOM Chief Exec on C4 News, they now have 12 active investigations into GB News currently taking place

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(28-09-2023, 08:31 PM)Humphrey Hacker Wrote:  GBN has a split personality that is for sure. It seems that "right wing" and "conspiracy" are interchangeable and it's damaging the brand. GBN can become a very powerful right-wing/leaning station (although not in the Fox News vein) but it has to use this incident as a spur to get their act sorted.
Split with what?  Their entire schedule is build around right wing conspiracies and every presenting decision in the last year has double downed on that 

I still don't get how the MPs acting as presenters is even an option considering the OFCOM rules not only prevent them acting as newsreaders but also as interviewers in news programmes too.
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Have watched a bit tonight.... it's basically a right wing and poorly financed GMB on all day with lots of z listers giving their opinion on "the woke"....
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(28-09-2023, 08:51 PM)Brekkie Wrote:  Split with what?  Their entire schedule is build around right wing conspiracies and every presenting decision in the last year has double downed on that 
I still don't get how the MPs acting as presenters is even an option considering the OFCOM rules not only prevent them acting as newsreaders but also as interviewers in news programmes too.

Because GBN claim it is current affairs, not news, which is allowed under OFCOM rules. Something that clearly needs tightening up. (I imagine it was intended for something like HIGNFY)

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Claims from Popbitch, so I'd be cautious about the accuracy of them.

They allege that Dan Wootton was told on talkback to reign Laurence Fox in which he didn't, then an apology was drafted which Dan refused to read on-air by skipping it on the autocue. They then allege senior management called Dan to get him to apologise and still refused.

If that really is the case, then there are grounds for dismissal.
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(28-09-2023, 10:51 PM)London Lite Wrote:  Claims from Popbitch, so I'd be cautious about the accuracy of them.

They allege that Dan Wootton was told on talkback to reign Laurence Fox in which he didn't, then an apology was drafted which Dan refused to read on-air by skipping it on the autocue.  They then allege senior management called Dan to get him to apologise and still refused.

If that really is the case, then there are grounds for dismissal.
If verified, this is quite remarkable. For any on-air presenter to ignore instructions from the Editor, irrespective of which news channel they’re presenting on, is something bordering gross misconduct. To ignore it twice is just stupid.
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(28-09-2023, 10:37 PM)TIGHazard Wrote:  Because GBN claim it is current affairs, not news, which is allowed under OFCOM rules. Something that clearly needs tightening up. (I imagine it was intended for something like HIGNFY)

www.ofcom.org.uk 

Very probably. GBN shouldn't have labelled itself a news channel. It would have been  better off saying to OFCOM "we are a current affairs based channel who will provide a different slant to the issues of the day"
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