26-01-2023, 09:52 PM
(26-01-2023, 05:18 PM)Skygeek Wrote: I think to call oneself a "dedicated" news channel ought to involve actual news *coverage*.First things first, whatever you think of signing up politicians to present or of Mr Rees-Mogg personally. I think it’s hard to argue that it isn’t a fantastic signing. Probably one of the few serving politicians with enough brand recognition to pull in additional viewers.
Y'know... foreign bureaus and in-depth reporting as opposed to lengthy studio discussionss where everyone apart from one browbeaten leftie agrees with each other, before throwing to some tadpole of a reporter fresh out of uni on the end of a bad 4G connection standing next to a bloke with a sign saying "Keep Channel migrants out of our Northamptonshire village".
Oh, and that's having not bothered with even cursory news bulletins for the first several months. Definitely "dedicated".
With regards to your post I think a lot of it is unfair, it is objectively a news channel. It discusses and reports on news stories more or less all day. Whether you like the content or not isn’t really relevant, it’s trying to do something different to Sky or the BBC. And I say that as someone who largely isn’t a fan of the editorial agenda.
I think criticisms of them not having news bulletins when it first started aren’t relevant to the the point either. And your dig about dodgy 4G connections, isn’t really fair as technically I’d no more expect to see technical errors on GB News than any of the other news channels.
Don’t get me wrong, there is lots I wish they’d change about GB News and you’re not getting the quality of international journalism you get from Sky and the BBC but it simply isn’t correct to say it isn’t a dedicated news channel. And I’d also say it’s a lot more engaging than the output from the competition.