13-03-2023, 11:21 PM
(13-03-2023, 11:10 PM)matthieu1221 Wrote:This separation that some people have that there's a fox news esque viewer base that is somehow different to the rest of society is nonsense.(13-03-2023, 10:25 PM)JMT1985 Wrote: Wow, I just decided to pop back to GB News and Talk TV tonight to watch 5 to 10 minutes each from 9pm. GB News was appalling and Talk TV was actually fairly decent.
GB News had Dan Wootton back from his holiday, and he got into a slanging match with Benjamin Butterworth about the Lineker story, and of course being GB News, totally unbalanced, as there was Carol Malone and another right winger either side of Benjamin, both agreeing with Dan, as they shouted down Benjamin when he tried to make a point, with Dan entering into a rant how the BBC should be de funded.
Talk TV actually looked sane. The Talk show, with the four panel members talked without shouting over each other. They covered the Lineker story, but in a much balanced way. I never ever thought I would say that a Murdoch owned station would have a show which was balanced.
One rates well, one doesn't.
Problem is, people don't equate TalkTV with balanced. And then again, even if they did, would they even switch away from whatever they are watching now?
GB News has tapped into a very FOX News-esque viewerbase. Why change anything if it's rather successful? For every viewer they gain by being a little more balanced, they might lose a viewer who likes it as it currently is. There's 0 incentive for them to be a little more balanced.
You only need to look at the morons and extremists targeting Fiona Bruce for doing her job as instructed by producers and required by fairness provisions of the Broadcast Code and BBC equivalent, to understand that Left and right have a base of unhinged people who only tolerate views and expression through there lens
The same unhinged go looking on social media for views to reinforce their own and target the opposition like its a war, and feel smug with likes and retweets as if that time spent in their life was meaningful (spoiler, it wasn't)
YouTube the feistier This Morning stuff until 2012, old loose woman, GMB Piers rants etc to see that Dan Wooton and GB NEWS isn't that dissimilar and entertainment format.