30-05-2023, 08:34 PM
(29-05-2023, 10:59 PM)Studio7 Wrote: There was an article in one of the posh magazines (think it was The New Statesman) about a year after GB News launched. In it, it was said that GB management felt they needed something like 25% neutral, straight news content in order to keep on Ofcom's good side, which is where the news bulletins came in.Found the article. This is what it said about the news bulletins:
The New Statesman Wrote:And while Ofcom doesn’t state an exact figure, it was decided that GB News needed around 20 per cent “impartial” content: it was for this reason, one source told me, that news bulletins, previously dismissed as old-school, were announced within days of unveiling Farage.www.newstatesman.com