17-06-2023, 04:41 PM
(17-06-2023, 03:50 PM)Alf Stewart Wrote: The very fact they exist and are available to everyone makes them mainstream, despite what they may say. Heck, even the boss says they're mainstream.
''..we're an Ofcom-regulated, mainstream channel...''
Angelos Frangopoulos: “It’s time to end the boycott” (campaignlive.co.uk)
Evidently, GB News is a mainstream channel when it suits them to be seen as such.
But when they choose, they're suddenly absolutely not a mainstream channel; they're the plucky outsiders and anti-MSM heroes championing the voices of the "silent majority" and the "cancelled" -- important, essential voices that must be repeatedly invited on to the channel, and whose wise and insightful opinions must be promoted without question, such as Jim Davidson and Ann Widdecombe.
It's a bit like the way GB News is definitely not a news channel when it comes to any issue of regulation or broadcasting propriety, but it literally promotes itself as "Britain's news channel" and it constantly compares its own ratings to those of news channels that definitely aren't their rivals because GB News obviously definitely isn't a news channel. *WINK WINK*
Is GB News mainstream? Is it a news channel? Clearly, it depends on who's asking -- and as we've seen, when GB News responds, the answer will be whatever works in their favour.