14-07-2023, 01:19 PM
(14-07-2023, 01:07 PM)KrazyKei Wrote: It's fascinating the amount of people on here slating GB News for it's content and political outlook. Whilst I can be the first to criticise GB News, I see the bigger picture in that people of the centre-right view are ignored or pretty much shouted down by the established media before GB News was set up.
Have any of you thought or looked at yourselves and asked whether it is you that treat people of the alternative opinion as irrelevant or shouted down? Also ask yourselves as well if you think your views are superior to that of those who disagree with you. Then you might understand why more and more people watch GB News rather than the established media.
The centre right and right-wing already have outlets for their musings. If someone wants to write about gender critical issues for example, you can find them in the Mail and Telegraph. There's a radio station that between 5am-midnight that covers culture wars which happens for now to have a tv simulcast. LBC to an extent also covers culture wars in a broader manner. Twitter under Elon Musk is also another platform where they can post those kind of opinions without the fear of being "cancelled."
The fact is that GBN and Talk TV are niche products, they don't have the pull for advertisers that make them marketable. The only way GBN will continue is if their rich idealogical backers continue to see a turn in attitudes from the general public towards a more right-wing way of how society should be which simply isn't happening.