14-07-2023, 01:26 PM
(14-07-2023, 01:10 PM)Adsales Wrote: That's the problem with GBN and has been from the start because what they want(ed) to do makes no business sense.
The UK population is, in the large majority very much in the centre of the political spectrum. There is a higher percentage to be found left of centre than right of centre and far more at the very left end compared to the far right end. The UK is not like the US and not like Australia.
Because of a number of circumstances, we ended up with a government that sits far further to the right than the large majority of the population. People were always going to grow tired of that mismatch eventually. Since last summer numerous things have happened to expedite that process.
GBN wants to appeal to those who sit further to the right than the current government and that cohort of people is not exactly massive. It also has entrenched views which make it difficult to pivot further to the centre, let alone go anywhere left of centre. If you try, you lose your core audience. If you don't you can't grow your audience.
A similar problem exists when it comes to presenters. The pool of presenters which are deemed acceptable by the core audience is small, very small. That of course explains the number of Tory MPs who come from the extreme right of the party gracing our screens if we choose to tune in to GBN, along with those other presenters, present and past, which wouldn't get airtime elsewhere.
It's very easy to define alternative views as 'extreme right'. Yet I don't see anyone explaining why they are 'extreme right'.