14-07-2023, 01:28 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.
This is the issue with having discussions with people who sit in the GBN core audience. There is no room for facts. Someone claims something and that makes it true. That view is then fully entrenched and can't be changed.
Like what I've bolded in the quoted post; that claim is simply not true. The GBN audience has not actually grown. There are days or day parts where it occasionally beats Sky News or (the) BBC News (Channel) but that is not because suddenly more people are watching GBN or people have switched. It usually happens on slow news days, on days where nothing other than Westminster dramas is happening (and people are bored, oh so bored of it) or when something has happened that enrages those on the right while the large part of the population could not care less.