14-07-2023, 01:30 PM
(14-07-2023, 01:19 PM)London Lite Wrote: 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.
Am I to take it that because of the aforementioned platforms in the first paragraph that we should be grateful for them and not have a TV channel platform for this country?
(14-07-2023, 01:28 PM)Adsales Wrote: 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 or when something has happened that enrages those on the right while the large part of the population could not care less.
Are you tarring me with the same brush with those you claim have no room for facts? I think you should look at my past posts to back up your claim.