14-07-2023, 02:08 PM
(14-07-2023, 01:52 PM)Robbie1123 Wrote: It is really interesting reading the comments on here about left this or right that. I remember the firm definitive 'GBN won't last', 'Andrew Neil has left, it won't last more than 6 months', then 'It'll be lucky to see its first anniversary"
It's still there, will it last? Who really knows.
Yes it is sloppy looking. It does have more poor than great production, but what I see is something that is finding its feet, more serious TV people being hired behind the scenes and if logic follows then a more polished look and production should start to emerge.
How they cover big events may well lead to people switching to them, maybe just sometimes instead of the BBC or Sky, and slowly an audience could grow. A general election could really do them some good, viewer wise, if they play a good game.
Then GBN will sit in the mainstream, a mainstream that will have changed slightly from when it began because it will be part of that future mainstream.
Alternatively, it'll be gone in 6 months.
If GBN wants to become "mainstream" then it not only would have to abandon its target audience entirely (which isn't going to happen with its current financial backers), it would also have to convince all those who would never give the channel even a brief look that it has changed from what it was; and it would have to compete with those channels already catering for the majority of the population.
What would be the point in that?
It's also unlikely to be gone in 6 months or probably even two years, simply because of its backers' ideologies. It'll likely be there for those who wish to hear "alternative views" for a while.
As for "mainstream" changing, it already has. A whole lot back to the centre. Whether the current Labour party wins the next election or the Tories do (which they only can if they shift back to the centre to compete with the newly firmly centred Labour), the population is already far more concentrated in traditional centre politics than it has been in any point since 2016.
(14-07-2023, 02:03 PM)KrazyKei Wrote: The arrogance in your post is astounding in that your attitude is one of many reasons why GB News was started up in the first place.
P.S. I have not claimed anything when the amount of anti-GB News posts on here are proof of my 1st post from today.
Case in point. If you wanted to have a discussion then you would have provided evidence of your claim ("more and more people watch GB News rather than the established media") or admitted that you were wrong. Instead you're calling me arrogant for pointing out that your claim is wrong, directly taken from GBN marketing spin (or Guido) and for declining to have a discussion with you on that basis.