20-02-2024, 04:04 PM
Worth remembering that GBNews did not choose the audience and they did not vet the questions. They hired Survation, a respected polling company, to do both. Survation were tasked to find undecided voters, not GBNews fans.
The choice of host, Stephen Dixon, seems like a pretty obvious choice to try and make the programme fair as well. He's a 20 year alumni of Sky News who isn't known for ever making any particularly strong political comments or sharing a political affiliation.
This is going above and beyond programmes of a similar format of which Ofcom have never taken interest in, such as over a decade of LBC's flagship leader call-ins.
This wasn't two Tory MPs "interviewing" a senior Tory Cabinet Minister, of which GBNews were very rightly reprimanded for. This was a political programme that would have been completely unremarkable if it was on any other broadcaster.
The choice of host, Stephen Dixon, seems like a pretty obvious choice to try and make the programme fair as well. He's a 20 year alumni of Sky News who isn't known for ever making any particularly strong political comments or sharing a political affiliation.
This is going above and beyond programmes of a similar format of which Ofcom have never taken interest in, such as over a decade of LBC's flagship leader call-ins.
This wasn't two Tory MPs "interviewing" a senior Tory Cabinet Minister, of which GBNews were very rightly reprimanded for. This was a political programme that would have been completely unremarkable if it was on any other broadcaster.