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The panel aren't social distancing 😱 how controversial 😆

This text is awful, their graphics in general aren't good
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I didn’t hear a peep about this launching, I knew it was due. Just put Dan Wootton on, he was talking to that Judi woman off Big Brother 🥱 will persevere for a bit whilst I do my skincare routine 🤣
 
I popped into it for about 10 minutes when Wootton was talking to Alan Sugar.

It looks seriously cheap. Like shows from the 80's. I can't stand Wootton so didn't last long. Who thought he was a good idea for launch night ?
 
www.theguardian.com

GB News review – Andrew Neil’s alternative BBC? Utterly deadly stuff

The ‘anti-woke’ news channel had Andrew Neil and Alan Sugar, but no Piers Morgan – and the opening night felt like the furthest thing from appointment TV imaginable. I give it a year
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There will be plenty of media outlets bashing the channel with biased pieces. The journalist has a go at what Dan Wootton said but doesn't explain why he doesn't agree.
 
The problem is with GB news is how can it branch out to cover international news if it's been designed for a British audience? GB News as a name never made much sense to me.
 
Well at least they haven't gone silly on the budget so their cash should last for quite a while, decades even. 😂

They must have really rushed to get it live for tomorrow, but I'm still confused how they messed up things like having the books in the background of Kirsty Gallagher in focus, rather than Kirsty Gallagher being in focus 😐
 
I wanted to be open-minded about GB News but I wasn't impressed at all. Switched on at 8:30 when Andrew Neil was introducing people and their segments and they were making it all sound very good. An interest in trying to get local perspectives, also not being doom and gloom all the time, hosts discussing about the importance of agree to disagree etc. And then they blew it all in the opening of the first proper programme when Dan Wootton went on a tirade about the fact that June 21 isn't likely to happen anymore.

Now I'm not sitting here going I love lockdown, it's more if we duck up borders, track and trace and literally everything that would avoid a lockdown then a lockdown/restrictions is what we're going to have to have. But it seemed to be an emotion-fuelled rant that would play well to the lockdown conspiracy crowd rather than any reasoned and informed person.

There are massive costs to lockdown, but look at what India went through if you want to have an idea of what letting everything rip looks like.

But why have a considered opinion when you can just play to a certain demographic you know will lap this up.

There was a massive opportunity to have a channel where nuanced, non-partisan, intelligent and civil discussion could occur. Such a thing could have been very beneficial for the country. And there's a reason why things like podcasts do very well - it's nice to listen to hour long conversations between people with different ideas without it descending into screaming matches and toys being thrown out of the pram.

But GB News tonight was basically 'we promise we're not like Fox News, we promise we're not Fox News, we promise we're not Fox News....and now we'd like to welcome you to Fox News'.
 
Icing _on_ the_cake said:
But GB News tonight was basically 'we promise we're not like Fox News, we promise we're not Fox News, we promise we're not Fox News....and now we'd like to welcome you to Fox News'.
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That’s what I feared this may become. People say they are glad that it’s anti work or sticking two fingers up to the BBC, etc but then it doesn’t become unbiased, it just becomes the opposite of the BBC. Would be better if there was some middle ground.
I do love Simon McCoy, miss him from BBC in the afternoon and I do like Alistair Stewart. The set looks a bit of a come down for them.
 
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