Only 4 years since its launch, GBNews has been a success. If not in terms of viewers - although their online reach is nothing to sneer at - in terms of setting the agenda on the right, creating radicalisation incentives for conservative elites, and staffing Reform UK.
As opposed to being committed to objective reporting they focus on “setting the agenda” and clicks. Pathetic.
Its the old British political problem of turning your back to it in a hope it will go away. It did not help with the Leave Movement and its not going help here anyway. OFCOM needs to more amongst other people.
Imagine though what good could have been done with all that money A pox on all bored right wing billionaires
And how Ofcom has let it is beyond me.
Sad but true.
From small boats to grooming gangs, GBNews has been the incubator of the return of immigration to the political agenda - sometimes against the wishes of the Conservative Party itself. It’s no Fox News, but it rivals (and maybe has substituted) the tabloids in upstream agenda-setting power.
I remember you warning of this when we were all too busy laughing at its shitty launch. I thought, ' not like him to be wrong': You weren't.
Well it was always likely to happen, gien how closely the people launching it were with Sky News Australia.
UK regulators have proven, as it was the case with the tabloids, completely toothless, and the British left has not even started trying to engage with the problem of GBNews beyond mocking it. People keep underestimating its significance, and overstating that of “organic” social media radicals.
Social media radicals matters a lot because it’s the information space of the politically engaged. GBN is the outreach of that space to normies.
Ignoring Sky News Australia has worked for the left/Australian Labor Party