Sunday 18 April 2021

GB News Coming Soon

British Television News is ruled over by Ofcom, the Office of Communications, which ensure that the television news channels keep to a Broadcasting code of accuracy, impartiality and fairness so the arrival of the right wing GB News channel this year shouldn't be too much of concern, they are bound by the rules the same as everyone else.
The channel, led by former BBC host Andrew Neil, has set itself up as a mixture of news, opinion, and debate and is being described as a British version of right-wing network Fox News which consistently puts out misinformation but America has no regulator, we do and Ofcom booted Fox News off all the UK services for not being accurate, impartial or fair so GB News will be very short lived if it follows that blueprint.
GB News Chairman Andrew Neil was always politically to the right, he has some very right wing views on AIDS and Climate Change and was a vocal supporter of both the Afghan and Iraq Wars but he is a first and foremost a journalist of some regard who has been at the game for longer than most which is why the names recruited so far are from both sides of the ideological curtian such as Michael Portillo, Diane Abbott, Kirsty Gallacher, Alastair Stewart, Nick Ferrari, Julia Hartley-Brewer, Rachel Johnson and Piers Morgan.
The Official BBC NEWS response is that it welcomes the competition and GB News refute any comparison with Fox News, stating that it will conform to Ofcom rules on due impartiality but i am certain that Ofcom will be watching very closely that it does.

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