GB News

[Nearly Sane]

I have little to no intention of watching it but don't see why it's that objectionable that companies shouldn't advertise.on it - lack of viewers would be a different reason.

Also there is something all a bit Big Endians vs Little Endians with people arguing against people boycotting companies for advertising on the channel by saying they will boycott the companies for not advertising on it.



https://news.yahoo.com/gb-news-why-advertisers-boycotting-101510786.html

[Aruntraveller]

Seen elsewhere:

"Until now right wingers have only had the Sun, the Mail, the telegraph, Express, Unherd, LBC, Talkradio, two dozen dodgy think tanks and an increasingly authoritarian conservative government to speak for them.

Thankfully, GB News will now end their marginalisation."

[Gordon]

I'd have thought that the key issues for advertisers in this case would be that the demographics of the GB News audience would be a good fit for their product or service: thus it seems unlikely to me that the latest 'hip hop' (if that description is still relevant) artiste would be promoted on GB News whereas companies flogging new conservatories (pun intended) might see GB News as being the ideal platform.

That GB News have recruited Neil Oliver is, for me, a perfectly good reason to avoid it.

[ProfessorDavey]

I have little to no intention of watching it but don't see why it's that objectionable that companies shouldn't advertise.on it - lack of viewers would be a different reason.

Also there is something all a bit Big Endians vs Little Endians with people arguing against people boycotting companies for advertising on the channel by saying they will boycott the companies for not advertising on it.



https://news.yahoo.com/gb-news-why-advertisers-boycotting-101510786.html

Realistically there is no obligation on any company to advertise on any platform - it is their choice based on a range of factors, including the number of people the advert will be seen by but also factoring in bad publicity if they are seen to support a platform by advertising on it and the ethos of the company.

And likewise there is no obligation on customers buying the products of a particular company - the reasons for not doing so can be numerous, but may include not wanting to support a company that does things they don't like (including advertising on GB News).

So frankly in the world of freedom of choice it seems fine to me for companies to choose not to advertise on GB News, and also fine for customers to choose not to buy products from a company either because they have chosen to advertise on GB News, or because they have pulled their adverts from GB News.

What I find more hypocritical is the people who have railed against the BBC for being 'biased' (noting that the BBC is required to be impartial, whether or not it achieves it in practice) and then be huge fans of GB News which seems not to even pretend to be impartial. Now there aren't any of those people on this forum I think but they are all over another political forum I regularly visit. It seems deeply hypocritical to me.

[Nearly Sane]

Seen elsewhere:

"Until now right wingers have only had the Sun, the Mail, the telegraph, Express, Unherd, LBC, Talkradio, two dozen dodgy think tanks and an increasingly authoritarian conservative government to speak for them.

Thankfully, GB News will now end their marginalisation."

The Express puffing up GB News


https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1450838/bbc-news-boycott-gb-news-andrew-neil-tv-channel-uk-public-broadcaster-ofcom

[ProfessorDavey]

The Express puffing up GB News


https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1450838/bbc-news-boycott-gb-news-andrew-neil-tv-channel-uk-public-broadcaster-ofcom

An absolutely laughable article - that claims people are rejecting the BBC because it delivers news 'with facts, figures, context and perspective totally lacking' yet bases its article on a tiny number of quotes from individuals!

I'm also loving the attempts to big-up the viewing figures, claiming elsewhere that GB News trounced the BBC and Sky. Yet this is based entirely on the opening night Andrew Neil piece, with I suspect a significant number of those viewers being journalists who would then write a piece on the new channel, or just interested observers unlikely to be regular viewers. And even then the figures are claimed at 300,000 or 160,000. And the most recent, once the channel has settled into normal broadcasting mode is just 70,000. Now, for context, most people don't get their BBC news via the news channel, but throughout the news on BBC1/2 and/or the website. The BBC evening news regularly gets about 3-4 million viewers.

But the 'true believers' of course wont accept that their views and GB News is anything other than a niche for, well, true believers.

[Aruntraveller]

Depressing. I made the mistake of doing something I've done before and said I wouldn't do again. I read the comments by the public. Got to take another shower now to get myself clean.

[Nearly Sane]

Hmm...


https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/sep/17/i-was-a-minority-of-one-andrew-neil-reveals-why-he-quit-gb-news

[jeremyp]

Hmm...


https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/sep/17/i-was-a-minority-of-one-andrew-neil-reveals-why-he-quit-gb-news

When it first launched with Andrew Neil at the top, I thought it was going to be an attempt at a serious news channel. It's obvious now that it aspires to be the British Breitbart.