Wikipedia co-founder tells Neil Oliver: The Establishment Left radicals have taken over the website
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2022 3:04 am
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"based on what they thought it would represent"? They had not even seen it yet, and were screaming for a boycott?The channel launched to a mixed reception.[94][95] Judith Woods, writing for The Telegraph two days after the channel's launch, described it as "unutterably awful; boring, repetitive and cheapskate", rating it one out of five stars. Chris Bennion of The Telegraph rated it four out of five stars, writing, "On launch night, the GB News message came through loud and clear – despite glitches."[94][96] Jemima Kelly wrote for the Financial Times, "GB News is so tedious, so lacking in nuance, so whiny and frankly so low-quality, it is actually making me more sympathetic to the cause of those they deem 'woke'."[97]
In February 2021, four months before the station began broadcasting, the pressure group Stop Funding Hate called for advertisers to boycott the station, based on what they thought it would represent.[98]
In June 2021, following the station's launch, several brands including Vodafone, IKEA, Kopparbergs Brewery, Grolsch, Nivea, Pinterest, Specsavers and Octopus Energy paused their advertising on the channel, expressing concerns over its content. Some of these advertisements had been placed on the brands' behalf without their knowledge, by Sky Media through their advertising opt-outs during GB News's schedule.[99][100][101] The Culture Secretary, Oliver Dowden, criticised Stop Funding Hate and what he described as "a vocal Twitter minority" for calling for the advertising boycott.[102][103]
It was based on who was involved with promoting GB News from the outset, and that guy was Andrew Neil, ex-editor of The Week and The Daily Mail, had a politics show on BBC-TV for twenty-plus years. Guy is an old school Tory who now lives in France, which seems to be a goal of a certain cohort of British media people; Johnathan Meades (filmmaker, ex-food critic, architecture critic, and cultural commentator) also lives in République française. Just look up Neil. You have to understand that the sort of people who would create a channel like GB News would have put money into another tabloid newspaper/website if video didn't pop the way it does. And the channel has gone down the way Stop Funding Hate thought it would, with Brexiter Nigel Farage showing up after Neil quit last year. Finally, Mark Steyn is involved with the channel -- I remember him doing a piece for R. Emmet Tyrell's American Spectator in the 1990s, before the magazine imploded over costs involved with an idiotic Whitewater investigation. Tyrell brought the sunk publication back and then made it an online-only magazine. And that's all I know about Steyn, besides he is Canadian."based on what they thought it would represent"? They had not even seen it yet, and were screaming for a boycott?