Re: Sky News ...
Originally Posted by
JBR
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GB News trying to control our MSM?
How can they control BBC and Sky?
They can compete, and whether they succeed depends upon their audience.
I suspect that many viewers of BBC News and Sky News will watch it, compare it to what they have been watching, and probably choose to watch GB News in preference.
Talk Radio was banned by Youtube the other day because of the criticism from Julia Hartley-Brewer over the handling of COVID and the lockdowns etc. Its a prime example of cancel culture of big tech to shut down any discussions over an alternative view than that of their own. Now Twitter bans Trump - the elected leader of the free world, now "cancelled" because Twitter doesn't like what he said. The thing is, is that I don't agree with what Trump said either but that is no reason to censor free speech from the platforms that big tech provide for it. In fact, Trumps insurgence can't be cured by banning him from Twitter as they seem to think, but the alternative views must still be heard as a fundamental right to have freedom of speech. If you don't like it, don't read it or don't watch it, or even better, create and argument for your views and have that debate. It's the privilege of being a sovereign person, living in a democracy with freedoms of the press, assembly and speech etc.
The BBC, Sky News, Channel 4, Channel 5 are all poitically biassed, its silly to ignore this fact, but so will GBTV. The difference with GBTV is not because of its views, it's because it provides a different view from the rest of the channels. It provides balance and an opportunity to hear the other side of the debate, not left wing echo chambers dog whistling to minority groups that most people don't care about.
In the USA last year, the most popular news channel was Fox - not CNN or CNBS or any of the lefty channels, it was a right wing one. But there again, Fox is just about the only right wing channel there is over there, so its not surprising. My point though, is that we need balance not one sided monologues from the MSM who won't allow us to hear any other viewpoint and keep telling us what is right and what is wrong. What the MSM need to realise is that while they were so fixated on Trump being bad, they were blinded by the fact that we are being dominated by China.
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