O/T:- Media Bias

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Originally Posted by Magpies1959

The fact their were 45 complaints about impartiality seems unfathomable high for a channel that apparently is only watched and listened to by love an echo chamber.

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You just comfort yourself with the idea that all the 45 who complained were limp-wristed liberal woke lefties. Or maybe not:

"Fox's comments on GB News have been condemned by media figures and politicians. Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho said the comments were "completely vile".

Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan has urged media regulator Ofcom to look into the incident, telling Sky News that Fox's comments and the response from Wootton were "unacceptable".

GB news presenter and Reform UK party leader Richard Tice told BBC News that Fox's comments were "wholly inappropriate" and he should apologise to Evans".

So are you on the side of Fox or the Reform UK party leader?

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Originally Posted by Elite_Pie

You just comfort yourself with the idea that all the 45 who complained were limp-wristed liberal woke lefties. Or maybe not:

"Fox's comments on GB News have been condemned by media figures and politicians. Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho said the comments were "completely vile".

Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan has urged media regulator Ofcom to look into the incident, telling Sky News that Fox's comments and the response from Wootton were "unacceptable".

GB news presenter and Reform UK party leader Richard Tice told BBC News that Fox's comments were "wholly inappropriate" and he should apologise to Evans".

So are you on the side of Fox or the Reform UK party leader?

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Google Dan Wootton and the Byline Times Elite, you’ll find that incident is the least of his crimes. GBeebies have kept him on air because apparently it’s nothing to do with them. Even the Daily Mail has sent him off for a long lunch break.

Think if he’d worked for the BBC and imagine what some of the right wing lads on here would have had to say about it.

Firmly behind Richard Tice. Lawrence Fox was out of order, but she does seem to be a bit of a wind up merchant. I think you will find that Dan Wootton has been kept off air too by GB News.

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Originally Posted by Magpies1959

Firmly behind Richard Tice. Lawrence Fox was out of order, but she does seem to be a bit of a wind up merchant. I think you will find that Dan Wootton has been kept off air too by GB News.

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They should have kept him off air long before the exchange with Fox. He’s collected £27,000 from people to pay for legal action, but so far nada.

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/07/17/g...shing-scandal/

Edit Link not working but easy to find.

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Originally Posted by Magpies1959

When you are inviting the Chancellor of the Exchequer onto a programme, who would be a Tory because they are the ruling government, it is difficult to get someone from the other side of the political divide to do that interview. There was no rule breaking, as regards the people involved with the programme, just the apparent lack of balance in the questions, according to 45 people who complained, and Ofcom have jumped on this with relish.

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The show didn't break the rules regarding politicians presenting news shows as this particular one was classed as 'current affairs'. However the Jeremy Hunt interview was governed by the 'heightened' impartiality requirements due to it taking place immediately before the Spring Statement.

There are also another 6 current Ofcom investigations underway into GB news shows, which doesn't really give much of an air of impartiality.

Ofcom must have fallen asleep when Question Time was on during the lead up to Brexit, the panel was always loaded in favour of Remainers, as was the audience, very convenient.

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Originally Posted by Magpies1959

Ofcom must have fallen asleep when Question Time was on during the lead up to Brexit, the panel was always loaded in favour of Remainers, as was the audience, very convenient.

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"Welcome everyone to Question Time, which this week is from somewhere in the Metropolitan Elite. Our panel is Gina Miller, Guy Verhofstadt, Gary Linekar, and finally, the ghost of Sir Edward Heath. Right, next question from the audience. From... let's see... from a Mister J O'Brien. What's your question, sir?"
"Thank you Fiona. Does the panel believe, as I do, that Brexit would be an act of almost unimaginable national self-harm?"
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That's not how I remember things at all.

Though... I do remember there being a Brexit Special Leave-only edition of Question Time back in June this year, at least as far as the studio audience was concerned.

For what it's worth, I think this was justified and an interesting exercise... just a pity they didn't do the same with Remainers with a kind of 'what next' theme as that would have been interesting too.

Newish Pie the figures are out there for the panelists involved in Question Time in the lead up to Brexit, and they are overwhelmingly in favour of Remainers. Anyway it is old news, and the shame is that the defeated side, didn't get behind the result of the democratic decision, to make for a much smoother transition to life outside the EU.

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Originally Posted by Newish Pie

"Welcome everyone to Question Time, which this week is from somewhere in the Metropolitan Elite. Our panel is Gina Miller, Guy Verhofstadt, Gary Linekar, and finally, the ghost of Sir Edward Heath. Right, next question from the audience. From... let's see... from a Mister J O'Brien. What's your question, sir?"
"Thank you Fiona. Does the panel believe, as I do, that Brexit would be an act of almost unimaginable national self-harm?"
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That's not how I remember things at all.

Though... I do remember there being a Brexit Special Leave-only edition of Question Time back in June this year, at least as far as the studio audience was concerned.

For what it's worth, I think this was justified and an interesting exercise... just a pity they didn't do the same with Remainers with a kind of 'what next' theme as that would have been interesting too.

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Yes. I’m not sure what universe 1959 lives in sometimes, not sure it’s the real one though.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/nigel-fara...155615416.html

Not bad for a man who’s never won a UK election, despite having 7 goes at it. He was a MEP you say?

https://www.thenational.scot/news/17...-time-graphic/

The BBC consistently put leave MEPs on Question Time far more than remain ones.

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Originally Posted by Magpies1959

Newish Pie the figures are out there for the panelists involved in Question Time in the lead up to Brexit, and they are overwhelmingly in favour of Remainers.

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QT is set up to feature politicians. We had a Remainer parliament. So the politicians were mostly Remainers.

Non-politicians on the panel split almost exactly half and half.