Quote Originally Posted by swaledale View Post
So you make an assumption that the way a news story is covered by the BBC is a deliberate omission and they are therefore hiding the truth? Based on no evidence other than your own particular prejudice? News stories get covered in many different ways by different media, in practically any news report I could find omissions or even things that patently aren't actually true. Conspiracy or cock up? I generally favour the latter, unless its a front page of the Express or Mail which will cheerfully print complete lies and made up guff as headlines and indeed completely contradict themselves within days.

You make a statement that GB News, a TV station that in no way attempts to be objective, factual or truthful, never mind the implicit right wing bias is a useful foil, when the facts are this - it's loss making, £40 million and counting, its viewing figures are miniscule, its owning company has as one of its investors a notorious hedge fund manager with distinctly dubious political views, and has made donations in excess of £600,000 to the Tory party. In addition the TV has employed some of the more right wing and extreme Tory MP's as presenters not to mention the other presenters who range from a former historian turned conspiracy theorist, a former actor turned complete nut case, a fake vicar and a notorious journalist noted mainly for appalling misogynist attacks on celebrities.

How can any person capable of critical thought consider GB News as anything other than the vehicle for rich right wing ****s who want to push a certain agenda to the proles in the hope that some of it will stick?

How is that a foil for anything?

Truly you have confirmed my assessment of you as not being quite as bright as you think you are.
You’re digging the usual big hole for yourself Swale, GBN’s funding and profitability has nothing to do with the fact that it occasionally is on the right side of an issue. In media parlance I’d suggest you are indulging in a ‘smear campaign’, as you do against anyone and anything that disagrees with your entrenched views.

Still, you’re clearly less unhinged than normal as you’ve not gone off on your Nazi analogies. Yet