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GB news Would this be a controversy
This is perfectly true, the names have been changed, as if, to BD. Many decades ago I lived in a different town. A new neighbour moved in and I introduced myself and he introduced himself.
I said I'm sorry but how do I pronounce that, so he repeated his name. I look mystified as I couldn't get pronunciation right. He said don't worry most people can't. So what do I call you I asked.
Sambo, that's what they call me at work.
So am I racial prejudice, woke snowflake or what.
It was different world then and nobody that I knew was offended by nicknames. You could even call Guy Gibson's dog a certain unpopular name in todays world, that nobody took offence to. I digress.
So theirs a start for GB news.
I am not sure you realise what GB news is. It is fronted by one of the UK's foremost broadcasters, Andrew Neil, with a strong supporting cast and it is designed to provide a more balanced view of the news than presently being offered by the BBC or Sky. It is not anything to do with the caricatures you paint. It is there to bring more of a balance to the metropolitan liberal view of the world, or wokeness in common slang.
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I am not sure you realise what GB news is.
It is fronted by one of the UK's foremost broadcasters, Andrew Neil, with a strong supporting cast and it is designed to provide a more balanced view of the news than presently being offered by the BBC or Sky.
It is not anything to do with the caricatures you paint. It is there to bring more of a balance to the metropolitan liberal view of the world, or wokeness in common slang.
Lew I haven't the foggiest what GB news is. Last time I watched Sky News I was on holiday years ago, and as far as the BBC is concerned it's biased. As for woke and snowflake, well there's some white stuff outside the window. I've tried hard to find an unbiased newspaper that reports news, not opinions, not political story's just news so I can make my own mind up. I'm fed up of headlines involving could, would, should, might, may and if's. One of the best newspapers was the old GT, in several editions, years ago. Todays GT (or Grimsby Live to be modern) is worse than the old Grimsby Gazette for news. It's merely a paper for the Reach group to sell advertising through. The problem with being old is that you've experienced the best and you now have to put up modern day dressed up crap . Just fell off my soapbox.
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I have no idea and no desire to find out. Don't know what a snowflake is either.
Buzzwords.
That's the problem with you social justice warriors.
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"Designed to provide a more balanced view of the world" Yeah right.
All views have a slant one way or another, depending on your viewpoint.
It's become fashionable to label the BBC as biased, because Tories and their supporters tell us so.
I can't stand Andrew Neil personally, so I won't get to find out how 'balanced' it is.
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That's the problem with you social justice warriors.
I have the same problem with these words (woke & snowflake) so does that make somebody who is neither red or blue a social justice warrior.
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Andrew Neil, Editor of the Sunday Times for a decade, frequent contributor to the Daily Mail, also worked for the Barclay Brothers. About as right-wing a journalist as you're likely to find. The fact that he was one of the prominent political journalists at the BBC for decades would tend to indicate that they aren't particularly dominated by left-wing views. As would the case that various former editors/assistant editors of The Times, Telegraph and so forth have also held major news roles at the corporation over the past decade or more.
Neil is an honest Tory, however. He'll come at things from a right-wing viewpoint which is understandable given his own beliefs but has always been happy to give Tory politicians a hard time as well as the left.
Not quite sure what to make of this GB News stuff. The idea that BBC news with the likes of Kuenssberg and Robinson as some the most prominent political commentators on the airwaves is somehow biased towards the left is pretty laughable. The reportage of Sky News has always appeared more balanced to me, despite the links to the Dirty Digger. A US company backed by Hedgies setting up a new UK news channel seems an odd choice to me at the current time. I'd imagine they have calculated there may be some money in it, somehow. Fox has certainly done extremely well financially over in the US.
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"Designed to provide a more balanced view of the world" Yeah right.
All views have a slant one way or another, depending on your viewpoint.
It's become fashionable to label the BBC as biased, because Tories and their supporters tell us so.
Don’t forget the BBC love to remind us that the left also like to label them bias to confirm how balanced they really are🤔 This is just to mask their real Cultural Marxist agenda In which they routinely abuse its power to promote this progressive multicultural politically correct globalist view. Which is a scary thought when you consider their global reach they’ve recently reported has increased by 11% to 468.2m people a week!
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Don’t forget the BBC love to remind us that the left also like to label them bias to confirm how balanced they really are🤔 This is just to mask their real Cultural Marxist agenda In which they routinely abuse its power to promote this progressive multicultural politically correct globalist view.
Which is a scary thought when you consider their global reach they’ve recently reported has increased by 11% to 468.2m people a week!
Perhaps some of those 468.2m people should help to pay towards our tv licence. Seems they're watching/listening for free.
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Don’t forget the BBC love to remind us that the left also like to label them bias to confirm how balanced they really are🤔 This is just to mask their real Cultural Marxist agenda In which they routinely abuse its power to promote this progressive multicultural politically correct globalist view.
Which is a scary thought when you consider their global reach they’ve recently reported has increased by 11% to 468.2m people a week!
You don't half spout some bollox.
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This is just to mask their real Cultural Marxist agenda In which they routinely abuse its power to promote this progressive multicultural politically correct globalist view.
Are you a parody?
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