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GB News is allowed to promote Reform, so I’m setting up Woke TV (www.prospectmagazine.co.uk)

submitted 2 weeks ago by okwithmydecay@leminal.space to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Tongue in cheek, obvs, but it's easy to forget that GB News hemorrhages cash and can only function because a bunch of foreign billionaires provide it with an unlimited cash stream, a form of financing that only right-wing extremists can call upon, sadly. Does make me wonder, though, why Ofcom doesn't have rules about channels being viable, lest they become puppets of their paymasters...

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 2 weeks ago*

GB news violates Ofcom on a daily basis, but they just don't bother to enforce their own rules.

For example they're not really supposed to be calling themselves a news organization unless they conform to editorial standards. Yet they call themselves a news channel all the time and Ofcom just sit there.

If I were Labour I'd be hauling them in front of a select committee. The bias and ridiculous double standards are blatant.

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[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world 1 point 2 weeks ago

oh shame you're not serious, was just going to mention to watch out you don't get audience captured like the green party and end up being watermelon tv

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