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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Didn’t someone try left-wing/liberal talk radio in the US, only discovering that, not only did it lose money (which was not unexpected) but got a negligible audience, because upwards punching at billionaires and preaching about how urgently broken the world is is a poor substitute for a two-minute-hate against scapegoats and permission to be a worse version of oneself?
There's plenty of scope on YouTube for content creators. The bigger reason that stuff like that fails is that typically people leaning left tend to be younger and more tech savvy. Whereas people leaning right wing tend to be older and stuck in their ways and so they need content on traditional broadcast television, or they don't watch it.
isnt there like one of those on an obscure channel that usually shows at midnight, well its "left-leaning"
I don't know why things are "as useless as a chocolate teapot". It sounds delicious.
Because if you try to use a teapot made of chocolate to make tea, the deliciousness and the tea will be distributed over a wider area than ideal for the tea making process.
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