GBN has it improved your knowledge of alternative news ??

[Proton]

GBN has been up and running relatively smoothly for a while, but has it got you watching with interest a couple hours a night . Should all the other 24/7 news outlets be worried at all

[chrishornx]

never really bothered with it

what is your opinion?

[spiralnotebook]

It’s the only UK news channel I bother with, along with Al Jizmra for world news.

[Gordon Bennett]

I saw Simon Evans years ago doing this stand-up routine on telly. It made me chuckle so I've loosely followed his appearances thereafter.


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Anyway, I discovered he was doing newspaper review each night on GBN so I tuned in for a few. Quite good but not really the time I want to be watching news so it's hit or miss if I tune in now.

[RedKettle]

GBN has been up and running relatively smoothly for a while, but has it got you watching with interest a couple hours a night . Should all the other 24/7 news outlets be worried at all

No and no

[lamboman]

Never watched it.

[King Nuts]

I dip in and out, but find some of the presenters and reporters a little challenging to listen to for more than a few minutes. Ellie Costello is one such.

She slips into reporterspeak far too easily. I am assuming she doesn't talk like that in real life. If she did, and if I were on a date with her or sitting next to her at a 'do' or something, I'd make my excuses and leave.

[PepeMAGA]

Some of the people on there I listen to on other media like Calvin Robinson and Leo Kearse.
Watch bits on YouTube, but don't generally watch news on live tv.
It's good to have a right leaning news channel in the uk

[Dave33ws6]

Only seen bits and bobs of it and even Nigel Farage has a show on there so my answer is no

[Proton]

Only seen bits and bobs of it and even Nigel Farage has a show on there so my answer is no

It's a strange mix of odd bits of usually sensationalist UK news, somewhat like a poor Fox-News relation. Thanks for your replies, they were as I was expecting to hear. I've dipped in & out over the months, mainly because I enjoy all the different ways news is present from across the world mostly via the internet.
                                             I saw this caption on Twitter a few days ago, that made me wonder what a wider cross section of people thought about GBN   

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[scutty brown]

Any "news" channel which gives space to one of Putin's "useful idiots" i.e. Farage, isn't a news channel - instead it's become a Russian propaganda outlet

If anyone wants an alternative take on both domestic and overseas news it's best to use an aggregation service like NewsNow and read multiple views
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[King Nuts]

Any "news" channel which gives space to one of Putin's "useful idiots" i.e. Farage, isn't a news channel - instead it's become a Russian propaganda outlet

If anyone wants an alternative take on both domestic and overseas news it's best to use an aggregation service like NewsNow and read multiple views
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Interesting website. I also read The Week, which for those who don't know it, is a weekly magazine with bits of news taken from all over the place.

But I've come to realise there's no point in expecting objectivity any more. Even The Week has a clear bias - mostly metropolitan soft-left - that it takes to presumably capture and retain its middle class audience.

As regards Farage, I think he's entertaining at times. I'd refute the 'useful idiot' jibe. He's classic old school, suburban gin'n'jag set. He's where the Tories would be if it were still the early 70s.

[Proton]

Any "news" channel which gives space to one of Putin's "useful idiots" i.e. Farage, isn't a news channel - instead it's become a Russian propaganda outlet
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Yes it is a good place to go for worldwide information and much more. A long time ago via shortwave radio, one of my favourite presenters are Amy Goodman DEMOCRACY NOW now internet thankfully
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[Adoniron]

Its gone from SS-GB News to KGB News in the space of a few weeks. It's not credible, there is little news but lots of opinion and everyone on it seems to share the same opinions.

[Colston36]

It’s the only UK news channel I bother with, along with Al Jizmra for world news.

Do you mean al jazeera? There is no Jizmra.

Interesting pair of sources of information - right wing and anti Israeli propaganda.

[Proton]

 I was reading the "Ukrainian Twitter" feed and there were a few photos of Nigel

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[King Nuts]

Its gone from SS-GB News to KGB News in the space of a few weeks. It's not credible, there is little news but lots of opinion and everyone on it seems to share the same opinions.

Lol. Amazing, isn't it. The democratisation of news dissemination, through cable, satellite, online etc., was supposed to make us better informed and to make it easier to spot what could be called fake news.

Instead, it seems to have had the opposite effect. 'I believe in THIS version of the story, and everyone else is an idiot/fascist/twat etc because they believe something else because they watch CNN/RT/BBC/GB News' or whatever.

The Russia/Ukraine malarkey is a good example. We're being led very strongly to believe that it's basically Mordor vs The Shire, and yet anyone who pipes up to suggest that maybe it's a little more complicated than that, is shouted down.

[PepeMAGA]

I was reading the "Ukrainian Twitter" feed and there were a few photos of Nigel

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Proof the left can't meme

[Proton]

  On my mobile I have these two American radio app's which I found on the Google Play (still there).. Each are a combination a many radio stations across USA, which over the years I've found interesting especially during the Trump years.
  It was obvious Trump was going to win and the 6th January 2021 Capitol attack, it was clearly spoken about for months on a daily basis Yet the  media told us both were a surprise

  Talk Left - Progressive Talk Radio    Talk Right - Conservative Talk Radio
 

[sparkus]

I don't understand why anyone is watching the TV for "news".  If I want to know what's going on the in the world then there's BBC online, plus a constant volley of stuff on social media.

The only TV news I watch is BBC London as it features stuff happening locally which doesn't get covered as much online.  That and Alice B's big knockers.

I sometimes put Channel 4 news on for the more in-depth analysis and I like looking at Cathy Newman.

GB News seems more a constant cycle of chat?