GB News / Talk TV

[Blackshep]

I might have to have a look at this GB news seems to fuel a lot of discussion.

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by Blackshep

I might have to have a look at this GB news seems to fuel a lot of discussion.

Monday through Thursday - 19:00 to 20:00.

[Blackshep]

Thank you I'll have a watch when I get time.

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Oh please, Andrew.

Farage brought off a major coup for GB News. A gripping 2 hours. BBC et al cannot compete with his style of objective journalism.

So what Farage didn't challenge Trump's claims of a rigged election? Farage is the interviewer not the Democrat candidate.

How do you justify "... in most people's eyes"?

A good political interviewer would challenge any politicians claims, even if just to point out they are disputed. That's his job. Before you say it isn't, he was interviewing a politician on a channel that proudly tells everyone it is a news channel.

Political interviewers have to be tougher on their interviewees than celebrity interviewers because the things a politician says *may* have an impact on a lot of people, and whether Trump was lying or not, most politicians will lie given a fraction of a chance to do so.

A good interviewer needs to try and find the truth in an interviewee's answers. That does include challenging what the interviewee says. The trouble with Trump is that (and he has this in common with a lot of right wingers) as soon as you disagree with him, you are wrong and fake news.

So, while I didn't see the interview, I'd argue that while it may or may not have been a gripping 2 hours, it does not sound like what I would consider a good interview.

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Originally Posted by Mick

If you were to believe every word of him. I think his ego was his downfall, he’s trying to make out GBNews can’t succeed without him. He’s been very disrespectful to the hires of Mark Dolan (Remainer btw) Patrick Christy and you’ve already got Dan Wootan, he proclaimed, referring them as “shock jocks”. All from talkRadio.

He lost me when he started complaining that he was offered £4 Million contract, after just 5 shows he’d decided he’d had enough, “his drivers”, he was “on a plane by 10pm sipping champagne”.

My heart friggin bleeds, not. Just awful, awful man of self importance.

The big stars (of which Neil appears to consider himself one) attract big salaries because they are expected to attract a lot of viewers. I remember the Producer of Superman: The Movie defending Marlon Brando being paid millions for essentially 2 weeks work because they thought he would bring in a lot of viewers (and he did).

The problem is, Brando had already worked on several blockbusters, and it could be argued he did bring in a lot of ticket sales. Neil has a couple of mildly successful TV and Radio shows, and a career as an editor (with seemingly a lifetime pass to be pictured in Private Eye) and a few appearances on other TV shows. This probably gave him a massive ego. Entirely unjustified, IMO.

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by Stuart

A good political interviewer would challenge any politicians claims, even if just to point out they are disputed. That's his job. Before you say it isn't, he was interviewing a politician on a channel that proudly tells everyone it is a news channel.

Political interviewers have to be tougher on their interviewees than celebrity interviewers because the things a politician says *may* have an impact on a lot of people, and whether Trump was lying or not, most politicians will lie given a fraction of a chance to do so.

A good interviewer needs to try and find the truth in an interviewee's answers. That does include challenging what the interviewee says. The trouble with Trump is that (and he has this in common with a lot of right wingers) as soon as you disagree with him, you are wrong and fake news.

So, while I didn't see the interview, I'd argue that while it may or may not have been a gripping 2 hours, it does not sound like what I would consider a good interview.

It would have properly informed your opinion if you had been able to view the interview.

I think Farage is an excellent journalist. I don't watch much GB News, but I do watch him.

[pip08456]

Originally Posted by Stuart

A good political interviewer would challenge any politicians claims, even if just to point out they are disputed. That's his job. Before you say it isn't, he was interviewing a politician on a channel that proudly tells everyone it is a news channel.

Political interviewers have to be tougher on their interviewees than celebrity interviewers because the things a politician says *may* have an impact on a lot of people, and whether Trump was lying or not, most politicians will lie given a fraction of a chance to do so.

A good interviewer needs to try and find the truth in an interviewee's answers. That does include challenging what the interviewee says. The trouble with Trump is that (and he has this in common with a lot of right wingers) as soon as you disagree with him, you are wrong and fake news.

So, while I didn't see the interview, I'd argue that while it may or may not have been a gripping 2 hours, it does not sound like what I would consider a good interview.

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Farage is not a political interviewer, nor was it billed as such.

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Monday through Thursday - 19:00 to 20:00.

But that would clash with the excellent C4 news?

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by Mr K

But that would clash with the excellent C4 news?

But that would clash with the leftie Remainer C4 news.

Plus there's always C4+1.

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

But that would clash with the leftie Remainer C4 news.

Plus there's always C4+1.

So your choice is the ' unbalanced' Farage. Entertaining possibly, objective inquiring journalist, no....
Surprised he's not doing panto this year. He'd make a great dame

[Mad Max]

Better than "Captain Hindsight" and his historical views of a so-called Xmas party.

Originally Posted by Mad Max

Better than "Captain Hindsight" and his historical views of a so-called Xmas party.

Which followed all the COVID rules

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Which followed all the COVID rules

The same rules matt Hancock followed.

Originally Posted by papa smurf

The same rules matt Hancock followed.

Exactly…

[1andrew1]

He's got a point!

Sam McBride GB News will tomorrow broadcast a cosy interview with Boris Johnson. The interviewers? None other than two Conservative MPs - Philip Davies & Esther McVey. A PM being interviewed on a supposed news channel by MPs from the governing party is not journalism; it's propaganda.

https://twitter.com/SJAMcBride/statu...36054367817732

Mr Prime Minister, your Premiership has been a huge success! Why are you so popular?