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Must read thread on GB News! Andrew Neil claims that “British people are crying out for a news service that is more diverse and more representative of their values and concerns”
Whose concerns will it REALLY represent?
We investigate... /1
The best place to start is always an analysis of the economic base.
Does this match with the show’s focus on the concerns of the British people?
As you’ll see below, the two main funders are mega-rich New Zealand and US businessmen… /2
Does this match with the show’s focus on the concerns of the British people?
As you’ll see below, the two main funders are mega-rich New Zealand and US businessmen… /2
“Co-lead investor in GB News, is the New Zealand-born, Dubai-based Christopher Chandler”
“US media group Discovery Inc is the other co-lead investor. Its significant shareholder is John Malone, the libertarian and erstwhile Murdoch cable rival”
/3 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/13/britain-tv-news-right-gb-bbc
“US media group Discovery Inc is the other co-lead investor. Its significant shareholder is John Malone, the libertarian and erstwhile Murdoch cable rival”
/3 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/13/britain-tv-news-right-gb-bbc
Still, at least ONE major investor is British…
“The channel’s third major investor is British businessman and philanthropist Sir Paul Marshall”
According to Byline Times, Marshall is the man who convinced Michael Gove to throw his political weight behind Brexit... /4
“The channel’s third major investor is British businessman and philanthropist Sir Paul Marshall”
According to Byline Times, Marshall is the man who convinced Michael Gove to throw his political weight behind Brexit... /4
Marshall's hedge fund “successfully bet on the ensuing political and economic chaos after its initial big wins on Brexit”
Meanwhile, he made clear that he is as avariciously “British” as the rest of his investors by…“setting up a fund in Dublin..."
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Meanwhile, he made clear that he is as avariciously “British” as the rest of his investors by…“setting up a fund in Dublin..."
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"...to avoid the impact of crashing out of the EU.”!
/6 https://bylinetimes.com/2019/03/18/the-disaster-capitalism-club-part-2-sir-paul-marshall-and-michael-gove/
/6 https://bylinetimes.com/2019/03/18/the-disaster-capitalism-club-part-2-sir-paul-marshall-and-michael-gove/
So far we have hugely wealthy lovers of “free markets” with only a tenuous connection to Britain
Not a great start, is it?
How about the claim that GB News will be “proudly independent” and focus on “debate that embraces all voices and opinions across Britain”?
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Not a great start, is it?
How about the claim that GB News will be “proudly independent” and focus on “debate that embraces all voices and opinions across Britain”?
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This seems somewhat unlikely when ALL CONFIRMED STAFF SO FAR are right-wingers
GB News Chairman and lead presenter Andrew Neil made his name as Rupert Murdoch’s lackey at the Sunday Times
As editor of The Sunday Times Neil boasted that “Thatcher’s battles were our battles”
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GB News Chairman and lead presenter Andrew Neil made his name as Rupert Murdoch’s lackey at the Sunday Times
As editor of The Sunday Times Neil boasted that “Thatcher’s battles were our battles”
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As editor of the Sunday Times Neil was “a delirious sacker. He dumped so many people for being leftish”
And:
“Notoriously, refused to accept the consensus view of Aids, promoting the idea that this was a disease of gay men and drug addicts..."
Quote continues next tweet /9
And:
“Notoriously, refused to accept the consensus view of Aids, promoting the idea that this was a disease of gay men and drug addicts..."
Quote continues next tweet /9
"...attacking official advice that heterosexuals too were at risk”
Source: Davies, Nick., Flat Earth News
There's plenty of other evidence out there that Neil is a rabid right-winger (Spectator Chaiman, Iraq war), but what of the other lead recruits at GB News?
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Source: Davies, Nick., Flat Earth News
There's plenty of other evidence out there that Neil is a rabid right-winger (Spectator Chaiman, Iraq war), but what of the other lead recruits at GB News?
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"Chief executive Angelos Frangopoulos, a former boss of Sky News Australia"
"Rebecca Hutson who is joining as head of digital. The former Mail Online director of video will also appear on-air"
/11 https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/gb-news-launches-recruitment-drive-for-140-jobs-and-declares-commitment-to-impartial-journalism/
"Rebecca Hutson who is joining as head of digital. The former Mail Online director of video will also appear on-air"
/11 https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/gb-news-launches-recruitment-drive-for-140-jobs-and-declares-commitment-to-impartial-journalism/
"Lucinda Duckett has been named director of corporate affairs and editorial advocacy. Duckett most notably spent 13 years at News Corp Australia"
John McAndrew, a former director of content at Sky News...named director of news and programmes"
/12 https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/gb-news-launches-recruitment-drive-for-140-jobs-and-declares-commitment-to-impartial-journalism/
John McAndrew, a former director of content at Sky News...named director of news and programmes"
/12 https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/gb-news-launches-recruitment-drive-for-140-jobs-and-declares-commitment-to-impartial-journalism/
Headline recruit for GB News is Dan Wootton
Wooton left Murdoch's Sun to join GB News
Simultaneously, he took up a position as a columnist with the Mail on Sunday...
/13 https://www.irishnews.com/magazine/entertainment/2021/01/28/news/journalist-dan-wootton-to-present-show-on-gb-news-2202405/
Wooton left Murdoch's Sun to join GB News
Simultaneously, he took up a position as a columnist with the Mail on Sunday...
/13 https://www.irishnews.com/magazine/entertainment/2021/01/28/news/journalist-dan-wootton-to-present-show-on-gb-news-2202405/
Can you see a pattern emerging here?
We suppose it’s possible that a TV show funded by mega-rich free market devotees and staffed by ex-Murdoch, News Corp, Daily Mail right-wingers will be “impartial” and embrace “all voices and opinions”
Actually, no we don’t
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We suppose it’s possible that a TV show funded by mega-rich free market devotees and staffed by ex-Murdoch, News Corp, Daily Mail right-wingers will be “impartial” and embrace “all voices and opinions”
Actually, no we don’t
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Still, at least lead man Andrew Neil is as British as they come:
“I get out of London as much as possible when Parliament is not sitting" Neil boasted in an Independent column on his French chateau.
"I either come here or go to New York”
/15 https://www.independent.co.uk/property/interiors/carefully-edited-andrew-neil-s-french-retreat-858077.html
“I get out of London as much as possible when Parliament is not sitting" Neil boasted in an Independent column on his French chateau.
"I either come here or go to New York”
/15 https://www.independent.co.uk/property/interiors/carefully-edited-andrew-neil-s-french-retreat-858077.html
His New York apartment was purchased for a mere $3.2 million dollars, consolidating Neil's connection with the ordinary Brit
Said apartment is in Trump Tower, no less
Oh Andrew! You make it too easy!
/16 https://politicalscrapbook.net/2016/11/guess-which-prominent-bbc-presenter-owns-an-apartment-at-trump-world-towers/
Said apartment is in Trump Tower, no less
Oh Andrew! You make it too easy!
/16 https://politicalscrapbook.net/2016/11/guess-which-prominent-bbc-presenter-owns-an-apartment-at-trump-world-towers/
It appears that only ONE claim by GB News so far is true
They will be “fearless in tackling the issues people care about, especially in communities outside of London”
As we've seen, the communities GB News will serve do indeed exist outside of London...
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They will be “fearless in tackling the issues people care about, especially in communities outside of London”
As we've seen, the communities GB News will serve do indeed exist outside of London...
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With funding from wealthy investors in New Zealand and the US
Staffed by wealthy corporate journalists like Neil and Wootton, themselves part of globalised, jet-setting elite (Wootton is from New Zealand)
GB News will do the EXACT OPPOSITE of what it says it will...
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Staffed by wealthy corporate journalists like Neil and Wootton, themselves part of globalised, jet-setting elite (Wootton is from New Zealand)
GB News will do the EXACT OPPOSITE of what it says it will...
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Rather than serving ordinary Britons, GB News WILL IMPOSE ON THEM the libertarian, free market perspectives conducive to members of a transnational, capitalist elite of which Andrew Neil is a part
The evidence is clear. It is in this thread.
RT to spread the word!
The evidence is clear. It is in this thread.
RT to spread the word!
