I had to resist the offer of a tour of their facilities this month.
I was super curious, but I really didn't want to deal with the "hey, you seem like you like us, want to work here?" messages afterwards.
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You should have taken the tour. Not flushed the lavs, used all the tea bags, left the wet coffee spoon in the sugar, turned the fridge off etc.
I love how Mark Kermode refers to them as GBeebies
I though they avoid being under the rules of impartiality of news by being an entertainment channel that happened to have "news" in its name.
Scum.
That's what they claimed but the thing is you're a news channel if you deliver news. You can even say that only the part of the channel that's actually presented as news is news and the rest is entertainment, like morning talk shows do, but the news bit is under news broadcast rules technically.
I think it's very inditing they are even trying it on. They are a propaganda channel and using "news" in their name is completely disingenuous. If they are news they are breaking impartiality rules if they are not they are doing false advertising. They could be arguing to be breaking both.
As I said before. Scum.
GB news even pretend to be impartial?!?!
LOL.
Everything GB News has done so far, and only now are Ofcom stating to consider taking action? O suppose whatever action they take will be equally as limp. A strongly worded letter maybe.
I actually think they're corrupt. There's just no possible way that they haven't considered them to have broken the rules prior to now. I say look into the finances of the director.
Given this represents a serious and repeated breach of these rules, we are now starting the process for consideration of a statutory sanction against GB News.
Even by their own admission they are useless. They fully acknowledge that they broke the rules on multiple occasions but they did nothing about it, and now they're considering maybe, possibly, doing something about it.
They're not definitely going to do anything about it. The best they are prepared to agree to, is that they will consider doing something about it.
Wow thanks guys. All the time you are considering whether the people who definitely broke the rules need to be punished for definitely breaking the rules, they'll continue to break the rules. Just sanction them now, what have you got to consider?
what have you got to consider?
Cost. Austerity really means the department cannot afford to fight a case.
And you know GB will fund a legal complaint.
Yeah right. That would require Ofcom to actually do something and we all know they won't. The enforcement agency has less teeth than your average granny. Even the ICO has more enforcement, which is a depressingly low bar.
You realise the reason ofcomm has no teeth.
Right wing party with almost 15 years of austerity. Create department without teeth to take right wing tv channel to court.
Not a coincidence.