Mostly because nobody will be watching TV apart from the olders
Putinism is not just a Russian problem. Trumpism is not just an American problem. This is the same authoritarian playbook as in Turkey, Hungary etc.
Correction: far right.
That’s just fascism
Hey UK, having seen this happen here, and ending with not one but two trump administrations which have literally destroyed our courts and our government, I strongly encourage you to fight this with every tool at your disposal until it is gone.
There’s nothing working class people can do, this channel is having billions poured into it by the people who really want it to be successful.
Who does the channel need to be popular, and to spread its diseased ideas?
Well yeah that’s the reason, to spread its diseased ideas. It’s a hate-fuelled propaganda machine.
This is concerning.
Across the full day, from 6am to 2am, GB News had average views of 80,610 in July according to BARB figures shared by the broadcaster. It said the BBC News Channel was on 78,650 while Sky News was on 67,000 on average.
My broader takeaway here is that the British must not be watching a whole lot of television anymore.
Here are the top US rankings:
https://ustvdb.com/ratings/networks/
- Fox News, at 2,855,000
- ABC, at 2,510,000
- CBS, at 2,115,000
The UK has a smaller population, but not that much smaller.
BBC1 and BBC2 will each have several times more viewers than BBC News. The statistic in the op + the channels that GB News is comparing themselves too, are cherry picked by GB News.
If they are in the business of spreading misinformation and misrepresentation, then it shouldn’t come as a surprise that they also do that when they are patting themselves on the back.
Everything that mini usa called UK does is kinda irrelevant to europe because they aren’t in EU anymore.
They’re still European, much closer to the EU geopolitically, and if you think about the many damaging trends we import from the macro USA, which is further distanced from us, it’s not such a big leap forward to think this might also contribute negatively to the social climate in the EU. Not to mention the UK itself.
