Ofcom has finally decided to take a look at GB News, the channel which recruits Tory MP’s and books Tory MP’s to appear on their shows.
In recent weeks, GB news has handed talk shows to Jacob Rees-Mogg and his colleague Lee Anderson, the deputy-chairman of the party.
Anderson appeared on Rees-Mogg’s show before he was given his own slot. I’ll spare you the suspense. He wasn’t grilled.
Nigel Farage also has a nightly show on GB News.
It’s Vaudeville.
GB News is not alone. LBC started the trend. The Global Media owned talk radio station has previously hired Labour’s David Lammy, London Mayor Sadiq Khan and Rachel Johnson to host shows.
TalkTV boasts Reform leader Richard Tice as one of its presenters. Tory MP Nadine Dorries has her own show.
For years, I was alone in calling it out.
I made fun of it. I mean, when you think about it, it was the obvious next move for the media wasn’t it? The Fourth Estate collapsed decades ago. It’s a gatekeeper now. It’s a propaganda machine, owned and controlled by the architects of the Great Reset.
It’s a mind-fuck.
It’s like, “Hey guys, you know how we don’t hold politicians accountable, right? Let’s properly fuck with people’s minds and give MP’s their own TV and radio shows where they can “interview” their party colleagues!”
Hilarious. However, the UK broadcast regulator has decided to take a look at it.
According to The Telegraph:
GB News faces an investigation into whether it broke broadcast impartiality rules when it allowed Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to be interviewed by two Tory MPs.
A show on March 11 featured Mr Hunt answering questions from Esther McVey and Philip Davies ahead of the Budget.
The Conservative MPs both have paid presenting roles at the Right-leaning channel.
Broadcasting regulator Ofcom confirmed it was examining whether the programme, Saturday Morning with Esther and Philip, broke its rules.
“We’re investigating whether this broke our rules requiring news [and] current affairs to be presented with due impartiality,” Ofcom said.
“As part of this, we will look at the programme’s compliance with our rules on politicians presenting programmes, and whether it included a wide range of significant views relating to a matter of major political controversy or current public spending.”
GB News was contacted for comment.
Last month, Ofcom found that GB News had broken its rules during an April 2022 broadcast by TV host Mark Steyn, who made “materially misleading” comments that there was a link between the Covid-19 vaccine and higher death rates.
GB News defended the broadcast and Mr Steyn’s “right to challenge the status quo”, and noted Ofcom had not imposed a financial penalty.
Several current Conservative MPs have taken lucrative jobs at broadcasters.
GB News also employs Conservative deputy chairman Lee Anderson, who will be paid £100,000 per year, and former minister Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Ms McVey received more than £58,000 for presenting shows on GB News last year, while Mr Davies was paid £44,000, according to Parliament’s transparency records.
Former Labour MP Gloria de Piero, meanwhile, also has a role at the channel.
Separately, Ofcom ruled it would not pursue an investigation into whether an interview of Boris Johnson by his former culture secretary, Nadine Dorries, on Rupert Murdoch’s TalkTV broke its rules on Feb 3.
Ofcom said it had received 40 complaints about the interview, but added the show was a “non-news programme and therefore could be presented by a politician; and adequately reflected alternative viewpoints and provided sufficient context”.
An Ofcom spokesman said politicians are allowed to present current affairs programmes under its rules, providing they are not standing for election, but they must ensure a range of views are reflected.
They really are laughing in our faces.
What do you give MP’s who rode roughshod over human rights with illegal lockdowns?
What do you give MP’s who enabled the roll-out of untested and unproven gene therapy drugs, while indemnifying the manufacturers of those drugs from prosecution?
What do you give MP’s who, when they realised that the experimental drugs were in fact causing widespread harm, participated in the subsequent cover-up?
That’s easy. You give them their own fucking television shows.
Vaudeville.
