Once again, it falls to Guido to set the narrative straight on GB News’ performance. Last night, according to independent BARB figures the channel pulled in double Sky News’ audience during the prime time evening spot, as well as regularly surging ahead during the breakfast show and the Morning Briefing when Westminster gets set up for the day ahead. Another sign of their mainstreaming is that their former presenters have finally captured the BBC’s role of providing Downing Street’s Director of Communications…
Last night Farage’s 7pm show pulled in a 0.15% audience share of 88,700, against Sky’s 0.08% share of 46,200 viewers. The following hour at 8pm GB News viewers fell to 47,300 for Mark Steyn’s show, however this was still twice what Sky’s Dermot Murnaghan was pulling in. TalkTV will be chomping at the bit for some of these viewers very shortly…
.@DermotMurnaghan asks foreign secretary @BorisJohnson about his freedom of movement views/comments #Murnaghan https://t.co/eZQrcbP5iT
— Murnaghan (@SkyMurnaghan) December 4, 2016
A big barney on Sky News as Dermot Murnaghan accuses Boris of lying over his free movement comments. Boris hits back by telling Sky their story was
“cooked up… I’m not entirely convinced your reporter talked to those ambassadors… Your story was a dud, it was wrong, it was a load of old baloney… [the journalist] was offered something that was completely untrue, it was nonsense… I’m glad that it’s been corrected.”
Miaow…
Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry had a meltdown when Dermot Murnaghan asked if she could name the French foreign minister. She couldn’t, so she accused Dermot of being a sexist. She couldn’t name the South Korean leader either. And then demanded to take the row off air…
Vid via @liarpoliticians
Dermot is back on our screens after his summer jollies, and the over-worked video monkeys at Sky News have treated us to this bonkers advert for his Sunday morning show:
Well Superman was a journalist…
Oooooooooooooooh!
