Plaid Cymru staff banned Caerphilly by-election winner Lindsay Whittle from speaking to GB News last night… just minutes after he appeared on the channel. And after Whittle thanked GB’s political correspondent Katherine Forster for being the only broadcaster to ask about the late Hefin David…
Moments after interviewing Whittle, Forster revealed Plaid’s press team had decided they now “don’t engage with GB News“:
“He would have come to talk to us again on GB News, but his press team stopped him. They told me, despite the interview that we had done, despite him thanking us, that they do not engage with GB News… Lindsey Whittle obviously was more than happy to do so. But the powers that be implied Plaid Cymru do not want to talk to us.”
Ridiculous…
GB News has beaten both BBC News and Sky News for the third month in a row now. The BARB figures don’t lie…
Here are the all day viewer shares for the last three months:
July
August
September
Private BARB figures show GB News has grown its audience share month on month on month. Tellingly culture minister Stephanie Peacock was full of praises for the channel at its Labour Conference party this year. When the herd moves…
At Labour conference last night, DCMS minister Stephanie Peacock praised GB News for giving a “voice” to her constituents and “championing stories across our nations and regions.” She was joined by a number of Labour MPs and peers at the GB News reception in Browns’ Brasserie…
Her warm words put her at odds with DCMS Secretary Lisa Nandy, who earlier this month claimed the channel was corroding trust in news and undermining the “shared understanding that is the basis of democracy.” Nandy warned: “We’ll look closely at what Ofcom presents to us, but it is an area in which we intend to act”…
Two ministers, two messages. “Polarised” and “fragmented”, in the words of Nandy…
Jolyon declared war on GB News and lost. According to the Good Law Project, the channel’s reporting of the rape gangs scandal was “at odds with government data that reports that only 7% of group-based child sexual exploitation suspects had their ethnicity recorded as ‘Asian'”. Data which was later described by Baroness Casey as “incomplete”, “unreliable”, and a “bloody disaster”…
GB News’ Charlie Peters said this afternoon:
GB News has proudly and bravely pushed against that denial, championing the victims affected by this scandal through countless exclusive reports that have led to political resignations and fresh police investigations… Our coverage reflected the sincerely held views of the British people, which the government eventually caught up on when it ordered an inquiry in June. When it comes to the small boats crisis, recent headline government action and new operational agreements with France represent the importance of this issue. It is a national security crisis that Britons urgently want to see tackled.”
Jolyon and his pals obviously still clinging to the shibboleths of the North London dinner party class on this…
In a busy month for TV news, the latest BARB viewing figures reveal that GB News has outpaced BBC News and Sky News on average for the whole of July. GB’s total average viewership across the month stood at 1.37%, compared to the BBC’s 1.33% and Sky’s way down on 1.14%. Summer of content for the People’s Channel…
Yesterday, GB News raked in an average of 92,400 live views, while BBC News had 58,100 and Sky News only 54,900. A reminder that Comcast has not yet renewed their contract with Sky. Britain’s news channel leaving the mainstream media in the dust…
Guido News Editor Max Young appeared on GB News’ Patrick Christys Tonight to discuss the website’s recent coverage freebies handed out to asylum seekers on a wide basis across the country. This scandal is only growing…
Badenoch said at her speech on Monday morning: “We are absolutely ready to fight a general election. We saw the results in Aberdeen South: 50% of the vote. Because we can unite the country… It’s about uniting the country, for God’s sake, behind a centre-right agenda.”