GB News and Talk TV chaos reveals dark truth about mainstream media.Nesrin Malik

MeThere has never been a better channel than this. GB News, apparently, lost half its value Since its launch last year. Shareholder Discovery has sold its stake in the channel In August, Accounts filed after the sale show that a 25% stake in the company, originally purchased for £20m, was sold for just £8m. One of his buyers, her Vote Leave backer Paul His Lord Marshall, said of his participation in the new funding round: One of the channel’s “fresh perspectives” on the coronavirus vaccine was Under investigation By media regulator Ofcom.

If you throw more cash into the channel, Average views per day It sounds like a waste of money for less than a minute, but spare a thought for those paying Piers Morgan’sMore Reported £50m deal on Talk TV. Ratings are comically low. “Morgan said good evening nobody from Good Morning Britain.” slateOther big names have not fared well.Earlier this year, Tom Newton Dunn didn’t register one viewer half of his evening broadcast. Both channels, which have established themselves as challengers to mainstream ‘awakened’ channels catering to limited audiences, are actually not in the ‘linear TV’ business at all, he said. It has awakened a new world of “content TV”. , no one actually watches TV and instead scrolls through that clip on social media.However, someone who no longer watches the TV channel doesn’t want to follow him on social either. On Talk TV, he has 83,000 TikTok followers, which is below the average for the “I ate this much in a day” account.

Even though the former secured advertising, the repositioning from ratings to views suggests that the entire model of right-wing television is adjusting its course from commercial viability to sustainable loss. suggests. The bad news is that this model isn’t stalled because there’s no appetite for inflammatory, opinion-based news. Because it’s too much. The desire is so great, in fact, that it taps into the very mainstream media that these channels thought they were trying to differentiate. The swamps of right-wing media are not so fertile. Full tank.

look around If you want to bashing immigrants, some of our tabloids are some of the best in the industry. condemned by the United Nations For in the case of Katie Hopkins’ column for The Sun, she called immigrants “cockroaches” and described them as “a troubling underpinning of the racism that has characterized the immigration debate in an increasing number of EU Member States. If you’re trying to agitate civil servants, judges, and members of Congress for the “will of the people,” the Daily Mail has you covered.

If you’re a more sophisticated reader, broadsheets can give you classy fury in a sophisticated way. and found that a total of 2 books were removed from the reading list and serve you. “Exclusive” Splash “Universities have begun removing books from reading lists to protect students from ‘challenging’ content,” it said. Look what they did there. Technically true, your credit.

After all, who needs TV debates when there’s phone-input radio?

No shelter from the swamp. Even if you look for a higher spot, the water will rush to your feet. The last bastion of that ‘fairness’, the BBC has stripped away all notions of responsibility and reduced them to gullibility, treating almost all positions as if they were of equal value and funded Allowed profits to promote their own version of reality.Result is capture By the indulgence of unscrutinized right-wing think tanks and climate crisis deniers.

But the biggest giveaway for the wider ideological consensus is the revolving door of “talent.”During these media houses, between the publication of denunciations in the Sun and literary supplements, or between the BBC and GBNewsand to Downing Street.

It’s all one ecosystem, one that has always disguised its uniformity with claims of censorship and revocation. John Cleese Cast yourself as a rebellious prankster in a bland, neutered monoculture.They’re right about the monoculture bit, but it’s not “awakened” or helpless., It forms a political culture of stinginess and closedness. People look to the media for information as well as a moral compass, and that needle is now pointing away from a world of equality and shared resources.

The result is a devastating right-wing dominance, sustained well beyond its natural demise, despite the disastrous scenarios predicted by the Tories under Labor government being under their scrutiny. The lights literally go out, and the Telegraph tells us that blackouts are character building.

As such, the value of GB News could be halved or significantly reduced in all respects.this It does not portend radical new ground, but merely another home for harmful positions and people already present in our politics. I was afraid could become. The challenge was not to challenge mainstream media, but to significantly differentiate it from mainstream media.