Meghan/Harry

[admars]

a friend of mine (English, white male) married a Chinese lady. I remember when she was pregnant, he told me she was worried what colour the child's skin would be, what shape eyes would be etc, as it could lead to the child being bullied.

[jfman]

That's what happens when you live near racists.

[TheDaddy]

I don't suppose Morgan is that bothered, he was probably sick of getting up early anyway

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by admars

a friend of mine (English, white male) married a Chinese lady. I remember when she was pregnant, he told me she was worried what colour the child's skin would be, what shape eyes would be etc, as it could lead to the child being bullied.

Perfectly understandable, nobody wants their child to have a hard time in life.

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Originally Posted by TheDaddy

I don't suppose Morgan is that bothered, he was probably sick of getting up early anyway

I think that it was an act of self promotion & a way to get out of any ITV contract to join the new right wing leaning news channel that's due to start.

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

I think that it was an act of self promotion & a way to get out of any ITV contract to join the new right wing leaning news channel that's due to start.

Nah, he's just an immature has been who can't stand not being loved.

It's rare I agree with Rupert Murdoch who said Morgan's balls were bigger than his brain.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

Perfectly understandable, nobody wants their child to have a hard time in life.

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I think that it was an act of self promotion & a way to get out of any ITV contract to join the new right wing leaning news channel that's due to start.

A minor point of information ... Ofcom rules prevent any UK broadcaster from having a political stance. GBN won’t be right wing because that would be illegal. Piers Morgan might well love to see himself as a sort of British Tucker Carlson but if he wants that, he’s going to have to emigrate and try to get a job on Fox News. Which would be a great outcome for everyone come to think of it.

I think GBN is getting a reputation for being right wing, despite not having launched yet, because it’s being run by Andrew Neil. He certainly has an impressively right-of-centre CV when it comes to print media but let’s not forget he held down a series of influential positions within the BBC for many years so he knows how the broadcast news game is played in this country. He isn’t going to try to emulate Fox or anything close to it. Though the chief benefit to British TV news of Brillo operating in this space is that he doesn’t give metropolitan lefty opinion parrots the easy ride many of his former colleagues often seem to. They’re actually made to defend their positions when they come up against him rather than being allowed to assert their views as self-evident. If that’s what passes for right wing TV journalism then bring it on ...

I’m not convinced Piers Morgan would be a good hire for GBN anyway. I suspect the strategy is to be a serious news provider and a viable competitor to the BBC. Piers Morgan exists just to wind people up.

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by Chris

A minor point of information ... Ofcom rules prevent any UK broadcaster from having a political stance. GBN won’t be right wing because that would be illegal. Piers Morgan might well love to see himself as a sort of British Tucker Carlson but if he wants that, he’s going to have to emigrate and try to get a job on Fox News. Which would be a great outcome for everyone come to think of it.

I think GBN is getting a reputation for being right wing, despite not having launched yet, because it’s being run by Andrew Neil. He certainly has an impressively right-of-centre CV when it comes to print media but let’s not forget he held down a series of influential positions within the BBC for many years so he knows how the broadcast news game is played in this country. He isn’t going to try to emulate Fox or anything close to it. Though the chief benefit to British TV news of Brillo operating in this space is that he doesn’t give metropolitan lefty opinion parrots the easy ride many of his former colleagues often seem to. They’re actually made to defend their positions when they come up against him rather than being allowed to assert their views as self-evident. If that’s what passes for right wing TV journalism then bring it on ...

I’m not convinced Piers Morgan would be a good hire for GBN anyway. I suspect the strategy is to be a serious news provider and a viable competitor to the BBC. Piers Morgan exists just to wind people up.

Piers Morgan would not be a popular choice for FoxNews as he's seen as too anti-gun. He ticks the anti-woke box but not the pro-NRA one.

I very much doubt GBN has the resources to compete with the likes of the BBC on the news front. I think it will have to be more commentary-led.

There is also the forthcoming News UK streaming channel in the pipeline too which could be attractive for Piers Morgan. He would be returning to a past employer.

Originally Posted by Chris

A minor point of information ... Ofcom rules prevent any UK broadcaster from having a political stance.

Don't recall Channel 4 ever being challenged on their apparent left wing stance?

Originally Posted by Mick

Don't recall Channel 4 ever being challenged on their apparent left wing stance?

They’re very good at sailing close to the wind, that’s for sure ...

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by Mick

Don't recall Channel 4 ever being challenged on their apparent left wing stance?

Maybe because there isn't one? Just your own bias making everyone else seem 'biased'?

If anything the media in this country is biased towards the status quo, whether that's left or right wing at the time. Probably a self-preservation motivation.

[Carth]

More fall out from the latest 'woke bomb' . .

Meghan racism row: Society of Editors boss Ian Murray resigns

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56355274

blah blah heavily criticised blah blah rebuild its reputation blah blah lot of work to be done blah blah diversity and inclusion . .

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

Piers Morgan would not be a popular choice for FoxNews as he's seen as too anti-gun. He ticks the anti-woke box but not the pro-NRA one.

I very much doubt GBN has the resources to compete with the likes of the BBC on the news front. I think it will have to be more commentary-led.

There is also the forthcoming News UK streaming channel in the pipeline too which could be attractive for Piers Morgan. He would be returning to a past employer.

I read today that News UK will only be on YouTube for two hours a day, no idea if it's true or not.

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Originally Posted by Chris

A minor point of information ... Ofcom rules prevent any UK broadcaster from having a political stance. GBN won’t be right wing because that would be illegal. Piers Morgan might well love to see himself as a sort of British Tucker Carlson but if he wants that, he’s going to have to emigrate and try to get a job on Fox News. Which would be a great outcome for everyone come to think of it.

I think GBN is getting a reputation for being right wing, despite not having launched yet, because it’s being run by Andrew Neil. He certainly has an impressively right-of-centre CV when it comes to print media but let’s not forget he held down a series of influential positions within the BBC for many years so he knows how the broadcast news game is played in this country. He isn’t going to try to emulate Fox or anything close to it. Though the chief benefit to British TV news of Brillo operating in this space is that he doesn’t give metropolitan lefty opinion parrots the easy ride many of his former colleagues often seem to. They’re actually made to defend their positions when they come up against him rather than being allowed to assert their views as self-evident. If that’s what passes for right wing TV journalism then bring it on ...

I’m not convinced Piers Morgan would be a good hire for GBN anyway. I suspect the strategy is to be a serious news provider and a viable competitor to the BBC. Piers Morgan exists just to wind people up.

Apparently, during a BBC News interview with Reeta Chakrabarti, Andrew Neil said that he would be "delighted to speak to Piers Morgan about a new role with GB News".

When she asked him what role he would give him, he said he "wasn't going to use the medium of the BBC to conduct a job offer".

[RichardCoulter]

Suggestion that all this has been orchestrated to take the focus off Prince Andrew:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...box=1615274414

Personally, I think that they left the UK because Andrew kept offering to babysit

[jfman]

Originally Posted by Carth

More fall out from the latest 'woke bomb' . .

Meghan racism row: Society of Editors boss Ian Murray resigns

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56355274

Not to much a wake bomb as he said something demonstrably untrue. All anyone had to do was find one racist journalist or headline and they'd proved him wrong which is why it's always dangerous to make statements in absolute terms.

If you can't see the problem then you definitely aren't part of the solution.

It'd be like the society of football fans saying there are no racists football fans. Any group large enough has a minority of racist morons because they are a small proportion of the population as a whole.

[GrimUpNorth]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

Suggestion that all this has been orchestrated to take the focus off Prince Andrew:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...box=1615274414

Personally, I think that they left the UK because Andrew kept offering to babysit

That's not funny