Could controversial new channel GB News help us to understand different perspectives and escape the echo chamber effect?
The ladies discuss controversial new UK news channel, GB News, which features partisan anchors and guests who appear to be passionate about right-wing politics, despite Britain’s broadcasting laws requiring news channels to remain impartial, and debate whether we need such a channel to represent viewpoints that are allegedly suppressed by mainstream broadcasters like BBC News, Sky News and Channel 4 News.
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(Website – Show notes)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/gb-news-fox-news-british/619210/
(Article – Fox News Gets a British Accent – Helen Lewis for The Atlantic)
(Article – GB News launch gains more viewers than BBC or Sky news channels – Kevin Rawlinson and Jim Waterson for The Guardian)
(Article – Campaigners urge advertisers not to fund “Fox News style” channels in Britain – Richard Wilson for Ethical Consumer)
https://stopfundinghate.info/2021/06/14/gb-news-advertisers/
(Campaign – GB News advertisers – Stop Funding Hate)
(Article – GB News: Lord Sugar calls out Dan Wootton for asking ‘stupid bloody question’ in awkward interview – Jacob Stolworthy for The Independent)
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Join Monah, Nushy Rose and Sophie Hannah, three smart, curious and opinionated highly-melanated women, as they and their guests discuss everything from current affairs to pop culture, and everything in between. No subject is off limits for these ladies, especially when it comes to issues affecting British communities of colour. Get ready to laugh, learn and liberate your mind, because if there’s one thing you can guarantee, it’s that the Ethnically Speaking ladies will be giving it to you straight!
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