[arista]

Its not 7PM

Andrew Neil
is on GBnewsHD
right now

[Cherie]

Former BBC presenter Andrew Neil says he left GB News over the direction the channel was taking, saying he became a "minority of one" within management.
The journalist told BBC Question Time he would let people "make up their own minds" over whether his exit was because the channel was too right wing.
He also described the launch of the new station as not a "startling success".
Neil resigned on Monday as lead presenter and chairman just three months after the channel went to air.
In a statement at the time, he said he had decided to "reduce [his] commitments on a number of fronts" - something he repeated on BBC One - and wished it well for the future.
In response, GB News said: "Andrew is without doubt one of the finest journalists and interviewers in this country.
"GB News thanks him for his 12 months of leadership, wisdom and advice, and we wish him well."
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The TV channel launched in June, promising to "change the face of news and debate in the UK".
It recruited a number of big names alongside Neil, including former BBC News presenter Simon McCoy, ITV veteran Alastair Stewart and ex-Sun journalist Dan Wootton.
But it has been troubled by low viewing figures and resignations from other staff members, including the former advisor to Boris Johnson and ex-BBC correspondent Guto Harri.
Neil, 72, was on air for less than two weeks before announcing he was taking a break. amid reports that relations between him and chief executive Angelos Frangopoulos had broken down over the direction of the company.
'Draw your own conclusions'
In his first appearance since leaving the channel, Neil was asked by a Question Time audience member whether the recent resignations would lead GB News to become "a new British Fox News" - the US news channel popular with right-wing viewers.
The journalist said he had "always made it clear it wouldn't be a British Fox News", claiming the US channel "deals in untruths, it deals in conspiracy theories, and it deals in fake news".
He added: "That is not my kind of journalism and I would never have set out to do that."
But pressed on whether the comparison was why he left, Neil said: "I will let you draw your own conclusions as to why I am here tonight and not with GB News."
He added: "In the run-up to the launch, through the launch and in the aftermath of the launch and I think most of you who know anything about it will know you couldn't file the launch under startling success, more and more differences emerged between myself and the other senior managers and the board of GB News.
"And rather than these differences narrowing, they got wider and wider and I felt it was best that if that's the route they wanted to take then that's up to them, it's their money."
'Good luck to them'
Pushed again by presenter Fiona Bruce on whether the channel had gone "too far to the right", Neil said: "People should make up their own minds on that.
"What I have told you is the differences were such, the direction they were going in was not the direction that I had outlined, it was not the direction that I had envisaged for the channel and I was in the minority of one.
"So it is doing what it is doing and it is up to them, good luck to them if that is what they want to do, but it wasn't going to be with me."

BBC

[bitontheslide]

yeah, it's much to right wing for his taste, and on top of that, it's amateurish drivel

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

yeah, it's much to right wing for his taste, and on top of that, it's amateurish drivel

Indeed...

Pushed again by presenter Fiona Bruce on whether the channel had gone "too far to the right", Neil said: "People should make up their own minds on that."

That's a yes, then. Too far right, too reactionary, not real journalism.

In the run-up to the launch, through the launch and in the aftermath of the launch and I think most of you who know anything about it will know you couldn't file the launch under startling success

"...and the other reason is that it's a pile of crap."


All in all pretty damning let's face it.

[Nicky91]

good on Andrew leaving that hellhole of bigots

i have more respect for him now

[Toy Soldier]

By the way, I don't think the new Murdoch/Morgan channel will do all that much better. These people need to realise that it's 2021 and broadcast television is dying. The mainstream channels are hanging onto viewers by their fingernails, no one is going to bother with a "new channel" .

[arista]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

good on Andrew leaving that hellhole of bigots

i have more respect for him now

He remains a Contributor
so he is still giving Live commentary

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by arista

He remains a Contributor
so he is still giving Live commentary

Surely not for long if he keeps trashing them like above

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by arista

He remains a Contributor
so he is still giving Live commentary

No longer it seems

[Tom4784]

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[Cherie]

Originally Posted by MTVN

No longer it seems

Oh my!

[arista]

Originally Posted by MTVN

No longer it seems

Yes he has gone for good now.

Doing well on BBC1HD QT.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

What a farce of a 'news' channel.

It is not
New On the Money
at lunch Time



Great Long debates.

[jet]

They have debates on lots of different topics. It's an interesting and new way of presenting news in more depth.

[Alf]

How's it doing in the viewer ratings compared to the BBC ITV, Channel 4 and Sky news, Arista?

[bitontheslide]

Originally Posted by MTVN

No longer it seems

we all knew he had fallen out with them, it was so obvious and why he left 2 weeks after the channel started

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Mmm still the bigot comment is there for you to call out as that is your bag

Just quote the post where I've ever called you a bigot. Really strange turn you've taken recently.

[arista]

Andrew was on Politics Live today BBC2HD, as a guest speaker.
He is back at his home in France

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

Just quote the post where I've ever called you a bigot. Really strange turn you've taken recently.

Quote the post I said you did? you have claimed to call out bigots on the forum have you not? Yet Im the strange one...yeah

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Quote the post I said you did? you have claimed to call out bigots on the forum have you not? Yet Im the strange one...yeah

Well if this post doesn't show how normal you're acting, then I don't know what will convince folks.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

Well if this post doesn't show how normal you're acting, then I don't know what will convince folks.

We love gaslighting

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Cherie

We love gaslighting

You've made snide digs in my direction for ages, starting out of nowhere, and I just let most of them go. I've never slagged you off or anything, but you go out of your way to try and provoke me. It's just weird. So what's that you have to say about gaslighting?