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hijaxers · 13-09-2021, 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

at least tell the truth

"Over the summer I've had time to reflect on my extensive portfolio of interests and decided it was time to cut back."

google translate: had a row with the MD and flounced off

Or is he actually ill ?

Oliver_W · 13-09-2021, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by bitontheslide

Andrew Neil has resigned as chairman and lead presenter of GB News, just three months after helping to launch the channel.

"It's official: I have resigned as Chairman and Lead Presenter of GB News," he posted on Twitter on Monday.

Neil, 72, was on air for less than two weeks before announcing he was taking a break.

The former BBC political presenter will continue to contribute to GB News as a regular guest commentator.

In a statement, he said: "I am sorry to go but I have concluded it's time to reduce my commitments on a number of fronts.

"Over the summer I've had time to reflect on my extensive portfolio of interests and decided it was time to cut back."

He added: "I wish GB News well in continuing to fulfil its founding promise and mission to reach audiences currently underserved by existing news broadcasters."

A statement from 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."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58464664

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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

at least tell the truth

"Over the summer I've had time to reflect on my extensive portfolio of interests and decided it was time to cut back."

google translate: had a row with the MD and flounced off

Either way, he's pretty old, so why shouldn't be cut back a bit on work stuff?

Crimson Dynamo · 13-09-2021, 06:04 PM

Youtube video

arista · 13-09-2021, 05:10 PM

arista · 13-09-2021, 05:12 PM

arista · 14-09-2021, 07:32 AM

bots · 14-09-2021, 09:58 AM

this guest thing is just a way of calming the 3 viewers that lookforward to seeing andrew on gb news. He will disappear from that too after a month or too, it's a standard ploy

arista · 14-09-2021, 10:15 AM

If it was just 3 viewers it would be shut down

Over 200,000 viewers at times

As a new channel more staff are being added
all the time
Link 20 years at SkyNews reporter Mark white
https://news.sky.com/author/mark-white-490

Now on GBnewsHD
last night infact

Crimson Dynamo · 14-09-2021, 10:28 AM

a new sports discussion show will air on weekend mornings.

user104658 · 14-09-2021, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

a new sports discussion show will air on weekend mornings.

GB News Poll:

Should we be making more offensive racial gestures at football matches?

21% Yes
3% No
76% Irrelevant as we should only have white players

Crimson Dynamo · 14-09-2021, 10:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

GB News Poll:

Should we be making more offensive racial gestures at football matches?

21% Yes
3% No
76% Irrelevant as we should only have white players

actually it was 18, 3 and 79%

so get your facts right

arista · 14-09-2021, 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

a new sports discussion show will air on weekend mornings.

Yes 9AM Sat and Sundays

New Changes
Also week days daytime Money Business "On The Money"
1PM - 1:30PM

user104658 · 14-09-2021, 10:52 AM

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Originally Posted by arista

Yes 9AM Sat and Sundays

New Changes
Also week days daytime Money Business "On The Money"
1PM - 1:30PM

GB News Poll:

Should we spend more on housing asylum seekers?

1% No
3% No! You have angered me by asking!
96% We should ringfence the money to send the SAS to blow up boats trying to cross the channel.

arista · 15-09-2021, 04:23 PM

Its not 7PM

Andrew Neil
is on GBnewsHD
right now

Cherie · 17-09-2021, 05:54 AM

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."
Andrew Neil quits GB News three months after launch
Guto Harri quits GB News over taking the knee row
Ofcom will not investigate GB News complaints
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

bots · 17-09-2021, 07:11 AM

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

user104658 · 17-09-2021, 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by bitontheslide

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

Indeed...

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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.

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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.

user104658 · 17-09-2021, 08:03 AM

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"

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