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The Owen Jones Podcast

GB News has flopped

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Launched to throw petrol on the raging fires of Britain's culture war and take on the BBC and Sky News, GB News has been an embarrassing flop. Technical failures have been followed by ratings in freefall, and Andrew Neil - founder and the flagship presenter - has taken himself off the air indefinitely after just two weeks. Why was it such a failure, what does it tell us about the media landscape - and is it too soon to write it off completely? We're joined by Director of CLASS think tank Ellie Mae O'Hagan and media expert Leo Watkins.


Also, we talk about Matt Hancock's resignation and, with days to go until the Batley & Spen by election, things are getting tense on the ground. We talk to Oli Dugmore, head of politics at JOE, who was there this week, about the latest developments.


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0:00.0

Hiya, hello everyone, welcome to the show, on this pretty grey to your list, just went

0:17.0

for a run of that, miserable, not miserable, it's just the heat waivers, well I'm truly

0:22.0

passed.

0:23.0

Good to see everyone, welcome to the show, I know what's going to happen today, a load of

0:26.4

people are going to go kicking someone while they're down, having pleasure from the misfortune

0:31.6

of others.

0:32.6

And what I'd say is, in this case, yeah, fine, sure, I mean morally and philosophically

0:37.6

I don't have a problem with that, as long as the person we're talking about the people,

0:41.4

are those who are in this case trying to throw petrol on a massive cultural war with pretty

0:48.7

terrible political consequences for all concerned, GV News, that's what I'm talking about,

0:53.1

now GV News, GV News had delusions of grandeur and we'll talk about why they were delusions.

0:58.1

They came into the boxing match, pumped up, you know, high on the millions of pounds

1:03.3

that have been poured into them by investors, they were going to crush the woke left, slam

1:08.3

them into oblivion, they were going to take on the BBC, whatever problems they have with

1:12.6

the BBC, which we've covered in terms of their political coverage, they thought they were

1:17.1

going to take it on, they were going to smash the BBC, they were going to smash scour news,

1:21.8

they were going to be these media colossus that would dominate all before us, they've

1:29.6

crashed and burned essentially, that's what's happened.

1:33.0

Now we've got some great guests to talk about, I'm just doing my little preamble and I'll

1:36.4

just explain why, because we've already got some people who are quite angry about me

1:40.4

suggesting all is not that well in the GV News world.

1:45.8

Now look, technical hitches happened, technical hitches happened on this show, they may

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