GB News In Misogynistic Meltdown - Laurence Fox Suspended
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 28 September 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
After the nauseating misogynistic attacks on journalist Ava Evans, Laurence Fox has been suspended by GB News - but Dan Wootton, himself the subject of serious accusations, apparently remains on air. But what now for this cesspit of a news channel - and what does this episode tell us about Britain in 2023?
We're joined by Novara Media's Dalia Gebrial.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello, we're so late, I just we just cancelled the opening music because we're so embarrassed about our extremely late start, sorry about everyone, I know easy, easy, the little jingle. |
| 0:14.0 | To be honest, not everyone appreciates the jingle, so maybe we should just get rid of it all together, but that was a bit of a hard start. It was like, bam, and you in. |
| 0:22.0 | So we'll work on that, we'll just think about with it, who knows. Anyway, we have a lot to talk about today to say the least. |
| 0:29.0 | So we're going to focus today on the escalating scandal, which is now enveloping GB news, GB news, of course, is the hard right channel, which was launched back in 2021. |
| 0:41.0 | Now, we're remembering back then some amusement because Andrew Neil, many of you remember he was a flagship interviewer for the BBC. |
| 0:51.0 | And he helped launch, of course, GB news and he promised a long time it's not going to be Fox News, it's not going to be Fox News. |
| 0:58.0 | Before, admittedly, I think partly riled by its technical incompetence, he fled. |
| 1:03.0 | And now it's interesting that he fled because, as I would also know, Andrew Neil is the chairman of the right wing spectator magazine, which has printed articles, such as in praise of the very act, articles praising Greek neo Nazis, as well as articles arguing there's not enough Islamophobia in the conservative party. |
| 1:21.0 | So, as far as Andrew Neil was concerned, chairing the spectator, and we will, I am talking about the spectator later, because I don't want this just to be a focus on GB news, but the broader right wing ecosystem and much much else. |
| 1:34.0 | But it is notable. |
| 1:36.0 | What, what, what some consumer can, and what others, and what, I guess what, what one man can stomach and what, on the other hand, he can't. |
| 1:45.0 | But in terms of GB news, so GB news is now enveloped in a major scandal, which is centering on Lawrence Fox, the hard right, I think that's putting it mildly provocateur and failed actor. |
| 1:56.0 | Dan Wooten, who is a shock jock presenter, who's been embroiled, it should be said, in a scandal of his own, which has gone largely unreported by most media outlets. Now the scandal, which many of you will be aware of, centers on exceptionally out out and out, just flagrant misogyny. |
| 2:16.0 | So, there are a lot of Lawrence Fox, with the, the, the, the accomplice, you know, Dan Wooten as accomplice in, in that misogyny, directed Ava Evans, who is herself an accomplished journalist, who works at Joe.co.uk, as well as having worked at LBC and other media organizations. Now many of you, of course, will be aware of exactly what happened. |
| 2:39.0 | I am going to show the clip, and I show the clip having thought about whether we were going to do that. And just because it is grease and vial misogyny. |
| 2:48.0 | Ava Evans has herself shared it, and obviously she was on the receiving end, and I think it is important that we record what happened, and that we talk about what happened with, with the facts. So we're going to, we're going to, I'm going to show this. |
| 3:01.0 | If you haven't seen it, it is, it is misogyny, outright misogyny, undisguised misogyny, so do you better than mine. |
| 3:08.0 | We're past the watershed, so I can say this, and show me a single self-respective man, they would like to climb into bed with that woman, ever. |
| 3:17.0 | Ever, who wasn't an insell, who wasn't a cocked little insell, that little woman has been fed spoon fed oppression day of today, of today, of today, starting with the lie of the gender wage gap. |
| 3:31.0 | And she said, and I'm going, if I met you in a bar, and that was like sentence three, chances of me just walking away are just huge. |
| 3:40.0 | We need powerful, strong, amazing women who make great points for themselves. We don't need these sort of feminist 4.0. They're pathetic and embarrassing. Who'd want to shag that? |
| 3:52.0 | Oh, Laurence, well, look, she, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just going to provide a touch of balance from her because she did actually respond to this earlier today, saying that she regretted her comments, but she didn't apologise. |
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