I recently posted an article about the effects of Fox News to the politics community.
Fox News is like a virus of the mind, it attacks and destroys reasonable thinking and puts people in a constant state of fear so they're addicted to watching the program. It tears apart families and infects other with their propaganda too. It spreads lies, misinformation and disinformation.
When I first found out about GB News I felt really worried that another country would have what is essentially a carbon copy of Fox News. It's the same brainwashing slop that differs only in accent. That's why I want to warn about this and do what I can to stop it, I don't want anyone else to suffer the way we're suffering in America. It's scary here, people are getting detained for no reason, even U.S. citizens who had valid ID on them.
I also see Fox News as being similar to a cancer. It will keep growing and growing until someone stops it. In America we didn't do enough to stop Fox News so the cancer has been growing, spreading to other parts of the body and now we're really sick. With advance treatment I think we'll make it but it's not going to be easy. Once we beat our cancer we'll probably have to spend a lot of time fixing the damage caused by the cancer.
My understanding is that GB News is still somewhat in it's infancy, like a stage 1 or stage 2 cancer. You can beat GB News a lot easier than we can beat Fox News. That's why I'm calling on you to take action now and defeat GB News.
You have the power to prevent the U.K. from becoming like the U.S. I recently found out about a campaign called "Stop Funding Hate". They do a great job listing who advertised on GB News on their Bluesky account.. Consider following them and contacting the advertisers. It could only take a few minutes a day and it will make a huge difference in defunding hate.
Another idea is writing to Legatum, the foreign Dubai based investors who own GB News. Contact them here: https://www.legatum.com/about/contact/. Tell them you don't like GB News.
Also consider sending this video: https://bsky.app/profile/stopfundingheat.bsky.social/post/3lnhwsu7h6c2j to Ofcom. Proof that the purpose of GB News is influence.
The Mudroch propaganda machine has been operating in U.K. for a long time already. The disease is more advanced than this post suggests.
I heard that Sky News got sold and I think since improved but you're right that there are a lot of non-Murdoch bad publications like The Daily Mail.
Is there a different Murdoch-owned new station or newspaper I don't know about in the U.K.?
Sky News hasn’t changed. There are regulations meaning TV news must be duly impartial and accurate, so there was little prospect of the slagging matches going on on Fox News and MSNBC in the US. Sky has always been a respectable news service.
The Sun, The Times, The Sunday Times
Thank you for that! I didn't know he owned so many. I wish News Corp called themselves News Corpse because News Corp is where honest news and integrity go to die. (Note that these publications are actually owned by News UK but one of his other companies is called News Corp)
NewsCorp is the parent company that owns these businesses