Re: Anyone watched GB News?
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Taunton Blue Genie
These days, if you say you like German humour they'll throw you in jail.
Re: Anyone watched GB News?
Quote:
Originally Posted by
chrisp_1927
I'm terms of an unfair news agenda, I'm more concerned about nation.cymru, the 'news site ' that the original link is from. Funded by the Welsh government, seemingly as a bit of a propaganda machine for Welsh labour. Not sure how that's even allowed to happen.
Far from it. You've obviously not taken a moment to research nation.cymru.
It was set up by Bangor university looking at the view that Wales barely has its own media. Welsh radio stations were being taken over by UK based companies. BBC Wales' own news and current affairs output had been cut. The aim was to provide an English language, Welsh national news service based in Wales, run by people in Wales. There are Welsh language news services in Wales, but not English. Not even the Western Mail can be classed as a Welsh national news service.
I visit Scotland usually twice a year. I love the fact that Scotland has several of its own national newspapers. Most of the British national papers have Scottish varients, such as the Scottish Sun, Scottish Daily Mail etc. BBC Scotland has much more output than BBC Wales. STV (Scottish ITV) broadcasts more local programming than we get from ITV Wales. We get what London sends us.
I quite like nation.cymru and it's certainly not a mouthpiece for Welsh Labour government - if anything it is often critical of this Welsh government. According to their website they are apolitical, bar rejecting far-right politics.
This is their mission statement: We have never had a national English-language news service. The Western Mail and Daily Post are regional news services, while BBC Wales is a regional arm of a British corporation.
The Welsh media has deteriorated even further in the last few years. What remains of Wales’ regional, commercial English-language press is in sad decline.
The print circulation of our English-language papers continues to dwindle, and websites struggle to produce revenue.
As Welsh newspapers are bought by larger companies, editorial decisions are increasingly being made outside of Wales’ borders, with less and less relevance to Wales.
It is no surprise therefore that surveys have consistently shown that the people of Wales do not know what is going on in their country.
Many people do not understand what powers our parliament in Cardiff has or what can be done with them.
Meanwhile, the tectonic plates of the United Kingdom are shifting. Post-Brexit, Wales faces a turbulent economic and political future. Our nation’s very existence could be at stake.
Wales has to decide where its future lies within this new order, and Nation.Cymru can be a platform for that discussion – free from the commercial pressures that drive other newspapers and websites.
We want to include everyone in that discussion. We want to include YOU.
Re: Anyone watched GB News?
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Eric the Half a Bee
Far from it. You've obviously not taken a moment to research nation.cymru.
It was set up by Bangor university looking at the view that Wales barely has its own media. Welsh radio stations were being taken over by UK based companies. BBC Wales' own news and current affairs output had been cut. The aim was to provide an English language, Welsh national news service based in Wales, run by people in Wales. There are Welsh language news services in Wales, but not English. Not even the Western Mail can be classed as a Welsh national news service.
I visit Scotland usually twice a year. I love the fact that Scotland has several of its own national newspapers. Most of the British national papers have Scottish varients, such as the Scottish Sun, Scottish Daily Mail etc. BBC Scotland has much more output than BBC Wales. STV (Scottish ITV) broadcasts more local programming than we get from ITV Wales. We get what London sends us.
I quite like nation.cymru and it's certainly not a mouthpiece for Welsh Labour government - if anything it is often critical of this Welsh government. According to their website they are apolitical, bar rejecting far-right politics.
This is their mission statement: We have never had a national English-language news service. The Western Mail and Daily Post are regional news services, while BBC Wales is a regional arm of a British corporation.
The Welsh media has deteriorated even further in the last few years. What remains of Wales’ regional, commercial English-language press is in sad decline.
The print circulation of our English-language papers continues to dwindle, and websites struggle to produce revenue.
As Welsh newspapers are bought by larger companies, editorial decisions are increasingly being made outside of Wales’ borders, with less and less relevance to Wales.
It is no surprise therefore that surveys have consistently shown that the people of Wales do not know what is going on in their country.
Many people do not understand what powers our parliament in Cardiff has or what can be done with them.
Meanwhile, the tectonic plates of the United Kingdom are shifting. Post-Brexit, Wales faces a turbulent economic and political future. Our nation’s very existence could be at stake.
Wales has to decide where its future lies within this new order, and Nation.Cymru can be a platform for that discussion – free from the commercial pressures that drive other newspapers and websites.
We want to include everyone in that discussion. We want to include YOU.
Thanks Eric, I was wondering whether I’d got completely the wrong end of the stick about Nation Cymru for a while.
Re: Anyone watched GB News?
Why would anyone watch "news" that you know is going to biased before even switching on?
Re: Anyone watched GB News?
Quote:
Originally Posted by
NYCBlue
Why would anyone watch "news" that you know is going to biased before even switching on?
Everyone who watches CNN or Fox
Re: Anyone watched GB News?
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Eric the Half a Bee
Far from it. You've obviously not taken a moment to research nation.cymru.
It was set up by Bangor university looking at the view that Wales barely has its own media. Welsh radio stations were being taken over by UK based companies. BBC Wales' own news and current affairs output had been cut. The aim was to provide an English language, Welsh national news service based in Wales, run by people in Wales. There are Welsh language news services in Wales, but not English. Not even the Western Mail can be classed as a Welsh national news service.
I visit Scotland usually twice a year. I love the fact that Scotland has several of its own national newspapers. Most of the British national papers have Scottish varients, such as the Scottish Sun, Scottish Daily Mail etc. BBC Scotland has much more output than BBC Wales. STV (Scottish ITV) broadcasts more local programming than we get from ITV Wales. We get what London sends us.
I quite like nation.cymru and it's certainly not a mouthpiece for Welsh Labour government - if anything it is often critical of this Welsh government. According to their website they are apolitical, bar rejecting far-right politics.
This is their mission statement: We have never had a national English-language news service. The Western Mail and Daily Post are regional news services, while BBC Wales is a regional arm of a British corporation.
The Welsh media has deteriorated even further in the last few years. What remains of Wales’ regional, commercial English-language press is in sad decline.
The print circulation of our English-language papers continues to dwindle, and websites struggle to produce revenue.
As Welsh newspapers are bought by larger companies, editorial decisions are increasingly being made outside of Wales’ borders, with less and less relevance to Wales.
It is no surprise therefore that surveys have consistently shown that the people of Wales do not know what is going on in their country.
Many people do not understand what powers our parliament in Cardiff has or what can be done with them.
Meanwhile, the tectonic plates of the United Kingdom are shifting. Post-Brexit, Wales faces a turbulent economic and political future. Our nation’s very existence could be at stake.
Wales has to decide where its future lies within this new order, and Nation.Cymru can be a platform for that discussion – free from the commercial pressures that drive other newspapers and websites.
We want to include everyone in that discussion. We want to include YOU.
The mission statement and what they actually do can be very different things. Imagine if boris and co had decided to throw government money at a new right leaning English news website. For Welsh government money to be funding a news website is an absolute disgrace
Re: Anyone watched GB News?
Quote:
Originally Posted by
chrisp_1927
The mission statement and what they actually do can be very different things. Imagine if boris and co had decided to throw government money at a new right leaning English news website. For Welsh government money to be funding a news website is an absolute disgrace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation.Cymru
That doesn’t seem to tie in with what you’re claiming.
Re: Anyone watched GB News?
chrisp_1927 is having a 'mare today.
Re: Anyone watched GB News?
Quote:
Originally Posted by
StraightOuttaCanton
Everyone who watches CNN or Fox
The question was "why?" not "who?".
Re: Anyone watched GB News?
Re: Anyone watched GB News?
Re: Anyone watched GB News?
Quote:
Originally Posted by
StraightOuttaCanton
I sometimes read your posts and wonder to myself… “is he just talking to himself?”…
I’m pretty sure I spout some inane drivel on here as well, but by now we all know that you’re a Germanophile, a world traveller who likes things off the beaten track and a supreme linguist.
Having said that I do read a fair bit of what you post, although wanting to understand German humour is stretching it ��
I probably do talk to myself much of the time and it's probably time I pared it back. Thanks.
Re: Anyone watched GB News?
Quote:
Originally Posted by
lardy
These days, if you say you like German humour they'll throw you in jail.
Very good!
Re: Anyone watched GB News?
Re: Anyone watched GB News?
I flicked it on for 10 minutes the other day I can’t say it was any worse than any other news channel
Re: Anyone watched GB News?
Quote:
Originally Posted by
WJ99mobile
I flicked it on for 10 minutes the other day I can’t say it was any worse than any other news channel
I should at least have a look at it to see if it's as one eyed as it's portrayed I suppose - you can access it through can't you?
Re: Anyone watched GB News?
Quote:
Originally Posted by
the other bob wilson
I should at least have a look at it to see if it's as one eyed as it's portrayed I suppose - you can access it through can't you?
You can watch on the web, phone and various tv channels.
Not sure what the teeth gnashing is all about it’s just a channel doing what social media has been doing for a decade
Re: Anyone watched GB News?
Re: Anyone watched GB News?
Re: Anyone watched GB News?
Quote:
Originally Posted by
the other bob wilson
Think he’ll do OK
Obvious choice but not sure he can stop the rot