A GB News viewer has perfectly summarised why she watches GB News over the BBC.
Linda from Cheshire delivered her diatribe on Wednesday during Bev Turner and Andrew Pierce’s morning news show.
When asked why she loved GB News, the pensioner said: “I love GB News, and the one thing I love about GB News is it’s not BBC News.”
Bev pressed Linda on what she meant, to which she replied: “You’re not woke. You’re not anti-Israel. You’re not anti-family. You’re anti-UK. You’re not political in any way. You have a balanced view.”
She added: “I’ve never watched BBC News since the day GB News started.”
Linda Finlow accused the BBC of being too ‘woke’ and biased
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Many GB News Members share Linda’s sentiment.
Jason, an expat living in South China, previously told GB News that he prefers the channel to mainstream media outlets such as the BBC, which he claims has long prized quantity over quality and become corrupted with left-wing bias.
GB News corrects this imbalance with impartial coverage of bread-and-butter issues that matter, he feels.
Jason added: “What I find is that GB News has a topic and invites people from both sidesto debate that topic and then leaves the viewer to draw their own conclusions,which I find is the most honest way of giving news nowadays.
“Don’t listen to other people saying it’s a far-right news outlet.It invites the people on the left and the right. It doesn’t try and tell you what you must think. You think for yourself. You can draw your conclusions.”
Do they have a point?
The BBC has long committed to achieving “due impartiality” across all its output. The broadcaster operates under a Royal Charter, which requires it to deliver impartial news and treat controversial subjects with due impartiality.
This is no easy feat in an increasingly polarised world where social media blurs the line between fact and fiction.
Indeed, it speaks to the challenge of achieving impartiality that the BBC is often accused of political bias from both the left and the right.
However, complaints that the BBC has become a left-wing organ have got louder in recent years.
A damning report into the broadcaster’s coverage of October 7 and Israel’s response strengthened this argument.
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The BBC’s coverage of October 7 and Israel’s response was accused of bias in a damning report
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The Asserson report, led by British lawyer Trevor Asserson, analysed the BBC’s coverage during a four-month period beginning October 7, 2023 – the day Hamas carried out a brutal massacre in southern Israel, killing around 1,200 people and taking another 251 into Gaza as hostages.
The report used artificial intelligence to analyse nine million words of BBC output across television, radio, online news, podcasts and social media, and identified a total of 1,553 breaches of the BBC’s editorial guidelines, which included impartiality, accuracy, editorial values and public interest.
“The findings reveal a deeply worrying pattern of bias and multiple breaches by the BBC of its own editorial guidelines on impartiality, fairness and establishing the truth,” the report said.
It claimed that the BBC repeatedly downplayed Hamas terrorism, including its seeming refusal to label the group as such, while presenting Israel as a militaristic and aggressive nation.
The report also claimed that several of its journalists in the Middle East had previously shown sympathy for Hamas and even celebrated its acts of terror on October 7.
Following the report’s publication, the BBC said it would “carefully consider” its findings, which has been submitted to Tim Davie, its director general, and Samir Shah, its chairman, as well as all its board members.
Mr Davie, who appeared before peers, said he wants to “reassure” people that “journalists are doing an outstanding job under the most ferocious pressure, the personal pressure, the lobbying, with reports from both sides”.
However, this left-leaning bias is felt across the BBC’s output.
For example, during the broadcasting of the World Cup, the BBC was criticised for being perceived as lecturing viewers on social issues rather than focusing purely on the sport.
The BBC has also committed to spending a minimum of £80million per year on diverse content that meets specific creative diversity criteria, which has also invited the woke charge.
GB News has approached the BBC for comment.