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GB News Spin Room @gbnews.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

GB News reportedly have 12,000 members paying £5, £10 or £20 a month That would put yearly subscriber revenue somewhere between £720k and £2.9m Likely much closer to £1m Per FT

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GB News Spin Room @gbnews.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

£350k a year GB News star Jacob Rees-Mogg is up for the chop Angelos Frangopoulos: “We’re probably going to have to have some conversations” Per FT

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GB News Spin Room @gbnews.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

A former employee at GB News tells me: “a lot of staff do not like the content that GB News spews” They add: “We worked hard to have a career in the media and we have families to feed and we have bills to pay and when we lose our jobs it affects us massively”

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GB News Spin Room @gbnews.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

In today’s Ofcom Broadcast Bulletin, the regulator summarily dismissed four investigations into GB News content The investigations pertained to GBN’s ‘Don’t Kill Cash’ campaign In Dec, one similar investigation was upheld on rules 5.4 & 5.5 - impartiality on matters of political controversy 🧵

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GB News Spin Room @gbnews.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

Spin Room learns that GB News are now making compulsory redundancies One affected individual told me “they are disorganised, changing their minds every day, at odds with each other and it was just a mess” 🧵

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GB News Spin Room @gbnews.bsky.social · 23/08/2024

Desperate times for GB News, as the channel launches yet another competition, in a bid to drum up revenue The channel, which is currently losing £80 every minute of the day, is offering a discount for multiple entries It’s top 14 entry package for £12 would keep the channel on air for just 9sec

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GB News Spin Room @gbnews.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

Blinkered Reform UK supporter and activist Paul Durant appeared on GB News wearing a t-shirt that read “Save Our Children” - a line used by the far-right, to promote his now 18th day of hunger strike over immigration policy

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GB News Spin Room @gbnews.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

Despite employing a US correspondent, GB News coverage of the DNC convention in Chicago only extends as far as their reporter’s Washington DC condo - a different time zone and a 2hr flight away

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GB News Spin Room @gbnews.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

Butlin’s latest initiative to keep wayward later life males suitably ill-informed and docile launches

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GB News Spin Room @gbnews.bsky.social · 19/08/2024

The GB News crew are shi*ting into their hands and clapping for attention with this one 🤣

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GB News Spin Room @gbnews.bsky.social · 19/08/2024

GB News ‘political’ commentator Jess Gill leaps to the defence of misogynistic men, inspired by the likes of Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson Women need to stop excusing bad men

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GB News Spin Room @gbnews.bsky.social · 19/08/2024

Ofcom have today announced they will not be investigating GB News after self-identifying political commentator Emma Woolf described the r*pe of a 12 year old girl by a 19 year old man as an “inappropriate holiday romance” 288 complaints binned, along with dozens of others

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GB News Spin Room @gbnews.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

Former News of the World editor Neil Wallis claimed on GB News “the average pay of a junior doctor is in the eighty odd thousand” Fact check: according to NHS data, the average junior doctor salary is £45k

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GB News Spin Room @gbnews.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

GB News say they have someone in Dover monitoring channel crossings ‘day in, day out’ The same company that just made north of 40 people, approx 15% of their workforce, redundant GBN appear unaware that the data they’re collecting is in fact published at regular intervals online 🤦‍♂️

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GB News Spin Room @gbnews.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

GB News rent-a-gob says the government will “immediately arrest people and sentence them at some point” ‘People’ being Reform UK voters and those against so-called ‘mass uncontrolled immigration’ Proper headbanger 🤣

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GB News Spin Room @gbnews.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

Times are hard at GB News. The financially troubled company are flogging their ‘rarely-used’ e-cargo bike, yours for a snip at £5,450. That’s enough to run the channel for just *45 minutes* Every little helps 🤷‍♂️

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GB News Spin Room @gbnews.bsky.social · 24/07/2023

Hello! The GB News Spin Room is now on Blue Sky. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

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