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The right-wing newspapers have orchestrated the entire system so that from unpaid internship onwards it's drilled into you that there's zero difference between working for good newspapers and bad newspapers, idiot. TV culture on the other hand is still dominated in the UK by BBC-types who vaguely imagine themselves to be furthering the entire medium as an example to the world, and especially those horrible yanks. Not surprised that GB News struggling to pick up the cream of the crop, at least at first.
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Ms Adequate posted:What does surprise me is that their production values are just so bad. Studio lighting is awful. Sound is echoey. Graphic design is laughable. I know it's a grift but you'd think they could have spent a modest amount of money on the people needed for production values that at least match your average YouTuber, because I can name any number of channels from people who discuss politics, to ASMR, to Let's Players, to folks that do sciencey stuff like Kurgesagt or history channels from the Mongolian Horde to Super Mario Bros speedruns that do a far far better job. Yeah, this is a really good point, and just bizarre given they're consciously aping Fox News and explicitly tacking towards comment/controversy rather than reporting. Being splashy and eye catching is a big part of that, but this looks like a local news channel
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Jun 16, 2021 09:41
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It's also weird they've gone for the "All the stars are here!" method of drawing viewers as if Internet chud No124 and that guy who does the walk around Scotland show will be more successful than the Fox news method of hiring the prettiest blond woman with the biggest boobs.
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Jun 16, 2021 09:48
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Gort posted:You looking at different numbers to me? Same numbers but with the 7 day average box unticked. Yes, the average is still rising but if you look at the individual days from 09 - 15 June, it has in fact levelled off. Jun 09 - 7,540 Jun 10 - 7,393 Jun 11 - 8,125 Jun 12 - 7,738 Jun 13 - 7,490 Jun 14 - 7,742 Jun 15 - 7,673 If it continues like that, we'll see the 7 day average flatten out too.
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Jun 16, 2021 09:53
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I reckon this is what happens when your entire staff is fourth generation failsons and internet contrarians.
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Jun 16, 2021 09:56
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Pistol_Pete posted:Same numbers but with the 7 day average box unticked. Yes, the average is still rising but if you look at the individual days from 09 - 15 June, it has in fact levelled off. There's significant reporting lag in those numbers - in particular PCR tests take 3-5 days to show up in the stats - and a level-ish last 7 days almost certainly actually represents a considerable increase over those 7 days.
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Jun 16, 2021 09:58
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goddamnedtwisto posted:... it's also possible that without quite such aggressive triage that people are being admitted this time round that would have been told to go home and take their chances before My feeling is it's this: I remember during the bad times, the official advice was pretty much: "Stay at home and look after yourself; don't show up at hospital unless you're actually struggling to keep breathing." I guess now hospitals are more able to admit patients for precautionary reasons rather than restricting beds for the most obviously extremely ill people.
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Jun 16, 2021 10:00
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Pistol_Pete posted:Same numbers but with the 7 day average box unticked. Yes, the average is still rising but if you look at the individual days from 09 - 15 June, it has in fact levelled off. I'm no statistician but I don't think you should be looking at individual days. If I remember right, weekends always saw depressed numbers comparatively, so the 7 day average is a much more reliable number to follow.
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Jun 16, 2021 10:12
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Guavanaut posted:I'm trying to clear the image of Andrew Neil ASMR Andrew Neil WikiFeet Andrew Neil Cancelled by Woke Mob While Stuck In Dryer
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Jun 16, 2021 10:33
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IllusionistTrixie posted:Not to defend brands, but the few I've seen respond to this basically said that they pre-pay for X amount of ad hours and it just goes on various content networks. Given GB news is brand new, it just got generic ads from companies, but they are now pulling them specifically. It seems sincere enough, and the last thing any marketing department wants is to be viewed as "controversial" in their home land. That's kinda how the ad tech works now. There's opportunity to bulk buy and negotiate "inventory" (think air time) but someone's channel or stream might just be part of a giant cluster of other channels that your ad gets shown on. Thats a pretty simplified explanation of it, but I might say I wanna show my ad to "folk aged 50 and over who like newsand politics" because I happen to know they're the type of customer who likes buying my stuff. Systems kinda know who these folks are (based on your browsing/viewing habits) and you get clustered into that audience and shown the same ad. Problem is that you might then go and watch some horrible shite on a horrible place and the ad still gets shown to you. There's ways to preemptively exclude certain types of channel content, but with the amount of content channels out there it's impossible to get them all. Basically it's one of those types of task that someone will spend a full day every week scowering all of the places an ad has appeared and putting bad ones on a blacklist. You can do the opposite too though, like put a specific ad on a specific channel. It usually costs more though.
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Jun 16, 2021 10:36
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Fully Automated Rabbithole Algorithms and the inevitable end result of "NVIDIA Presents: The Skin Melanin IQ Gap REVEALED"keep punching joe posted:Andrew Neil Cancelled by Woke Mob While Stuck In Dryer  
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Jun 16, 2021 10:45
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This house has sky so I get access to a whole host of news channels. GB news are in good company when it comes to odd design choices and fallible audio quality. As for the issues they report on, however, they're fairly unique. I flick through the B list news channels from time to time because most of them are English language news from other parts of the world. They're reporting on: Erdrogan's visit to Azerbaijan in light of the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people being relocated to a breeze block built hell island. Israel flag day attacks. A protester being beheaded in Saudi Arabia. Iran's elections. Japan's parliament not dissolving until October. GB news was interviewing Saj allowing him to explain why Begum should not have citizenship or be allowed into the UK. Given that they have a niche, I think they could make it. Especially if they keep getting free advertising from any outrage or supposed embarrassments they incur. If left online spheres keep holding them up as an example of everything bad about media, it's going to help the right find them and love them.
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Jun 16, 2021 10:50
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Kin posted:That's kinda how the ad tech works now. There's opportunity to bulk buy and negotiate "inventory" (think air time) but someone's channel or stream might just be part of a giant cluster of other channels that your ad gets shown on. Yeah this is actually quite a big problem and there’s a whole industry springing up around it. I follow this person on Twitter and she’s pretty active at calling out companies that are advertising with people like Steve Bannon (without realising!) https://twitter.com/nandoodles?s=20
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Jun 16, 2021 10:51
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Snowflake Conservatives embrace woke cancel culture. https://twitter.com/paulhutcheon/status/1405099365610442755
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Jun 16, 2021 10:57
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ThomasPaine posted:But it could have been so much worse. What would we have done if covid had that dreaded long incubation/high fatality combo? What if we were looking at a third or a quarter of everyone infected just dying, like in the black death? If whole towns were depopulated and it wasn't rare for an entire family to be wiped out? Mass graves all over the shop and the sight of corpses being collected from houses an everyday occurance? So, uh, India right now....?
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Jun 16, 2021 11:14
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keep punching joe posted:Snowflake Conservatives embrace woke cancel culture. 
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Jun 16, 2021 11:15
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Okay, so they're not Tories, they're Scottish Conservative and Union Members.
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Jun 16, 2021 11:23
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feedmegin posted:So, uh, India right now....? India's having an awful time of it right now but that's mostly down to population and population density, and completely inadequate health infrastructure. It's bad but its not quite what I was describing
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Jun 16, 2021 11:29
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Guavanaut posted:Ah, the real n-word. Tories with a hard R
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Jun 16, 2021 11:31
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Too rees
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Jun 16, 2021 11:40
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keep punching joe posted:Snowflake Conservatives embrace woke cancel culture. https://twitter.com/marktewk/status/1405107051714461697?s=19
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Jun 16, 2021 11:44
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Honestly I welcome the idea that tory is a grave insult.
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Jun 16, 2021 11:45
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i for one am all for making "tory" the new "oval office" of English language swearing. with an added bonus of it not being a Schrödinger's sexist slur and all
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Jun 16, 2021 11:48
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OwlFancier posted:Honestly I welcome the idea that tory is a grave insult. Maybe they noticed that it used to be applied as a pejorative to Travellers.
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Jun 16, 2021 12:00
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https://twitter.com/shehabkhan/status/1405113969841430528?s=21 The Cum Dom is really going for Hancock
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Jun 16, 2021 12:00
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Cummings is apparently dropping whatsapp receipts now https://twitter.com/Dominic2306/status/1405112267729952770?s=20
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Jun 16, 2021 12:01
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Ziggy Tzardust posted:https://twitter.com/shehabkhan/status/1405113969841430528?s=21 It certainly reads like them both
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Jun 16, 2021 12:05
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Actually lmao at 'OK wtf do we do'
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Jun 16, 2021 12:10
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If he's talking about WhatsApp messages, doesn't that make them a matter of public interest, same as the labour leaks? I want Bojos loving WhatsApp archive.
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Jun 16, 2021 12:14
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Johnson boris.
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Jun 16, 2021 12:17
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 should be every internet advert pushed by labour hq from now until the next election
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Jun 16, 2021 12:19
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https://twitter.com/cinemashoebox/status/1405119600354803712?s=21
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Jun 16, 2021 12:36
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https://twitter.com/alexwickham/status/1405060070631690240 Anyone in the market for some cheap pre cut perspex?
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Jun 16, 2021 12:39
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quote:I can't think of anything other than taking Hancock off and putting Gove on lol, what could go wrong!!
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Jun 16, 2021 12:41
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Guavanaut posted:I'm imagining Andrew Neil ASMR now just eating a big bowl of sprouts, in his underpants
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Jun 16, 2021 12:48
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Not immediately relevant to anything (other than on-going culture war BS) but it made me laugh: https://twitter.com/LauraAmalasunta/status/1404885232168341513
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crispix posted:just eating a big bowl of
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Jun 16, 2021 13:06
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"frosty and Lee etc" has very "ricey, burnsy , cheeks and gibbo" energy
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Is anyone else having a hard time giving a gently caress about all this? Like, without Actual Consequences - which went extinct six or seven years ago, and no longer exist in the wild - this is all just petty soap opera drama court intrigue bullshit None of this is gonna make any material difference whatsoever, and I can't even find it particularly funny anymore Which is not to say I find it serious of course lol
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