Some compulsory weekend viewing from GB News. The channel invited veteran broadcaster Michael Crick onto Neil Oliver’s show yesterday to discuss media censorship. So it was to some embarrassment then that as Crick began listing the various right-wing politicians employed there that Oliver was, er, forced to go to a break and cut the discussion off mid-flow. The full exchange unfolded as follows:
Neil Oliver: “Now you talk about being broadly wary of censorship. Ok, now on this channel, on GB News, in the company of Michelle Dewberry, you said that you thought GB News ought to be shut down…”
Michael Crick: “Because you’re biased, you’re right wing. I mean you do things like you have, you’re basically – I mean I’ve been fighting bias in television for a very long time. And it’s one of the reasons I left Channel 4 News because I thought it was left wing biased. And I think Ofcom, who are one of the weakest institutions on the planet, should get a grip on you lot.
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