Adverts on GBNews

[Woody]

I wonder when GBNews will get some new adverts? I'm not only getting fed
up with the limited selection, but I can't find any more continuity
errors in them!

I know, let's have a competition to see how many viewers on here have
spotted?

[Brian Gaff]

Not me gov, but generally adverts seem to be going through a phase where the
brand is never mentioned on the sound, thus dpriving all blind viewers any
knowledge of what the companies are attempting to sell. Considering the
aging demographic and increase in blindness, this would seem to be rather
silly while people like Virgin, Proctor and Gamble and Waitrose etc have an
AD track, this is only any good if its switched on!

Brian

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[williamwright]

On 20/07/2022 10:38, Brian Gaff wrote:
> Not me gov, but generally adverts seem to be going through a phase where the
> brand is never mentioned on the sound, thus dpriving all blind viewers any
> knowledge of what the companies are attempting to sell. Considering the
> aging demographic and increase in blindness, this would seem to be rather
> silly while people like Virgin, Proctor and Gamble and Waitrose etc have an
> AD track, this is only any good if its switched on!

I don't know if the ads are regionalised, but if so it's a bit
approximate because the adverts we get in Emley Moor Land are mostly
Welsh. Various weird little Welsh businesses. There's one for a firm
that buys old jewellery and the guy has a ridiculous sing-song
accent.Does anyone know why?

Bill

[Woody]

Well, for a start Bill, is it a man or a woman both in sound and in
picture? Have you noticed how the bag carried by the 'customer' keeps
changing arms, and the clearly mouthed "Wow!" and "Oh my god"?

Then:
The gin company advert starts with the lower half of a couple walking on
Tenby beach carrying a lantern (why?) and a hamper; next shot closer in
- no lantern or hamper. Why would anyone drinking socially/domestically
carry and use a spirit measure? First shot of gin going into beaker -
sprig of Rosemary already in it, then fruit put into beakers and no
Rosemary, then next shot both beakers have Rosemary. Eh?

And last but not least the couple walking up to Old John (a folly in
Bradgate Park, Leicestershire - went there often as a child) where both
are carrying bags over their 'outer' shoulders so they can hold hands.
Several shots of this format then suddenly both have got their bags over
both shoulders but still holding hands.

And so it goes on.......

[JNugent]

Yes, lots of adverts for those Welsh (local) businesses in the south
east, too.

I assume that the advert rate card has such low prices that businesses
are paying no more for national coverage than they might expect to pay
for local coverage (even if it were available).

[williamwright]

Blimey! Well done! TBH I have GB News on when I'm in the workshop, so
although I have it on the telly I rarely look at the picture.

Bill

[Adrian Caspersz]

On 19/07/2022 15:35, Woody wrote:
> I wonder when GBNews will get some new adverts? I'm not only getting fed
> up with the limited selection, but I can't find any more continuity
> errors in them!

GBNews is struggling to find advertisers that are keen to support the
work that they do. Must a be difficult PR thing for them?

--
Adrian C

[John Ainsley]

Getting very bored with the repetitiveness and Welshness adverts on GBN. I live in the NE England and am some distance from Llanelli, Cardiff and Swansea which I think are the locations I would have to travel to for exchanging gold.

[R. Mark Clayton]

The lengths they will go to just to get another viewer - no chance.
Anyway who wants to see adverts for nazi memorabilia and military training camps in Wyoming?

[JNugent]

On 19/02/2023 08:50 am, John Ainsley wrote:

> On Friday, 22 July 2022 at 20:07:10 UTC+1, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
>> On 19/07/2022 15:35, Woody wrote:

>>> I wonder when GBNews will get some new adverts? I'm not only getting fed
>>> up with the limited selection, but I can't find any more continuity
>>> errors in them!

>> GBNews is struggling to find advertisers that are keen to support the
>> work that they do. Must a be difficult PR thing for them?

> Getting very bored with the repetitiveness and Welshness adverts on GBN. I live in the NE England and am some distance from Llanelli, Cardiff and Swansea which I think are the locations I would have to travel to for exchanging gold.

Be thankful that someone is paying for the adverts!

[Mark Carver]

It'll be Brinks Mat gold of course.

[Brian Gregory]

What work are they claiming they do?
They seem to be a pretty pathetic bunch of spoilt tory twits.

--
Brian Gregory (in England).

[Jeff Gaines]

On 20/02/2023 in message <k5g7oc...@mid.individual.net> Brian Gregory
wrote:

>>GBNews is struggling to find advertisers that are keen to support the
>>work that they do. Must a be difficult PR thing for them?
>>
>
>What work are they claiming they do?
>They seem to be a pretty pathetic bunch of spoilt tory twits.

They are trying to bring some balance in to the news to counter the BBC's
left wing bias. Quite interesting to watch, although their presenters seem
incapable of keeping control over their mini debates. They pride
themselves in not silencing anybody which allow the socialists who appear
just to barf socialist propaganda and talk over everybody.

--
Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
Here we go it's getting close, now it's just who wants it most.

[Java Jive]

On 20/02/2023 08:25, Jeff Gaines wrote:
>
> On 20/02/2023 in message <k5g7oc...@mid.individual.net> Brian
> Gregory wrote:
>>

>> [Quoting broken: Adrian Caspersz wrote:]

>>>
>>> GBNews is struggling to find advertisers that are keen to support the
>>> work that they do. Must a be difficult PR thing for them?
>>
>> What work are they claiming they do?
>> They seem to be a pretty pathetic bunch of spoilt tory twits.
>
> They are trying to bring some balance in to the news to counter the
> BBC's left wing bias.

The BBC doesn't have a left-wing bias to need countering. What you're
really saying is that GBNews has a right-wing bias, well, we all knew
that already.

For a delightful description of how a right-wing biased media
organisation can tie itself completely in knots by slavishly following
ratings rather than the truth, you could do worse than to read the
reports coming out of the US court case taken by voting machine
manufacturers Dominion against Fox News. Countless emails have come to
light showing that no-one of any importance at Fox News gave any
credence to allegations that Dominion voting machines used during the
last presidential election had been programmed to favour Biden, yet they
kept putting such conspiracy theorists on air, apparently because they
were frightened of losing their brain-washed[*] audience to other
equally dishonest right-wing news channels!

The story has so many elements of high farce that, if it wasn't so
serious in its potential implications, it would otherwise be very funny:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-fox-news-dominion-voting-lawsuit-b2285051.html

* BTW, that's 'brain-washed' as in 'people like you'.

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[JNugent]

On 20/02/2023 12:48 pm, Java Jive wrote:

[ ... ]

> The BBC doesn't have a left-wing bias...
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That's a good 'un!

[Jeff Gaines]

On 20/02/2023 in message <tsvq65$p2he$1...@dont-email.me> Java Jive wrote:

>On 20/02/2023 08:25, Jeff Gaines wrote:
>>
>>On 20/02/2023 in message <k5g7oc...@mid.individual.net> Brian Gregory
>>wrote:
>>>
>>>[Quoting broken: Adrian Caspersz wrote:]
>>>>
>>>>GBNews is struggling to find advertisers that are keen to support the
>>>>work that they do. Must a be difficult PR thing for them?
>>>
>>>What work are they claiming they do?
>>>They seem to be a pretty pathetic bunch of spoilt tory twits.
>>
>>They are trying to bring some balance in to the news to counter the BBC's
>>left wing bias.
>
>The BBC doesn't have a left-wing bias to need countering. What you're
>really saying is that GBNews has a right-wing bias, well, we all knew that
>already.

I note your opinion and, while you are entitled to hold it of course, I
disagree with it entirely.

--
Jeff Gaines Dorset UK

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists
or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.

[Java Jive]

On 20/02/2023 15:38, Bob Latham wrote:
>
> In article <tsvq65$p2he$1...@dont-email.me>,

> Java Jive <ja...@evij.com.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> On 20/02/2023 08:25, Jeff Gaines wrote:
>>>
>>> On 20/02/2023 in message <k5g7oc...@mid.individual.net> Brian
>>> Gregory wrote:
>>>>
>>>> What work are they claiming they do? They seem to be a pretty
>>>> pathetic bunch of spoilt tory twits.
>

> Ah the left, go straight to insults as always. Anyone who doesn't
> hold their POV has to be abused with name calling.

It seemed like a fairish description to me, from what little of its
output that I've actually seen.

>>> They are trying to bring some balance in to the news to counter
>>> the BBC's left wing bias.
>
>> The BBC doesn't have a left-wing bias to need countering.
>

> Lol.
>
> The BBC hasn't done news as such for at least a decade, many say much
> longer.

FALSE! This is the BBC news site:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news

> [Bigoted prejudice stated as if it were fact snipped] >
> Welcome to dystopia.

You'd know all about that, wouldn't you!

> Bob.

The liar who keeps claiming to have plonked me is shown to be lying again.

[Java Jive]

On 20/02/2023 15:03, Jeff Gaines wrote:
> On 20/02/2023 in message <tsvq65$p2he$1...@dont-email.me> Java Jive wrote:
>
>> On 20/02/2023 08:25, Jeff Gaines wrote:
>>>
>>> On 20/02/2023 in message <k5g7oc...@mid.individual.net> Brian
>>> Gregory wrote:
>>>>
>>>> [Quoting broken: Adrian Caspersz wrote:]
>>>>>
>>>>> GBNews is struggling to find advertisers that are keen to support
>>>>> the work that they do. Must a be difficult PR thing for them?
>>>>
>>>> What work are they claiming they do?
>>>> They seem to be a pretty pathetic bunch of spoilt tory twits.
>>>
>>> They are trying to bring some balance in to the news to counter the
>>> BBC's left wing bias.
>>
>> The BBC doesn't have a left-wing bias to need countering.  What you're
>> really saying is that GBNews has a right-wing bias, well, we all knew
>> that already.
>
> I note your opinion and, while you are entitled to hold it of course, I
> disagree with it entirely.

I note that you appear to have missed the point of my link completely,
quite possibly not even bothering to read it, so, perhaps
unsurprisingly, I'll have to spell it out to you ...

The income of the BBC and the other three main UK TV channels depends on
wider sources than advertising during news broadcasting, so there is no
commercial need for any of them to present news to please a particular
audience, and this tends to allow them to be more independent and
neutral than organisations such as Fox News, GB News, or Talk Radio that
target, and therefore become dependent on feeding, the prejudices of a
particular audience. Fox News *OUGHT* not to appear in the above list,
because it is part of one of the biggest cable networks in the US, which
should allow it to be independent of the need to slavishly follow
ratings, but it has had such a long history of misinformation arising
from its right-wing bias that apparently now, as the court case reports
are revealing, it feels compelled to keep feeding those prejudices which
it itself has played a such a large part in inciting, even to the point
of allowing itself, cynically and unjustifiably without a shred of
actual evidence as their own staff have themselves acknowledged, in
effect to sow widespread mistrust in the entire US electoral system.

Those are the sorts of problems created when news organisations are
allowed to misrepresent basic facts and/or lie to the public. As the
old-fashioned children's Cautionary Tale rhyme goes:

"Oh what a dreadful web we weave
When first we practise to deceive!"

[Jeff Gaines]

On 20/02/2023 in message <tt0a3r$qnmh$1...@dont-email.me> Java Jive wrote:

>On 20/02/2023 15:03, Jeff Gaines wrote:
>>On 20/02/2023 in message <tsvq65$p2he$1...@dont-email.me> Java Jive wrote:
>>
>>>On 20/02/2023 08:25, Jeff Gaines wrote:
>>>>
>>>>On 20/02/2023 in message <k5g7oc...@mid.individual.net> Brian
>>>>Gregory wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>[Quoting broken: Adrian Caspersz wrote:]
>>>>>>
>>>>>>GBNews is struggling to find advertisers that are keen to support the
>>>>>>work that they do. Must a be difficult PR thing for them?
>>>>>
>>>>>What work are they claiming they do?
>>>>>They seem to be a pretty pathetic bunch of spoilt tory twits.
>>>>
>>>>They are trying to bring some balance in to the news to counter the
>>>>BBC's left wing bias.
>>>
>>>The BBC doesn't have a left-wing bias to need countering.  What you're
>>>really saying is that GBNews has a right-wing bias, well, we all knew
>>>that already.
>>
>>I note your opinion and, while you are entitled to hold it of course, I
>>disagree with it entirely.
>
>I note that you appear to have missed the point of my link completely,
>quite possibly not even bothering to read it, so, perhaps unsurprisingly,
>I'll have to spell it out to you ...

I don't think so, you expressed an opinion and I disagree with it but it's
your choice.

[Owen Rees]

Java Jive <ja...@evij.com.invalid> wrote:
…
> … As the

> old-fashioned children's Cautionary Tale rhyme goes:
>
> "Oh what a dreadful web we weave
> When first we practise to deceive!"

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave,/ When first we practise to deceive!" From
Marmion by Sir Walter Scott. A historical romance in verse, not a
children’s tale.

[Java Jive]

Fair enough, I was taught it in school out of that context. Curiously,
quite by chance, Scott never crossed my path during my childhood, and,
despite having read many such historical adventures, etc, somehow I've
never got around to reading any of his!

Thanks for the correction.

[JNugent]

On 20/02/2023 05:19 pm, Java Jive wrote:

> As the old-fashioned children's Cautionary Tale rhyme goes:

Are you sure?

The quote comes from Scott’s "Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field" (1808).

Nothing to do with "cautionary tales", whether by Belloc or anyone else.

You are really funny. I know you don't mean to be, but you are.

> "Oh what a dreadful web we weave
> When first we practise to deceive!"

Oh... and it's "tangled", not "dreadful".

And "practice", "not "practise".

[JNugent]

+1.

[Norman Wells]

Well, it shouldn't be. The verb is 'practise'; 'practice' is a noun.

And if Walter Scott used the latter when he should have used the former
he's not as good as he thinks he is and ought to be ashamed of himself.

[Roderick Stewart]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:51:16 +0000, JNugent <jennin...@mail.com>
wrote:

"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing..."

as many people would quote it.

Rod.