Why the corporate boycott of GB News is bad news for the Church

Jun 19, 2021 by

by David Robertson, Christian Today:

I confess. I did it. I switched on. I watched. Sure, there were some things I didn’t like about it (e.g. the dark background), but I found it quite addictive.I’m talking about GB News, the latest news channel in the UK (and worldwide on the internet) which is threatening to rival the BBC, ITV and Sky.

I don’t even have the excuse of not knowing what it was about – unlike some companies who apparently advertised on GB News without knowing what they were doing. Although perhaps I was ignorant – after all, one of these companies tells us that the prime purpose of GB News is ‘to communicate hatred’.

What is going on? Have the Nazi party reincarnated as a British media show? Why is this happening? What can the Church learn from it?

Stop Funding Hate (SFH), the most hateful of all the ‘anti-hate’ groups, is pressurising corporations and businesses not to advertise on GB News. In fact, they have been trying to do this before a word was even broadcast. The Twitter mob are in full force – although to be fair, it appears that the automatons who run the corporations are now so spineless that even one tweet constitutes ‘public pressure’ – especially if it even hints that they might be blaspheming against any of the Woke doctrines that the corporations are supposed to sign up to. So far Kopparberg (cider), Grolsch (Dutch beer), Nivea, and IKEA are amongst the companies who have withdrawn adverts and publicly repented for their sin.

[…] This is about way more than one media news channel. It’s about the negation of the Christian values which have made our societies the most prosperous and free the world has yet seen. It’s about the attempt to silence those who don’t buy into the current doctrines that the Harvard, Yale, and Oxford elites – who train the world’s CEOs and corporate HR and publicity departments – seek to impose upon all of us.

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