Facebook to Handout Millions to Prop Up British Mainstream Media Outlets
Facebook has struck a deal that will see the mainstream media in Britain rake in millions, as it again prioritises the corporate press.

Facebook has struck a deal that will see the mainstream media in Britain rake in millions, as it again prioritises the corporate press.
UK PM Boris Johnson is not a conservative, but he certainly is a blithering idiot.
Kay Burley, a top television news anchor, has been suspended from Sky News for six months after flouting lockdown rules during her 60th birthday party. Reports claim she will continue to receive full pay.
Nigel Farage has criticised the UK’s establishment media for its breathless coverage of leftist narratives which are not only irrelevant to the British experience but infer that “Britain is a hotbed of racism”.
Hillary Clinton said that violent looters and rioters are a “tiny, tiny minority” of the Black Lives Matter movement and accused President Trump of trying to “hijack Christianity” in a soft-ball interview with British news broadcaster Kay Burley.
Medical experts wanted to recommend travel bans for nations to help stop the spread of the Chinese coronavirus in the early days of the pandemic. World Health Organization (WHO) bureaucrats stopped them from making those recommendations.
Sky News anchor Adam Boulton is under fire for asking whether Vice President Mike Pence is “the right sort of person” to lead anti-coronavirus efforts in the United States because he is a Christian and the pandemic is a “scientific problem”.
Children of Islamic State fighters and their brides in Syrian holding camps may represent a grave threat to the West, with one telling a British reporter: “We will slaughter you.”
Sky News has been mocked mercilessly for a report on the threat which Brexit supposedly poses to the “key childcare option” of importing foreign au pairs to look after children.
Headlined ‘Our carbon debt’, the short video tries to reposition the Industrial Revolution – the single greatest leap in living standards in the history of the world – as a terrible mistake for which we should now make amends.
Boris Johnson is looking more and more like Britain’s next prime minister. This has nothing to do with the uncharacteristically stiff, dreary, workmanlike campaign launch speech he gave this morning – and everything to do with how he handled the questions afterwards.
Arch-remainer Tony Blair has leapt on the decisive victory of the Brexit Party in Sunday’s European Union election count as a clear sign that the United Kingdom needs a second referendum and to vote to cancel Brexit, keeping the country in the EU.
Sky News political anchor Adam Boulton has accused the Brexit Party’s ambition to be included in negotiations with the European Union as being “close to authoritarian fascism”.
Former Conservative Party leader and Brexiteer Iain Duncan Smith MP condemned “arrogant” Parliament for abusing the sovereignty lent to it by the British people to ram through legislation aimed at stopping Brexit.
Arron Banks has faced down mainstream media pundits at the BBC and Sky News over allegations he was a conduit for Russian money during the EU referendum.
Tommy Robinson have vowed to sue Sky News after releasing footage which he claims proves that recent headlines about him not caring if he incites fear of Muslims are based on misquotes and deceptive editing.
Nigel Farage has slammed Sky News anchor Kay Burley’s “unfair, personal, and cruel” comparison of Falklands War hero Simon Weston’s facial burns to a burqa, which prompted over 20,000 people to sign a petition demanding she apologise or resign.
The mainstream media has been embarrassed by a data poll which shows a large majority of the British public do not believe criticising the burqa is “racist” and would support banning the garment
Sky News anchor Kay Burley has drawn heavy criticism after comparing the barrier the Islamic burqa puts between wearers and society at large to the facial burns of a famous war hero.
If there’s one politician Donald Trump absolutely has to meet on his trip to the UK this summer, it’s Conservative backbench MP Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Sky’s political correspondent Lewis Goodall — the man behind the false insertion of the word “white” into Enoch Powell’s infamous Birmingham Speech — has revealed the news organisation found Britons as well as ethnic minorities think Powell was not a
LONDON (AP) — U.S. media giant Comcast offered Wednesday to buy British broadcaster Sky Plc for 22 billion pounds ($30 billion), topping a controversial bid from Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox.
Sky News has broadcast a package on Enoch Powell’s infamous Birmingham Speech, including a clip of a young girl of ethnic minority background misquoting the speech by adding the word “white” in. The clip which aired on the 50th anniversary
Counter-extremism campaigner Maajid Nawaz has spoken of his amazement and shame at the “drag” in institutions including the police, the BBC, and politics in responding to the Telford child sexual exploitation scandal, accusing those at the top of society of being paralysed by fear of accusations of racism.
LONDON (AP) — 21st Century Fox has offered to insulate Sky’s news operations from the influence of Rupert Murdoch and his family to win approval of its bid to take over the London-based pay TV company.
A leading economics professor has rebuked the establishment media reporting on a “secret government analysis”, stating that the true “cost of hard Brexit” would be within the margin of error in terms of economic growth rates. Prof. Tony Thirlwall —
Sky News has published selected, leaked figures from one part of a UK government analysis into post-Brexit trade, in another attempt to scare Britons away from leaving the European Union. The leaks comes as the government analysis is distributed to Members
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton launched into scathing tirade against Sky News’s Kay Burley this afternoon, describing her as a “munchkin in the media” and humiliating her for opining on President Trump’s threats to cancel Obama’s
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has said Twenty-First Century Fox’s proposed takeover of Sky is “not in the public interest” and could block the acquisition.
Failed UK Independence Party leadership candidate Suzanne Evans has appeared on the BBC trashing former leader Nigel Farage’s legacy, perhaps revealing herself as Sky News’ “anonymous” source on a story published hours before.