Ofcom Gives up on Cases Against GB News After Landmark Court Ruling
In its latest bulletin media regulator Ofcom has announced it is abandoning its broadcasting standards case – opened 4 March 2024 – against GB News for an episode of Farage which it claimed violated rules “requiring news and current affairs to be presented with due impartiality, and preventing politicians from acting as news presenters.” It is also abandoning similar cases against David Lammy on LBC, Jake Berry on TalkTV, and others…
This marks the eleventh case against GB News and others abandoned by the regulator since the landmark High Court ruling of last month which found Ofcom had misapplied its own rules in a ‘novel’ way through its campaign against GB. Translation: massively overstepped its mark…
CEO Angelos Frangopoulos says this is “another vindication of GB News editorial decision making.” At the same time Ofcom is launching an investigation into GB News over alleged “hateful” content on a late night show – all at the behest of Jolyon’s Good Law Project. On that one Frangopoulos says of “left-wing pressure groups” that they “shamelessly masquerade as being for the ‘good’ but their words and actions are filled with hate. It’s time to call out this anti-democratic behaviour which includes our staff being falsely accused of homophobia – nothing could be further from the truth.” Another fight on the way…
