"Our journalists will be drawn from many diverse backgrounds – we will not do ‘group think’. Part of the editorial charter of GB News.
Dandy, unless, of course there's a journalist who thinks 'taking a knee' on air is a good idea. Thus departed weekend presenter and weekday stand-in Guto Harri, apparently dismissed with a Tweet "On Tuesday a contributing presenter took the knee live on air and this was an unacceptable breach of our standards."
Later it seemed he might have been suspended. Behind the scenes the row clearly rumbled on, and today Director of Programmes of GB News John McAndrew has resigned - or been fired by the Aussie-from-Sky Angelos Frangopoulos. It's widely believed "senior executive producer" Gill Penlington, with experience from Sky, the BBC and CNN, left earlier this week - her Linkedin profile ends her time with GB News as "July 2021".
Company chair and iconic presenter Andrew Neil is in the South of France; Alistair Stewart is off air with a broken hip, after being knocked over by a horse. Let's hope he didn't have to take a knee to get up.
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