This week I've noted three separate, but perhaps-connected-behind-the-scenes, pieces of 'influence' positioning the BBC as hopelessly woke and GB News as some sort of real journalistic enterprise....
1: Arizona-born Dubai-based faith-driven Legatum partner Mark Stoleson, backer of GB News, interviewed on The Telegraph's Off Script Podcast, backer of GB News. “The way that [the media] landscape is measured by some is this thing called the Overton Window. We don’t just try to guess, we actually have people that are looking at that full time using computers to analyse every spoken word on the BBC, on Sky, on ITV, just to try to assess, is the GB News conversation changing the broader national conversation ? We’ve got the data to support that, yes.”
2: The revelation that Sir Paul Marshall, another GB News backer, had shapeshifted on Twitter/X, and 'liked' a number of Tweets concerned about the impact of Muslims across Europe.
3: The appearance of Public First founder James Frayne at a Lords committee looking at trust in the media, quoting an unpublished survey, apparently conducted off his own bat, saying working class Brexit supporting viewers were deserting the BBC for GB News and Talk TV. Mr Frayne has worked previously with Michael Gove, Dominic Cummings and The Tax-Payers Alliance; he's married to Rachel Wolf, co-writer of Boris Johnson's manifesto for the 2019 election; he's a member of the Centre for Policy Studies based in 55 Tufton Street. Public First is in 11 Tufton Street, above clerical garb suppliers Wippells.
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