In a surprising twist, GB News has outshone the BBC, claiming the top spot in news ratings for the fourth month running
Eamonn Holmes and Ellie Costello front the morning slot on GB News. (Image: GB NEWS)
GB News has shared a massive update that sees the BBC face yet more humiliation after yesterday, when it was accused of doctoring footage of Donald Trump. The independent news channel revealed that it has beat the publicly funded broadcaster to become the number one news channel for the fourth consecutive month.
Show contributor and royal author Camilla Tominey proudly shared the accolade in a post to her X account on Tuesday morning (November 4) as she added a bicep flexing emoji alongside the update that read: “People’s channel officially best for breaking news, beating BBC News channel and Sky News. Latest official BARB ratings reveal the People’s Channel soundly beat both the BBC News and Sky News in July, August and September. It means GB News has now cemented its position as the number one channel for breaking news.”
Yesterday, the BBC was accused of selectively editing a Trump speech to make it appear clearer that he encouraged the US Capitol attack, according to a former external adviser to the corporation.
An edition of Panorama, broadcast a week before the US election, spliced together clips of a Trump speech made on January 6, 2021. The spliced clip suggested that Trump told the crowd: “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be there with you, and we’ll fight. We fight like hell.”
The words were taken from sections of his speech almost an hour apart and excluded a part where Trump said he wanted supporters “to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard”.
BBC were accused of editing Trump’s speech in 2021. (Image: Getty)
Concerns about the alleged edit were raised in a memo by Michael Prescott, who was a former independent external adviser to the BBC’s editorial guidelines and standards committee.
Prescott said in his report: “It was completely misleading to edit the clip in the way Panorama aired it. The fact that [Trump] did not explicitly exhort supporters to go down and fight at Capitol Hill was one of the reasons there were no federal charges for incitement to riot.”
A BBC spokesperson said: “While we don’t comment on leaked documents, when the BBC receives feedback, it takes it seriously and considers it carefully. Michael Prescott is a former adviser to a board committee where differing views and opinions of our coverage are routinely discussed and debated.”
