{"id":226646,"date":"2025-06-30T12:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T12:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/226646\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T12:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T12:55:09","slug":"britains-fox-news-tries-to-crack-america-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/226646\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Britain\u2019s Fox News\u2019 tries to crack America \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Booker added: \u201cWhile others scale back on live free coverage, GB News is investing in our content. Our new Washington investment, our expanded programming, and our brilliant on-the-ground team will ensure we\u2019re not just reporting on the story but that we\u2019re right at the heart of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since launching with a host of technical problems and high-profile staff churn in 2021, GB News has pushed through teething troubles<\/a> to become a fixture of British political broadcasting. It hired veteran political journalist Christopher Hope as political editor in 2023, and regularly broadcasts interviews with leading British government ministers.<\/p>\n

Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain\u2019s insurgent Reform UK party, also has his own show on the channel.<\/p>\n

GB News\u2019 rise has not been without controversy, and it has at times butted heads with Britain\u2019s broadcast watchdog Ofcom.<\/p>\n

It won<\/a> a key legal case against the regulator earlier this year after Ofcom took issue with shows hosted by politicians.<\/p>\n

It was also fined by Ofcom in 2024 after an interview with then-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was deemed to have given the Conservative Leader an \u201cuncontested platform\u201d to promote his election polices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Booker added: \u201cWhile others scale back on live free coverage, GB News is investing in our content. Our…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[1213,748,1193,2001,30,393,4884,1197,2451,2441,384,1144,48,712,16,15,49,1764,1202],"class_list":{"0":"post-226646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-americas","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-british-politics","13":"tag-communications","14":"tag-courts","15":"tag-england","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-investment","18":"tag-jacob-rees-mogg","19":"tag-markets","20":"tag-nigel-farage","21":"tag-northern-ireland","22":"tag-rights","23":"tag-scotland","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-wales","28":"tag-westminster-bubble"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114772425094946145","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}