Britain has a brand new news channel. GB News promises to cover the stories that really matter to British people and not be “another echo chamber for the metropolitan mindset.” The channel’s main investors include US Discovery and a Dubai-based investment fund. Some observers are already calling it Britain’s answer to Fox News. But just 10 days in and numerous technical slip-ups and on-air mishaps have been attracting more attention than the station’s political agenda. The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports.
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