"I don't know what Ofcom are doing, fingers in ears. How is it allowed that a serving politician goes on a news channel which calls itself the great British news channel, and talks about their own policies and promote themselves?" Marina Purkiss

@Ofcom @MarinaPurkiss "Not a public service broadcaster" That's got to be just about the lamest defence of anything, ever. Like 99.99% of the viewing public ever even stop and think about that distinction? Marina, 100% correct. Edwina, 100% wrong.

@Paul68958640 @Ofcom @MarinaPurkiss Does Currie think that @Ofcom jurisdiction extends only to those few channels she narrowly defines as “public service”? I’ll rephrase that. Does Currie think? One of our UK media problems is that the opinion of someone like her is given any weight at all.

@Ofcom @MarinaPurkiss The CEO of OfCom is a Tory stooge that's why

@Ofcom @MarinaPurkiss When the regulatory institutions are owned/chaired by the ruling political party, they cease to be independent.

@MarinaPurkiss @Ofcom ‘They’re not a public service broadcaster’ says Edwina Currie smugly. So let’s publicise what @GBNEWS and @TalkTV really are. Propaganda machines for right wing parties and politicians. We know it and so do they.

@MarinaPurkiss @Ofcom The only people not calling it a news channel is the bottlers @Ofcom. The presenters keep saying it’s a news channel. If all of this is within the rules, the rules need to change. MPs already have a full time job.

@y_gigfran @Ofcom @MarinaPurkiss The relationship between @ofcom and gbeebies is only the most blatant example of the relationships this totally broken and corrupt government has with all of its "regulators".

@Ofcom @MarinaPurkiss

@fascinatorfun @Ofcom @MarinaPurkiss What ofcom need to wake up to is that altho viewing figures are low, they clip up segments and feed them into social media. It’s propaganda plain and simple. Needs to stop!

@MarinaPurkiss @Ofcom Whether they are a public service broadcaster is completely irrelevant Edwina Currie. The rules apply to ‘news’ programmes.