{"id":273890,"date":"2023-09-30T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=273890"},"modified":"2023-10-01T07:03:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T07:03:08","slug":"rebellion-at-gb-news-grows-now-calvin-robinson-becomes-third-presenter-to-be-suspended-after-refusing-to-go-on-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=273890","title":{"rendered":"Rebellion at GB News grows: Now Calvin Robinson becomes third presenter to be suspended after refusing to go on air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rev Calvin Robinson<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Rory Tingle and Danya Bazarraa \u2013 Daily Mail.com Sept 29, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Calvin Robinson has been suspended from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/gb-news\/index.html\"><strong>GB News<\/strong><\/a> after tweeting he would refuse to appear on air following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/laurence-fox\/index.html\"><strong>Laurence Fox<\/strong><\/a> row.<\/p>\n<p>Fox was suspended from the channel after he made a series of remarks on the programme about political correspondent Ava Evans, which included asking &#8216;who would want to s**g that?&#8217; on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday morning, GB News boss Angelos Frangopoulos apologised to Ms Evans for the comments stating they &#8216;should not have gone to air&#8217; and should have been &#8216;properly challenged&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Fox has since apologised and GB News is undertaking an internal investigation while regulator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/ofcom\/index.html\"><strong>Ofcom<\/strong><\/a> has launched a probe after receiving around 7,300 complaints over the episode.<\/p>\n<p>Rev Robinson hit out at GB News on X, formerly known at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/twitter\/index.html\"><strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, saying the channel should be a &#8216;chance to have conversations&#8217; you can&#8217;t have on other channels.<\/p>\n<p>But a few hours later he posted a tweet saying he had been suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the situation on X, formerly known as Twitter, Rev Robinson wrote:\u00a0&#8216;I get that people have to pay the bills. But GB News is more than a job &#8211; it&#8217;s certainly more than a chance to be on the telly &#8211; it is a mission.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;An opportunity to shift the dial in public discourse. To have the conversations the shills on other channels cannot or will not have.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We must do all we can to avoid GB News becoming just another MSM outlet. Which it will, if we let it.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that the bosses of GB News are &#8216;afraid&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Rev Robinson added:\u00a0&#8216;We are about to see if people really care about the project, or they just want a better slot, with a bigger team and better pay.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Dan Wootton has also since apologised to Ms Evans, suggesting he should have intervened during the broadcast, while Fox said he was &#8216;sorry for demeaning&#8217; the journalist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12575609\/Chaos-GB-News-grows-Calvin-Robinson-presenter-suspended-refusing-air-channel-descends-mayhem.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev Calvin Robinson, who came out in support of suspended presenter Laurence Fox and who was promptly suspended for doing so, says the bosses at GB News are &#8220;afraid&#8221;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":273892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273890"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273893,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273890\/revisions\/273893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/273892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}