Sky News veteran exposes 'woke' madness behind the scenes: 'It was propaganda!'

Former Sky News anchor Colin Brazier was asked why exactly he quit the popular channel for a job at GB News during an appearance on this week's Daily Expresso podcast - and slammed his former employer for using "propaganda". Speaking to Daily Express' JJ Anisiobi, Brazier admitted that he quit his job after more than 20 years "of his own volition".

He explained: "I'd been there for more than 20 years. I'd gone to Sky because it wasn't the BBC, it was to the right of the BBC. It felt more representative of British public opinion. Over those 20 plus years, I left in 2021... maybe it's changed in those intervening five years, but I doubt it.

"It had become, by the time I left, something which it wasn't in the beginning. It had become woke, it had become dogmatic, in my opinion. There were punctuation marks along that narrative story wokewards which I remember, and which I think some of the people who were loyal viewers of Sky News remember as well."

Citing examples, he went on: "Whether that was the 2015 migrant crisis, whether it was the Brexit vote... The way that news station covered those events, I think, was pretty corrosive of public trust. It was certainly corrosive of my trust in the institution.

"I'd spent 10 years hoping that some sort of more representative alternative would emerge, and that was GB News. So when the opportunity came, I jumped as high as I could, as quickly as I could."

Anisiobi chimed in: "I feel like Sky News today is less relevant than it's ever been. Nobody seems to watch it anymore."

Which is when Brazier really struck the killing blow, replying: "I hope that's true. Nobody did [watch it], that's the great myth, that it punched so far above its weight. In other newsrooms, people watched it. In government and PR offices, people watched it.

"In the corridors of power it was on, and maybe in the odd hotel... but beyond that, I'm not sure people really watched it like they watch mainstream TV, Antiques Roadshow or whatever. They're not watching in numbers.

"But that was useful to Sky corporately because it meant that they had this lobbying power. I think Sky News helped them open up the corridors of power if they were looking for regulatory changes or something. It helped cleanse and rinse the image of Sky, which was tarnished, you could argue, by the association with Rupert Murdoch."

He fumed that Sky had decided to concentrate on climate change and Black Lives Matter, claiming its climate change coverage "wasn't news, actually, it was propaganda and activism, that idea of activism supplanting journalism."