THE GUARDIAN: Former BBC journalist vents anger at rightwing channel for suspending him after taking a knee on air
Guto Harri has quit GB News after he was suspended for taking the knee during a discussion about racism towards black footballers.
The former BBC news journalist had been taken off air by the rightwing news channel, but there was talk of him returning at some point.
On Sunday he vented his anger at the channel, describing it as “rapidly becoming an absurd parody of what it proclaimed to be”. At the same time it emerged that the former Ukip leader Nigel Farage was being hired by GB News to host a nightly prime-time show.
By Sunday afternoon it became clear that Harri had formally quit the channel. In his resignation letter, seen by the Guardian, he writes that he signed up “in good faith and with genuine enthusiasm”. » | Mark Brown | Sunday, July 18, 2021
