Given what is now known, what are JOURNALISTS to do next?
Given what is now known, what are JOURNALISTS to do next?
IF YOU are engaging in MEDIA CENSORSHIP - break out of it...
So, we used to think of “Censorship” in connection with those totalitarian regimes mentioned in high school Social Studies classes - where governments ensure that its citizens do not have access to information they wish to keep suppressed. Examples were the National-Socialists (Nazis) prior to and during WWII and the regime running the Soviet Union from Stalin and Lenin up to 1989 when the Cold War ended. Dictatorships like the former Communist East Germany had a complex and extensive network of spies and snitches to ensure that information from Western magazines, newspapers, flyers, even Western songs on cassette tapes smuggled in by visiting relatives, would NOT last long in the country known as the “German Democratic Republic.” So while our East German cousins needed to find creative ways to access “contraband” information, we in the free West, believed that in our democratic Western countries, and in Canada of all places, nothing remotely close to censorship would ever be possible. Canadians wouldn’t stand for it. No government would ever dare to restrict our access to information. We are a nation of educated people after all. And isn’t it our responsibility as citizens to be educated about all of the issues facing us as a society? And to notice any attempts at censorship before they might creep up on us?
The words “censorship” and “surveillance” bring to mind scenes from the German movie The Lives of Others, in which the socialist East German government agent goes to great lengths to spy on the lives of persons of interest.
Today in our free and open Western democracies it appears that it is not the government that is directly keeping information away from the people. Until we look more closely. A major case in points all the data in the so-called “Twitter files” which demonstrate just how involved the Biden government was in having social media companies clamp down on communications by key individuals. Similarly the folks at Reclaim the Net have been noting the growth of state involvement in censoring and silencing dissenting voices. See also a more recent update here and here, the latter of which is a lawsuit by US Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. against the collusion between YouTube and Google and the US government for their actions to silence his right for freedom of expression.
So while the degree to which governments direct social media companies to silence voices in order to support the government narrative is not yet clear, it is clear that somehow very IMPORTANT information is being kept from people all across this land, at all levels of the educational ladder. Actually and oddly, the higher up that ladder people are, i.e., within the managerial class, the more removed they appear to be from the goings-on out in the fields under discussion. The more “educated”, the less they seem to be relying on those magic machines in all of our pockets - those devices that provide us with 24/7 access to the world’s largest libraries, the leading publications in every field, live or recorded lectures and talks given by all of the world’s experts. The more schooling, the less informed. How can that be?
It often appears the more formal education a person has participated in, the more they trust the expertise of people highly placed in their fields. Unless of course, they themselves ARE the experts in their fields and understand how their fields have long or recently been captured by big money interests. Money talks. Or money tells us what to talk about. And what to keep silent about.
Let’s work backwards to see this in action…
When one of the world’s top global asset managers (BlackRock) makes this pledge to its investors:
[It’s] about you: our stakeholders. As a global asset manager and fiduciary to our clients, our purpose has always been to continue finding new ways to help more and more people experience financial well-being.
And when the investors hold stock in firms like a number of these:
their financial managers will also be buying stock in any number of tech companies, including those that manufacture energy, food, pharmaceuticals, military weapons, the list goes on. Any hot commodities are fair game in the pursuit of profit making for their shareholders.
Let’s work through this step by step using a Canadian media platform, CTV:
Someone else might simply assume that since the CTV was always a reputable news instituition in Canada, there is no need to double check or doubt any of their news coverage.
Meanwhile, I type “Who owns CTV” into my search engine and discover this news item from 2010:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/bell-canada-parent-bce-buys-ctv-inc-for-1-3b-1.551533
Finding nothing more recent, I am going out on a hunch that BCE Inc. still owns CTV News. For more info on BCE, for example what the initials stand for, I soon find the Wikipedia entry which confirms that BCE is connected to Bell Canada. Here I learn that it is one of Canada’s top 10 largest corporations, that it owns not just telephone hardware, but also cell phones, phone stores, internet service companies and even Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment. In other words, full spectrum dominance from the content creator all the way up the chain through hardware, software, distribution to right in front of my eyeballs. We are not just dealing with single NEWSPAPERS anymore when discussing media companies, that is for sure!
So which types of firms invest in BCE? Which kinds of investor groups would CTV journalists tick off and drive away by their choice of stories to cover? A super easy tool for citizen and professional journalists alike is Stockzoa.com. Here we see:
https://stockzoa.com/ticker/bce/ (as of August 26, 2023)
Click on any of these and soon you find which funds invest in which stock, with much overlap all around. Currently (with the failures of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine becoming increasingly evident) Pfizer and other Covid-19 vaccine company stock are not as prevalent in the top 10 of many of these funds as they were at the height of the roll outs. Nevertheless, the principle is there… “Never bite the hand that feeds you.” If XYZ stock is among those who invest in your company, you may be hesitant running hit pieces against products that company sells!!
But things got way more efficient once the “track and trace” type of tools that tech platforms offer got thrown into the mix.
If you are a journalist employed by a mainstream media corporation (or simply if you diligently follow your favourite mainstream media outlet as a consumer of information and entertainment products) do you know whether your company has joined any of these “trust initiatives”?
The TRUST PROJECT
The JOURNALISM TRUST INITIATIVE
PROJECT ORIGIN or others?
To undertand the workings of the Trusted News Initiative see this brief video. Did you notice how many media outlets screencapped earlier in this post are part of “the Trust Project”? Notice how little diversity of voices those many organizations end up reflecting, if each of their stories is run through the filter of the corporate investment-focussed social media corporations they got into bed with?
When paired up with vaccine investors Alphabet (Google) or Meta (Facebook) or whether involved with endowments and funding from groups liked to the CIA or top “philanthro-capitalists” like George Soros’ Open Society Foundation and the National Endowment for Democracy any news organization reliant on outside funding will have some means of censorship (or “Community Standard Guidelines”) that shapes the work of its journalists. (Note that George Soros was mentioned in our previous post.)
How does all of this play out in real life?
—> Check out the news stories presented on this Substack on July 31 and August 26. (Look for the two dozen donuts here.) Has your favourite news organization ever covered any of these stories? If not, why not? If so, in what way.. i.e. as a valid story or as some “wild conspiracy theory”?
—> Also check out the summary of major evidence-based COVID-19 related information along with the references posted on August 8, 2023. Take these to your colleagues and your supervisors as ask why your organization has not been running any of these stories. WHAT ARE YOU ALL AFRAID OF? Why not buck the trend? They can’t fire ALL OF YOU!!! With at least 13 million casualties so far worldwide. YOUR SILENCE and YOUR PARTICIPATION is NOT an option!
—> Take a close look at the RED X’s on the graphics in this post:
And ask yourself how your news organization has helped to block the flow of vital information. And what your role has been in enabling this blockage.
—> Type in “journalist” or “misinformation” into the search of the followingthecovidscience substack to learn from plenty of other references already posted on this topic!!
—> Given that the next major threat to the global population is the World Health Organization Pandemic treaty, please DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP…. take the time to read the entire post by US. bioweapons experts (and physician) Dr. Meryl Nass here:
Without a rudimentary understanding of the terms of this treaty no journalist has the right to denigrate anyone’s concern for the wellbeing of the world’s population as some kind of “conspiracy thinking.” Dr. Nass covers a lot of territory that will build the crucial background to anyone writing about a range of health care issues moving forward. A MUST READ for everyone concerned about the current state of affairs. To denigrate this content as “conspiratorial” is to let others know you are NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY.
—> Familiarize yourself with the content of the over 300 testimonies to the 24 day long National Citizens’ Inquiry (NCI) on Canada’s COVID-19 response. Visit the main website here: https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca and sign up for newsletter updates so that you don’t miss out when the many volunteers helping on this project upload all the documentation for each witness in handy media packages. Until that happens, use the temporary directory of topics found here: When you encounter the work of “fact checkers”, hold their work up against the information shared by the expert witnesses who testified at the NCI and note who has more hands-on field-based expertise and credibility….. and who is simply playing a gate-keeper function, shutting the door of inquiry on crucial topics. Ask “Why? “and ask… “Who stands to gain?” if a wide swath of the population does NOT GET THIS INFORMATION?
—> Before running a very one-sided story, reach out to some of the NCI expert witnesses to include a range of opinions as required by the Ethics Guidelines governing your profession which includes statements like these:
Your job is to educate your readership to be able to sift through claims and counterclaims and to be able to identify when sources cited may have conflicts of interest. Your job is not to promulgate only one side of the story as a so-called “do-gooder.” That would be in clear violation of your own professional guidelines.
In addition to taking the actions listed above, consider the 8 items in this post:
Only if and when all those working in the news industry will jointly stand up against being used as agents of marketing and propaganda will the continued Mis/Dis and Malinformation (MDM) of society end. What if you and other colleagues secretly organize an institution-wide virtual walk-out to protest being forced to follow “community guidelines” that in themselves promote misinformation? For example, if your organization still uses claims such as these incorrect 2021 statements from Alberta Health Services as its basis for determining which stories are “misinformation” it is high time to organize employer action to effect change!
One-sided foundation funded agencies writing disdainfully of evidence-based scientists as “purveyors of misinformation” are also a major part of the problem. See this article as but a single example. Check to see to what degree your employer seems beholden to these types of views.
Finally, counteract corporate-funded one-sided MDM by reaching out to and learning from your former mainstream media colleagues who have since parted ways with their compromised employers. Some examples include PressforTruth.ca, Trish Wood, and Rodney Palmer.
Dear Journalists, dear members of the news media,
YOU are the glue that holds this narrative together. Without the media promulgating falsehoods, this whole thing would have fallen apart pretty much near the start. Sadly, we have countless vaccine injured Canadians who are paying the price of having placed their trust in you….and countless lives lost far too young.
