I'm waiting for Jeremy Vine to do his BBC radio 2 show on "Covid - did you get misled into taking the toxic jab?" "Masks - were you bullied into wearing one?" "Lockdowns - did your business fold due to illegal lockdowns depriving you of an income?"
When this happens we will know that the bell is tolling somewhere for all these crooks, charlatans, thieves, liars, narcissists.
When we have put a fork in the COVID19 fakery, can we all agree to move on and finish the job on Net Zero Carbon nonsense, then move onto government CBDCs? Piece by piece we can take back our democracies from these international mobsters and use actual science and common sense to cure our planet and have good lives.
Propaganda only works if everyone believes it. Fingers-crossed... the public have woken up to reality. Next climate change/Net Zero/Green Deal please. Newspapers have to follow their readership or else file for bankruptcy.
I’m in the US and young people here don’t watch the television news, be it National or local. I don’t either, my local news station just repeated the CDC talking points. Many people are awake.
I've had the same thought as Joel all along. The mainstream press faces a conundrum - if they keep covering up the facts (and refusing to even investigate serious claims), they will lose all credibility. In fact, they've already lost most of their credibility as witnessed by plunging subscription numbers and terrible advertising (except for Big Pharma). But if they belatedly start doing their job, this would be an admission that they were covering up the facts for years, that they were active participants in a conspiracy to spread and protect a false narrative.
I actually think executives at Fox News might recognize this. This network has recently begun to challenge the narrative on vaccines and all the other Covid lies (especially Tucker Carlson). My speculation is that they know the truth will come out and they want to be on "the right side of history" when it does. That is, at least they can say they challenged some parts of the false narrative well before their "journalism" peers. This might enhance their credibility and benefit their business in the future. This separates or distinguishes their "news coverage" from that of their competitors.
This is an important nugget you found, Joel. Common sense tells us some reporters or editors must be taking note of the fact the "public" is way ahead of the "fact-finding journalists" on all elements of the Covid story. A great (untold) story would be to show all the efforts that MUST be taking place in newsrooms to conceal the truth.
Agree. We have one journalist here in the Netherlands who attacked John Campbell on Twitter. Claiming that Dr. John made huge amounts of money on his youtube broadcasts. Quite a disguting piece of proze. The best thing about it is the Twitter comments, exactly as you mention above. Its quite obvious that most people are done with the narrative. Is the dam breaking?
This is the quandary of the COVID era: how do you admit you were wrong, when you were so sure you were right? So far the only person I've seen do it is Tim Robbins, in his interview with Russell Brand.
One of the single best things about social media is it affords little old nobodies like myself the capability to assess public thinking & produce basic data-sets using their responses to posts by mainstream media, government etc.
I got into this by assessing the popularity of the McCanns, parents who staged an abduction in Portugal to cover-up the death/murder of their daughter Madeleine. When this fine couple first appeared in the media in 2007 they were almost universally liked & pitied. At first everyone fell for it t. Around 95% of the public supported them. But that did not last long. Over the following years, using the publics responses on social media as a measure, their popularity has plummeted to the point where half a percent of social media commenters still support the couple. It took less than fifteen years for the McCann's to go from 95% public support to 0.5% public support, if that!
95% of the public were expressing support for all sorts of pandemic measures not so long ago. Whether support for the vaccines ever got that high, I have no idea, but some countries boast vaccination levels of 95% or even more. So support for the vaccines was in some cases very high. That time is also gone. Now, judging by responses to a post by the UK gov about the two years anniversary since the rollout, the public are, again, around 0.5% supportive. The only difference between the McCanns bs narrative & the Covid/vaccine bs narrative is that the McCann's narrative took over a decade to collapse while the Covid/vaccine narrative has collapsed within two years.
Re: "Reader Comments" ... There's a reason the Establishment fears these sections. The sites that do allow them (especially unmoderated/uncensored Comment Sections) provide a great public service and at least one way to get around the "gatekeepers of the news." I've actually found several blockbuster news items ... in the Reader Comments.
I'm waiting for Jeremy Vine to do his BBC radio 2 show on "Covid - did you get misled into taking the toxic jab?" "Masks - were you bullied into wearing one?" "Lockdowns - did your business fold due to illegal lockdowns depriving you of an income?"
When this happens we will know that the bell is tolling somewhere for all these crooks, charlatans, thieves, liars, narcissists.
When we have put a fork in the COVID19 fakery, can we all agree to move on and finish the job on Net Zero Carbon nonsense, then move onto government CBDCs? Piece by piece we can take back our democracies from these international mobsters and use actual science and common sense to cure our planet and have good lives.
Let It Rain.. On them!!!!
Propaganda only works if everyone believes it. Fingers-crossed... the public have woken up to reality. Next climate change/Net Zero/Green Deal please. Newspapers have to follow their readership or else file for bankruptcy.
I’m in the US and young people here don’t watch the television news, be it National or local. I don’t either, my local news station just repeated the CDC talking points. Many people are awake.
I've had the same thought as Joel all along. The mainstream press faces a conundrum - if they keep covering up the facts (and refusing to even investigate serious claims), they will lose all credibility. In fact, they've already lost most of their credibility as witnessed by plunging subscription numbers and terrible advertising (except for Big Pharma). But if they belatedly start doing their job, this would be an admission that they were covering up the facts for years, that they were active participants in a conspiracy to spread and protect a false narrative.
I actually think executives at Fox News might recognize this. This network has recently begun to challenge the narrative on vaccines and all the other Covid lies (especially Tucker Carlson). My speculation is that they know the truth will come out and they want to be on "the right side of history" when it does. That is, at least they can say they challenged some parts of the false narrative well before their "journalism" peers. This might enhance their credibility and benefit their business in the future. This separates or distinguishes their "news coverage" from that of their competitors.
This is an important nugget you found, Joel. Common sense tells us some reporters or editors must be taking note of the fact the "public" is way ahead of the "fact-finding journalists" on all elements of the Covid story. A great (untold) story would be to show all the efforts that MUST be taking place in newsrooms to conceal the truth.
Agree. We have one journalist here in the Netherlands who attacked John Campbell on Twitter. Claiming that Dr. John made huge amounts of money on his youtube broadcasts. Quite a disguting piece of proze. The best thing about it is the Twitter comments, exactly as you mention above. Its quite obvious that most people are done with the narrative. Is the dam breaking?
“Squeaky bum”. Thanks Joel for starting my day off with a laugh. And with hope.
This is the quandary of the COVID era: how do you admit you were wrong, when you were so sure you were right? So far the only person I've seen do it is Tim Robbins, in his interview with Russell Brand.
One of the single best things about social media is it affords little old nobodies like myself the capability to assess public thinking & produce basic data-sets using their responses to posts by mainstream media, government etc.
I got into this by assessing the popularity of the McCanns, parents who staged an abduction in Portugal to cover-up the death/murder of their daughter Madeleine. When this fine couple first appeared in the media in 2007 they were almost universally liked & pitied. At first everyone fell for it t. Around 95% of the public supported them. But that did not last long. Over the following years, using the publics responses on social media as a measure, their popularity has plummeted to the point where half a percent of social media commenters still support the couple. It took less than fifteen years for the McCann's to go from 95% public support to 0.5% public support, if that!
95% of the public were expressing support for all sorts of pandemic measures not so long ago. Whether support for the vaccines ever got that high, I have no idea, but some countries boast vaccination levels of 95% or even more. So support for the vaccines was in some cases very high. That time is also gone. Now, judging by responses to a post by the UK gov about the two years anniversary since the rollout, the public are, again, around 0.5% supportive. The only difference between the McCanns bs narrative & the Covid/vaccine bs narrative is that the McCann's narrative took over a decade to collapse while the Covid/vaccine narrative has collapsed within two years.
All the Daily Mail comments on the recent covid stories have been absolutely cracking.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11600095/World-Health-Organisation-warns-XBB-1-5-transmissible-Covid-variant-yet.html#comments
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34916207/
From BMJ itself
Re: "Reader Comments" ... There's a reason the Establishment fears these sections. The sites that do allow them (especially unmoderated/uncensored Comment Sections) provide a great public service and at least one way to get around the "gatekeepers of the news." I've actually found several blockbuster news items ... in the Reader Comments.
I recently wrote a piece on this topic.
https://billricejr.substack.com/p/in-praise-of-reader-comments
What a hopeful post -- loving this!!!
monday night football (nfl) we saw a 24 year old super athlete go into cardiac arrest after a routine tackle!!1
every vaxxed youth is at risk like Damar!
the standard for a human use should be "proven safe", not "you must prove it harmful"!
The best Daily Mail Comment is from someone in Dorchester: "The Truth Is Out There, But You Are Not." Well put, that commenteer!