For self-explanatory reasons, we publish the following anonymously.
A year ago, I wrote an article in my UK column accusing traditional media newspaper owners of criminal negligence for allowing coronavirus-related misinformation and fear-based propaganda to appear in their headlines.
Since then, the level of hatred towards journalists working in the industry, which I have been a part of for a quarter century, has only increased.
Anonymous whistleblower's second article about working at a UK newspaper during the Covid crisis deflects hatred towards journalists Top of the newspaper industry People who serve big pharma over the truth.
Censorship? Censorship of what?
Most journalists I know are completely unaware of global censorship; they are often new to the job, thrown into a workplace of increasingly aggressive publicists.
A community reporter I consider a friend listened to my concerns about tech giants censoring scientists and medical experts who were defying World Health Organization guidelines on the alleged pandemic, and I assumed they would be aware of this because Facebook pays their salary, but they responded, “Oh, we didn't know.”
Add to this ignorance the chronic staffing shortages we endure, with cuts announced almost annually at editorial levels across the board, and our industry is Press releases are issued in large numbers without protest..
One example of this is when an editor asked us to upload an NHS press release directly onto the newspaper's website advising pregnant women to get the Covid vaccine as it is “safe and effective” – this same editor was too scared to return to the office earlier this year, despite other colleagues now returning to work, and I genuinely believe this editor considered the press release to be nothing more than legitimate public health advice.
So the whole foundation of the news industry was stripped away, and it happened over a decade ago.
And we are dealing with ignorant individuals working within it, many of whom are either working for the BBC or GuardianBut do they deserve our hatred and contempt?
When I wrote my last whistleblowing journal, I was angry, frustrated and scared about where the world was heading and how my industry was pushing it. I hated my colleagues’ ignorance and blind faith in authority.
But after another year of receiving my paycheck from what I still believe to be the PR arm of a globalist billionaire, I have begun to feel sorry for these soldiers who have caused so much damage by not challenging authority. And I worry about them.
Enchanted
It won't be long before (if not already) that British journalists face physical harm for being held accountable for events during the Covid era, and I have personally experienced public hostility towards journalists.
At a recent public meeting highlighting the record of life-changing harm and death caused by the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, when I announced that I work for the mainstream media, some in the audience turned on me, shouting that I was a disgrace and should quit my job.
If it weren't for a prominent local politician who knows me and defended my integrity, I would have had to make a hasty exit for my own safety.
Over the past two years, the mainstream news media has become one of the most disliked professions in the country, especially among people who have only recently learned, or who already know, not to trust authority on world issues.
Now that I’m back in the office sporadically and speaking to my colleagues in person for the first time in over a year, I’m reminded just how ignorant they are: They’re not stupid, they’re not a regimented opposition, they’re not being told what to write, they’re just completely ignorant of the counter-narrative on Covid.
They are under a spell, a spell of amazingly simple proportions, consisting of only two elements – censorship and propaganda – and whose end product is fear.
Most of my colleagues are fairly low down in the editorial ranks of the global mainstream media, but they represent a microcosm of what goes on at the centres of power. This hierarchical mentality goes some way to explaining the total ignorance of those who report the news.
Several of my colleagues are realizing that humanity is being thrust into a new world order dominated by technocrats, and a few are beginning to understand that politicians have no problem lying to us about the most important global issues.
This second group is aware that something bad is happening around them, but they are repelled by the idea of a global conspiracy to enslave humanity, and they make it clear that they do not subscribe to such ideas, especially when discussing COVID-19. Conspiracy theories And it's not Conspiracy theorist.
They are afraid of damaging their reputations by discussing the coronavirus in terms of holding authorities to account, tracing money, and who benefits. Mainstream media managers are far more afraid of being labeled a “conspiracy theorist” than reporters are. One reporter was labeled an “internal conspiracy theorist” for a story he wrote detailing a women's conspiracy. Harm caused by corona injection.
Some of my coworkers I consider friends, but many I still haven't seen since offices across the country closed more than two years ago.
But recently we went back to desks, which have to be booked online in advance, and that allowed me to talk to some of them, look them in the eye, and hear their thoughts about what's going on.
It was a shocking and disheartening experience. The propaganda disseminated by the government and repeated by national newspapers and TV news networks was effective in scaring them. So much so that some of them suffered real psychological trauma. Some of my colleagues confided in me that they were “pro-vaccination” and worried about the “message” that could discourage Covid-19 vaccination. Another colleague felt it was his “civic duty” to get all vaccinated and thought nothing of it. One colleague was so concerned about my health that he sent me messages urging me to get vaccinated.
A few months later I showed that colleague evidence from the UK Office for National Statistics showing increased death rates in vaccinated people and strongly recommended that he not continue to take any Covid booster vaccines he was offered. There was no response.
Cloud of ignorance
An even more shocking example of ignorance came from a colleague. lucky It said that a reporter we were working with had become seriously ill with COVID-19 and had received three shots, with no link found between the shots and getting sick.
This same colleague had written an opinion piece a few months earlier, urging people to continue getting the Covid-19 vaccine, despite quoting a woman who had died after suffering from a blood clot in the newspaper that same day. Is this cognitive dissonance? Group formation? I don't pretend to know, but it can be isolating and lonely to work among a population that is so programmed by TV news, and they certainly don't like to be challenged in their beliefs. I have done it, and it has cost me.
A veteran reporter who prides himself on knowing the world was talking to me about rumors about the pandemic, and when I asked him what he knew about midazolam, he said he'd never heard of it.
This censorship by the traditional media has meant that my colleagues and former colleagues have been left completely unaware of the counter-COVID narrative, some of whom genuinely believe in Bill Gates as a charitable benefactor to humanity and Chris Whitty as a responsible scientist who can help steer the UK out of its predicament.
They live in a different reality than I do, and I don't want to wade into the information stream of people with radically different opinions. As one colleague told me recently, they only get their information about world affairs from the mainstream media. I told her that I don't get my information from the mainstream media. Any Information about world affairs obtained from mainstream media.
The conversation ended there. We were both so immersed in our own worlds that it was extremely uncomfortable even to have a debate with someone who thought differently from us.
These types of people, who get their understanding of the world from television, radio, and mainstream newspapers, don't just work in the mainstream media. They work in every field: medicine, education, politics, Congress, entertainment, sports, the church, etc. Whatever their field of employment, there are people who trust whoever has the loudest microphone.
But there are many more of these people in mainstream news. Many more. Their careers in the industry depend on their viewership of other mainstream media, especially at the local level, where their “news sense” is dictated by what the national news reports.
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So here I am, a journalist who has worked exclusively in mainstream news for 25 years, unable to wake up most of my colleagues and retreating into my own shell apart from the occasional email spat and rare in-person meetings.
I know what's going on in the world, and they don't, and I've been restricted from writing about what I do know, or even asking authoritative questions that editors don't want to hear.
But I will not give up or walk away. I will remain in my post because I know the situation will most likely get worse. If it gets worse, my colleagues will start to wake up more. And I am here to guide them and show them the official documents they are completely unaware of because the national newspapers and broadcast news choose to ignore them. If you ask a journalist what they know about PCR test cycle rates or the SPI-B government document that encourages using fear-based propaganda in the media to turn civilians against each other, you will only get a shocked look.
A friend recently comforted me by saying that the way to topple any edifice of unlimited control that operates through the forces of censorship and propaganda is to let loose a rat to gnaw at its foundations.
Eventually that one mouse becomes two, then four, then eight. That's how we get out of this mess, from the bottom of the corporate pyramid in which we operate. There's no point in expecting change from above. I can say with absolute certainty and experience that it's not going to happen. Journalists I work with, trust, respect and have known for years are just as ignorant about Covid-19 now as they were at the beginning of 2020.
Don't hate them, have compassion for them, they are the victims in all this.
At the end of my last UK column I made a plea: to those who make editorial decisions to be given the floor. That plea never fell on deaf ears, but I now make another plea to reporters – those who go out of their offices to speak to those in power, to network and gather stories (and above all, to be open-minded). My plea is:
Please, please, don't be afraid to ask the hard questions, seek out the information that's being censored, and decide for yourself whether it has any validity.
The fight against tyranny has to come from below, not from above. We can't wait for our knight in shining armor. He's not going to come. It takes you, the journalist on the ground, to get out there and hold those in power accountable. Then maybe our industry wouldn't be as hated as it is now. Profession Also.
