The Media Needs Urgent and Drastic Reform
Whatever the reason, it is abundantly clear that the media has failed its mission. It must be reformed, immediately and from the ground up.
Yesterday, Eugyppius published a long list of vaccine injury news from the German press. The stories mostly appear in regional and local news outlets but are increasingly finding their way into mainstream national press.
Anecdotal evidence for sure, but despite this, along with waning interest in those mostly useless medications, a strong indication something isn’t right.
A few days back, Norwegian mainstream media reported on vaccine injuries for the first time, after 274 deaths following vaccination and some 8,000 serious cases of adverse effects have been reported. Out of Norway’s 4.5 million inhabitants, 81% have been vaccinated, or 3.6 million. 7.5 people per hundred thousand have been reported dead, two people per thousand have reported serious injuries.
But why are the media starting to report on those injuries only now? Already more than a year-and-a-half ago it was clear how the rate of reported injuries and deaths after Covid-19 vaccination were close to a thousandfold the rate following standard flu-vaccination. I followed this development in my own country of Iceland closely and in January 2022 I published an article comparing the reaction now with the reaction during the Swine-flu vaccination campaign in the US in 1976. This was my conclusion at the time:
Now, what were the Icelandic vaccination figures again? 260 reports of serious adverse effects per 290 thousand vaccinated? One report of serious health issues per thousand people vaccinated. Eight hundred reports per 800 thousand in 2021, against one per 800 thousand in 1976? And remember, those vaccines are not only being offered to people who are in actual danger should they catch Covid-19. They are offered to everyone, down to the age of five. To people who have absolutely no need for them. Now, even against a new strain, for which they don‘t even work, as has been demonstrated already. And the authorities use restrictions and mandates in order to force people to accept them.
Still, we‘ve known all along those vaccines are not designed to prevent infection, and it became clear months ago they will never give us herd immunity; they simply protect the vaccinated individual against serious illness. We already know the huge difference in Covid-19 lethality by age-group.
So, what happened to safety and good medicine? Why are no questions being asked when we witness such a huge surge in reports of adverse effects?
This is a question that will be asked after the panic subsides.
The only publication that would accept this article at the time was The Daily Sceptic. Any discussion of this alarming trend was vigorously suppressed by the so-called fact checking industry. Mainstream media would not touch the issue.
And still, this was no anecdotal evidence. Simply real-world evidence based on official data; a thousandfold rate of reported injuries compared with what should have been expected. And it was clear to anyone with even the most rudimentary ability for critical thinking how serious this was.
Any self-respecting journalist would have jumped on this story. Any self-respecting editor would have posted it on the front page, calling for an immediate investigation, calling for the vaccination campaign to be immediately halted. Like they did in 1976.
Why didn’t they?
Was it fear of the fact-checking industry? Was it fear of public opinion? Was it an utter lack of the ability for critical thinking? Was it cowardice? Dishonesty? Recklessness?
Why didn’t they?
Whatever the reason, it is abundantly clear that the media has failed its mission. It must be reformed, immediately and from the ground up. Whether the current media businesses, their editors and journalists will survive that reform remains to be seen.
(Photo nicked from Eugyppius’s blog)
This is going to be offensive to some people, but... Conflict-avoidant women and emasculated men are the root cause of this.
Most know the type - they're all over the media, HR, and marketing departments. Very good at message alignment because consensus is viewed as the goal. Absolutely terrible at dealing with objective reality because any idea that deviates from the consensus (however false) is viewed as a threat.
A couple of observations based on my years – long ago – in the newsroom of a major metropolitan daily paper:
Reporters seldom have a thorough understanding of the things they write about. To be fair, it's just not possible. I noticed early on that every time there was a story on a subject that I personally knew a lot about, there were errors. Most people probably have experienced similar. If there aren’t outright mistakes, there’s that generally lame feel that tips you off instantly that the writer doesn't have a clue what he's talking about. It always made me wonder how many of the stories on subjects that I didn’t know much about were also inaccurate. Probably most.
Reporters and editors generally have little interest in anything technical, especially when it involves machines and how they work. Much too low-brow to bother with. Many months after the space shuttle Challenger disaster, a story came across the wires with the final findings of the investigators. It revealed manufacturing errors made on the seals between sections of the solid rocket booster casings that were blamed for springing a leak and setting off the big fuel tank. I won’t get into the details, but here at last was the actual physical cause, and it was a machining deficiency that I had not thought of. An aha! moment for anybody interested in how that magnificent machine was put together and what brought it down. I assumed this would be Page One news, and I lobbied for treating it as such in our afternoon planning meeting. Big yawn. I don’t recall whether it even made the paper. The story was technical in nature, with no drama or bureaucratic finger-pointing. In other words, it was not the sort of soap-opera crap that would get their juices flowing, so some very important findings on one of the most memorable disasters in US history were ignored.