{"id":70379,"date":"2022-02-06T22:37:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T22:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/?p=70379"},"modified":"2022-02-06T22:37:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T22:37:41","slug":"fightback-news-even-journalists-are-breaking-ranks-as-war-on-humanity-flounders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/fightback-news-even-journalists-are-breaking-ranks-as-war-on-humanity-flounders\/","title":{"rendered":"Fightback news: even journalists are breaking ranks as war on humanity flounders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Disillusioned journalists form alliance against censorship of alternative coronavirus viewpoints<\/strong><\/p>\n

The journalists allege mainstream outlets aren\u2019t doing enough questioning of government narratives.<\/em><\/p>\n

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A group of 26 journalists has come together to object to the covid-19 \u201cfearmongering\u201d and the censorship of alternative views by mainstream media and Big Tech platforms since the beginning of the pandemic.<\/p>\n

According to the group, the result of the fearmongering and censorship has been the public receiving a \u201cdistorted view of the truth<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The group calls itself \u201cHolding the Line: Journalists Against Covid Censorship<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

It comprises mostly UK-based journalists working at newspapers, broadcasters, and PR companies as staffers or freelancers.<\/p>\n

The members were interviewed by Press Gazette<\/em>, with most preferring to remain anonymous for fear of retribution from their employers.<\/p>\n

However, some were more than happy to be named, including Sonia Elijah and Karen Harradine, investigative journalists for The Conservative Woman, former BBC<\/em> journalist Tony Gosling, and Laura Berril, a PR and tech journalist.<\/p>\n

The group\u2019s mission is to promote a \u201cprejudice-free\u201d environment where journalists can air their concerns and raise awareness on lesser-covered issues.<\/p>\n

To them, the media is doing \u201camazing work<\/em>.\u201d But there are some failures, especially surrounding covid reporting, such as \u201ca lack of context for statistics, due coverage for alternative treatments, scrutiny of PCR testing, attention to adverse vaccine reactions, or balanced examinations of the costs of lockdown.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

The group accused the UK media of often publishing \u201cfear-inducing and sometimes inaccurate<\/em>\u201d reports, which in turn create hostility towards those who would prefer not to get the vaccines.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been unprecedented the way covid-19 has been reported in the UK but not just in the UK, worldwide<\/em>,\u201d said Sonia Elijah, one of the members of the group who allowed Press Gazette to mention her name.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s only been one official narrative played out in the mainstream media and that has not changed over time.<\/em><\/p>\n

There\u2019s only been one \u2018scientific truth\u2019 allowed to be discussed: the one endorsed by worldwide governmental regulatory bodies, even that has been very selective. This has given the public a distorted view of the truth which has been highly damaging<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elijah expressed her concern about censorship of information that contradicts the narrative provided by the Trusted News Initiative.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor a long time, we\u2019ve been in this dark era of censorship that\u2019s been embodied by the Trusted News Initiative which cuts across big tech and all mainstream media<\/em>,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been packaged around this war on disinformation or misinformation- where anything that\u2019s gone against the official narrative has not just been \u2018fact checked\u2019 but has been suppressed or removed<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Gosling, the group is championing for balanced debate.<\/p>\n

Gosling said: \u201cOur main concern is that there\u2019s a very powerful lobby behind many of these covid measures, including treatment, lack of treatment and vaccines, obviously, but there isn\u2019t much of a lobby in the other direction. And I think most of us feel that our employers of various sorts have not been representing both sides.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Gosling had two of his interviews featuring doctors advocating for early treatment post-diagnosis, the effectiveness of ivermectin, and the dangers of the \u201cexperimental\u201d vaccines removed by YouTube.<\/p>\n

As an example of the \u201csometimes inaccurate<\/em>\u201d coverage, he pointed to a BBC<\/em> report where the contributor claims the Pfizer jab was \u201c100% safe<\/em>\u201d for kids between the ages of 12 and 15. It was only after his complaint that the BBC<\/em> removed the \u201cshocking<\/em>\u201d and \u201cdisgusting<\/em>\u201d claim and provided a correction.<\/p>\n

Gosling added: \u201cMy own aim is to provide balance, that\u2019s it basically. And also to point out to the public that the journalists don\u2019t always get to choose what gets published.<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s the owners and the editors that have the final say, so we are all of the same mind that we would like to see more journalists being editors and having their own newspapers, having their own TV\/radio stations but that\u2019s very, very rare. So there\u2019s always an editor somewhere just saying no, I don\u2019t want this, and particularly through this pandemic that\u2019s the way it\u2019s been, people have found it difficult to get stories in, and it\u2019s been frustrating.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

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yogaesoteric
\nFebruary 6, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

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