How the media lie by omission

Newsroom silence over fears truth may jeopardise jab rollout

- JACQUI DEEVOY

AFTER working as a mainstream journalist for over 30 years, I noticed a serious shift back in 2020, and things have not been the same in the world of journalism since.

On March 24 2020, 13 days after the World Health Organisation and its mouthpiece, the legacy media, started one of the biggest propaganda campaigns in human history — by informing the public that a pandemic was upon us and a day after the first UK lockdown was imposed, I discovered something rather uplifting.. on the UK government website, no less.

There, in black and white, were words that [ was sure everyone would be pleased to read. A few short paragraphs explained how this new strain of coronavirus, covid-19, wasn't scary at all. It mentioned low mortality rates and that, on March 19 2020 (four days earlier), it had been re-classified, moved out of the 'high conseguence disease' bracket, and that, all in all, it was really nothing to worry about.

I breathed a sigh of relief; not for myself (1 knew, even then, it was a massive scam) but for all the people who were already terrified by the news. As a freelance journalist, I wanted to get this information out there as quickly as possible, so Iimmediately approached several newspapers, naively believing the editors there would be as keen as I was to share such good tidings. My pitches were abruptly rejected. Strange. Why didn't the papers want to publish such happy news? Didn't they want to reassure the public? And if not, why not?