Press Release Journalism Favours Scott Morrison and the Liberal Party, A Sense of Place Magazine, As Editor, 1 October, 2020.
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Press Release Journalism Favours Scott Morrison and the Liberal Party
By Rashad Seedeen with Independent Australia
Of late, it has become increasingly frustrating to follow the news.
During times of relative stability and peace, poor journalism is an annoyance. But during times of crisis, mediocre reporting has far greater consequences.
There’s much criticism that we can examine but let’s look at just one area of concern — press-release journalism. This is a lazy and even tribal form of reporting where journalists simply repackage the sound-bites and press releases of politicians.
It is rather easy to dissect the rabid partisan muckraking of Murdoch’s usual suspects. Instead, let’s examine some leading journalists who I would consider to be usually fair in their political assessments —Australian Financial Review’s Phil Coorey and The Australian’s Peter van Onselen.
What is really wrong with our media: The Eden Monaro example
We can do this by examining two issues that have become most prominent of late — contact tracing and border restrictions.
Following the Victorian government’s announcement of the roadmap to COVID normal — the Federal Government came out swinging, the feel-good mantra that “we are all Melburnians now” long forgotten....
Ridiculing Anti Vaxxers Backfires
With TOTT News
One thing is for sure: If vaccination against the most over-hyped disease in history, Covid-19, becomes compulsory in Australia, an already distrusted government will find itself in a well of pain.
TOTT News, which has been running a series of sceptical stories on Big Pharma and the massive expansion of state controls since the beginning of the “pandemic”, has tapped into a vein of community concern.
With many billions of dollars at play and vast profits to be made, the recent behaviour of both the World Health Organisation and Bill Gates has raised concerns around the world.
As Cicero put it: “Cui bono?” To whom is it a benefit?
Wikipedia describes it thus: “The Big Pharma conspiracy theory is a group of conspiracy theories that claim that the medical community in general and pharmaceutical companies in particular, especially large corporations, operate for sinister purposes and against the public good, and that they allegedly cause and worsen a wide range of diseases.”
But we live accelerated times. This morning’s science fiction is this afternoon’s reality, this morning’s conspiracy this afternoon’s plot. None of us stand on solid ground.
Due to the speed of development, the long-term consequences of a Covid-19 vaccine are unknown and cannot be known. It may, or may not, cause sterility in future generations. It may, or may not, activate genetic diseases otherwise dormant.
A vaccine might, or might not, lower the body’s immunity to similar Covid viruses, making the individual more susceptible to future epidemics, therefore more reliant on future vaccines, thereby generating yet more billions for the pharmaceutical industry.
We simply don’t know.
As the latest medical and scientific research is demonstrating, many in the community testing positive but displaying zero symptoms have a low viral count and a naturally acquired level of resistance or immunity to Covid-19 because of its similarity to other coronaviruses. Deaths remain much in the same ballpark as seasonal flu.
Leading epidemiologists around the world are now claiming that lockdowns don’t work because they lead to a crashing of the body’s natural immune system. Lockdowns may well be counterproductive, but the Australian government, and a number of governments around the world, have convinced the population to surrender their liberty on a scare.
Perhaps we get what we deserve. To reference a much used quote from Benjamin Franklin: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
Many doctors are warning that to force by law millions of people to be injected with a vaccine with unknown long term consequences imposes an unacceptable risk on the population and is not just cavalier but essentially immoral.
The many billions of dollars involved, the clear potential for bio-tracing, genetic marking and the drumbeat of anti anti-vaxxer propaganda generated by those who profit most from vaccine production raises serious concerns.
Here TOTT News looks at Australia’s involvement.