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What They Don’t Talk About on the BBC

by Toby Young
31 March 2021 10:28 PM

We’re publishing an original post today by Dr Mark Shaw, a retired dentist and regular contributor to Lockdown Sceptics. After getting a double-dose of pro-lockdown propaganda on the BBC last week – first on Question Time, then on Any Questions – he was moved to write this piece. He made a list of those questions BBC correspondents and editors should be asking but aren’t:

  • The scandalous failure and cost of NHS Track and Trace and the serious inaccuracies of the PCR and lateral flow tests upon which lockdown strategy were/are based.
  • Why broadcasters have not been reporting over the years how lethal and devastating flu is and how serious its post-viral effects are; and that flu kills far more young people than Covid.
  • Why the BBC is not reporting projections of the non-Covid death toll resulting from lockdown.
  • While I believe informed adults should be able to choose to smoke, why are reporters not drawing attention to the fact that, despite a global annual death toll around three times that of Covid, the Government does not ban tobacco use to “save lives” and “protect the NHS”?
  • Why has the BBC given so little time to discussing lockdown alternatives, the lack of evidence of the effectiveness of lockdowns and mask wearing, the HART Report (“COVID-19: An overview of the evidence”), and the enormous influence and control that SAGE has in Government policy making.
  • Why, in discussing the pros and cons of this particular vaccine rollout, has the BBC submitted nothing but the ‘pros’ and virtually nothing of the risks?
  • Why has there been no comprehensive investigative journalism into the scientific and healthcare authorities that prevent their employees from speaking openly about the effects lockdowns are having on their institutions, their patients and themselves?

Worth reading in full.

Tags: BBCMinistry of TruthPropaganda

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MikeAustin
MikeAustin
4 years ago

I would also add Reiner Fuellmich. The BBC have never once mentioned his class action. Moreover, if you search their website, there is no mention of his name anywhere!

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Milo
Milo
4 years ago
Reply to  MikeAustin

Or the Norway second Nuremberg trial

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caipirinha17
caipirinha17
4 years ago

And the failure to investigate the potential alternative treatments in particular ivermectin, preferring instead to censor the mere mention of it.

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10navigator
10navigator
4 years ago
Reply to  caipirinha17

Caipirinha. Sound message. Great cocktail.

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Stephensceptic
Stephensceptic
4 years ago

Agree with the article.

I never watch the BBC though.

The last program they made that I enjoyed was probably Red Dwarf from the 90s.

I also avoid all other mainstream TV news outputs.

Just seems to be a relentless diet of fear mongering and sensationalism.

My overall belief is that western civilization is in a death spiral.

Mark Steyn is not everyone’s cup of tea but he calls this correctly.

I also recommend “Why the West Rules – for now” by Ian Morris.

Lots of fascinating historical analyses of how previous civilizations have collapsed in the past.

Very similar to what we are starting to see nowadays.

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esseepee
esseepee
4 years ago

It is rather coincidental that the government released news they weren’t going to decriminalise the license fee after months and months of the BBC basically shelving investigative journalism challenging the government responses to Covid while actively pushing their propaganda.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
4 years ago

The BBC does discuss Test & Trace, in this report (1/4/21) it reveals that fewer than one in five people with Covid symptoms ask for a test and that less than half of people know what the major symptoms are (after 12 months of wall to wall coverage).

”The reports authors, including some from Kings College London, said ‘with such low rates for testing and self isolation the effectiveness of Test & Trace is limited’.

‘Last month the Public Accounts Committee said
“the impact of Test & Trace was unclear despite the government setting aside £37 Billion for it over two years”
and in December the NAO criticised the scheme saying it had not yet achieved its objectives.

Part two ‘jobs merrygoround’ follows

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karenovirus
karenovirus
4 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

Last week, 30/3/21, an item appeared in HSJ, a journal for healthcare leaders,

‘TEST AND TRACE CHIEF TO TAKE ROLE AT NHS AGENCY (their caps).
The Chief Information Officer for Test & Trace is set to become the CEO of NHS Digital.
You need to be signed in to read more’.

Some might call this a jobs merrygoround.

NHS Digital is the present name of the quango that has been failing to digitize the NHA for thirty years, among its several early identities was ‘Connecting For Health’.

The individual going from one failed institution to another is not named by HSJ but your intrepid LS reader tracked him down in Part 3.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
4 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

It’s Simon Bolton from his very own LinkedIn account.
As you can see Simon has lots of IT and digital experience within the NHS, let’s see how well he continues to fail in his new appointment.

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Milo
Milo
4 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

maybe this is a good thing from vaxx passport perspective??

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Corinna
Corinna
4 years ago

Totally agree with your points!

I would also add these questions to your list of issues the BBC should address:

  • Is there anyone out there without ‘long illness’ in some format as part of their daily existence (headaches, depression, stomach pain etc)? My husband has never recovered fully from an asthma attack he had as a young man – why does the BBC assume that ‘long Covid’ is a unique event linked to Covid?
  • Why does it not question the wastefulness of single-use plastic in these so-called Covid tests and the fact that they come all the way from China?
  • Why does the BBC not highlight that the majority of young people who have been impacted by Covid are overweight young people?
  • If we are now “led by science”, is it not science that got us into this mess, whether in the form of a disturbance of natural habitats leading to zoonotic transmission or a leak from the Wuhan lab?
  • Why does the BBC seem to assume that people who e.g. make an effort to eat healthily and/or do not smoke but don’t take the jab are less “publicly spirited” than people who eat processed and smoke and get jabbed? Why does the BBC not respect choice over these matters and ‘parity of esteem’?
  • What would really happen if no one reported on Covid from tomorrow?
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chris c
chris c
4 years ago
Reply to  Corinna

There are just so many elephants that we need to build more rooms. Add in natural immunity, cross immunity and the immune system in general including prophylactics like vitamin D, C, zinc and a proper diet, and cheap effective treatments. Yet to believe the BBC this is The Plague 2.0 and WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!111 unless we get our sainted jabs which of course have no side effects or long term consequences

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DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago

Its true what they say, you can fool all of the sheep all of the time

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Crystal Decanter
Crystal Decanter
4 years ago

BBC should have been dismantled after Saville
The fact that it wasn’t tells you everything you need to know about the political class

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago

I’m not one of the knee-jerk ‘Get rid of the BBC’ brigade. That would simply narrow the wider available choice in broadcasting in sacrificing everything to commercial pressures, and the generation of even more samey pap. However, I’ve always recognised that, in terms of news output, it is the state broadcaster, run by establishment interests, and therefore that the news and current affairs output has to be regarded critically.

But, undoubtedly, the Covid shit-show has presented a new low in the descent from bias to sheer exclusionary propaganda (not that other MSM channels have distinguished themselves). The current situation is entirely sinister in terms of the establishment control over content and the nadir of broadcast journalism that is now evident.

Behind the problem lie not broadcasting per se, but the much more fundamental issues of constitution and power in a democratic society. The flaws have been massively exposed in the last 12 months.

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Milo
Milo
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

“The current situation is entirely sinister in terms of the establishment control over content and the nadir of broadcast journalism that is now evident.”

And the sick thing is that we are expected to continue to PAY FOR IT whether we watch it or not. The BBC has a lot of blood on its hands going forward.

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Julian
Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

The MSM in general here and elsewhere has been dreadful during the coronamadness. The BBC however deserves extra opprobrium because of the position of trust they occupy, and because of their state funding, and the fact they don’t need to chase after “clicks”. It’s a bit chicken and egg – are they “establishment” because it’s the establishment that pays their wages or because the BBC tends to recruit and reward people with certain strands of thinking? I guess it doesn’t matter too much which – the most important thing is that they have abandoned critical journalism.

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