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Why Haven’t We Heard Dominic Cummings’ Shocking Revelations About the Chaos in Downing St Until Now? Was it Because of Ofcom’s 1984-Style Diktat that Muzzled the Broadcast Media?

by Toby Young
27 May 2021 2:56 PM

I’ve written a piece for Mail+ today about one of the overlooked aspects of Dominic Cummings’s testimony. The reason he was able to dominate the news headlines is because the broadcast media hasn’t uncovered most of the scandals he revealed before. We’d heard about a few of these stories, but the sheer depth of incompetence he revealed at the heart of Government last March was genuinely shocking. Okay, he was protected by Parliamentary privilege and it might have been difficult for television journalists to broadcast some of these stories – to accuse Matt Hancock of being a serial liar, for instance – but that’s surely not the main reason we hadn’t heard any of this stuff before. So what is the reason? I think Ofcom has a lot to answer for, as I explain in my article.

On March 27, 2020, four days after Boris announced the first lockdown, Ofcom sent some “important guidance” to its licensees, cautioning them to take “particular care” when broadcasting “statements that seek to question or undermine the advice of public health bodies on the coronavirus, or otherwise undermine people’s trust in the advice of mainstream sources of information about the disease”.

Was this a shocking attempt to muzzle the free press? Three weeks later, the regulator showed it meant business by reprimanding Eamonn Holmes, presenter of ITV’s This Morning, for breaching this guidance. His sin, according to Ofcom, was to say he didn’t think people expressing unorthodox views about the virus – such as the one linking the symptoms of Covid-19 to 5G masts – should be vilified by the mainstream media. He didn’t say he thought that particular conspiracy theory was true. In fact, he described it as “not true and incredibly stupid”. He merely said it ought to be discussed.

For that heresy, Ofcom gave him a stern ticking-off, telling him he “could have undermined people’s trust in the views being expressed by the authorities on the coronavirus”.

After that, we barely heard a squeak of criticism from broadcast journalists about the Government’s handling of the crisis. Whenever a dissenting voice popped up on the BBC, it often felt like a mistake, as though the person had only managed to slip past the official gatekeepers when they were looking the other way.

For instance, on October 14th, 2020, Professor Sunetra Gupta, a prominent critic of the Government’s approach to the pandemic, appeared on BBC News to talk about the local lockdowns that had been imposed in the north of England. It is claimed that just before she went on air, one of the producers told her not to mention the Great Barrington Declaration, a document signed by eminent scientists setting out an alternative policy. Where did that instruction come from?

Another example: At the end of September, Professor Susan Michie, a member of the Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, tweeted that she’d been invited on to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme to discuss the lockdown on the understanding that the scientists who opposed it would be portrayed as beyond the pale, only for Prof Gupta, who appeared alongside her, to make a compelling, logical argument. The SAGE panjandrum was furious.

“I’d got prior agreement from R4 about the framing of the item,” she harrumphed. “I was assured that this would not be held as an even-handed debate.”

Luckily for the BBC, it managed to avoid being censured by the state regulator for this momentary lapse.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Broadcast mediaDominic CummingsOfcom

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Paul B
Paul B
3 years ago

I’m confused, how does 10% of people disembarking a flight test positive, they all caught in in mid air or the tests are bogus (pre-departure, post departure, or all of the above!)?

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George L
George L
3 years ago
Reply to  Paul B

Yeah.. half a dozen PCR tested ‘cases’ in Botswana, and within the blink of an eye the West has declared a state of emergency and are locking down borders. You’ve got to hand it to these globalists they really have got a fair sized club of useful idiots to call on..

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PoshPanic
PoshPanic
3 years ago
Reply to  Paul B

I don’t think you’re alone. It’s what the collapse of a narrative looks like.

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago
Reply to  PoshPanic

Collapse of the narrative?

You must be joking.

NOTHING has made sense since April 2020 when it became very apparent that the covid death was somewhere around 0.2-0.3%.

Everything since then has been the Mad Hatters Tea Party.

The death rate is a bad flu if that but we act as if it were Ebola.
The PCR test is dodgy as hell but we act as if it were dead accurate
Masks don’t do jack but we act as if they are life saving devices
The jabs don’t stop infection or transmission but we have regulations treating the jabbed as not infectious.
The jabs produce terrible side effects at an unprecedented rate but everybody denies their existence.
Footballers collapse at an unprecedented rate and we are told it’s a coincidence.

Everything is mad. Completely mad.

And you think that a story of 10% testing positive on a flight is a sign of the collapse of the narrative?

It’s just more evidence that the perpetrators of this madness can say anything they want and no one will question them.

Collapse… I wish.

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Draper233
Draper233
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

I understand your pessimism Stewart but I think patience is the key here.

When I was a sceptic back in March 2020 there were very few of us, but we’ve made slow, steady progress to grow into a sizeable force against behemothic state and MSM propaganda.

The reason it’s taking so long is that many have the same mindset as those who’ve experienced fraud: it’s absolutely clear what has happened but they simply do not want to believe it.

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coppelledstreets
coppelledstreets
3 years ago
Reply to  Paul B

I would like to know what tests were done on departure and on arrival, does anyone know how they test for a variant ?

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Paul B
Paul B
3 years ago

Hmmm

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DS99
DS99
3 years ago
Reply to  Paul B

It’s that old magician’s trick, ‘make ’em watch this hand’.

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago

Good grief. The script seems set in stone. It’s like watching a really, really bad play, over, and over, and over… We might even call it Groundhog Play.

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago

So I guess the zero-covid fundamentalists have access to the levers of power and are winning after all.

Every now and then someone in authority will come out and offer some platitudes about living with the virus, that it’s endemic. But behind them there is a powerful interest group with an enormous amount of power that isn’t allowing a retreat.

It’s zero-covid whether we like it or not.

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Laicey
Laicey
3 years ago

Didn’t the South African doctor who discovered the new variant say it was very mild? A bit like the common cold. Perhaps we should lock down every time we get a new common cold.

I was planning suicide last year. Wrote a will and it took months to get it done because covid. Sorted now. If we’re going to do this every year I’m going to opt out. Can’t cope with months of no human contact.

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martinbritnell83
martinbritnell83
3 years ago
Reply to  Laicey

Same here. I’m not prepared to live like this either! I’be spent the past 18months waking up each morning wondering what the government is going to screw us over with. Last night just made feel even worse. Really don’t want to be alive right now.

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divoc origi 19
divoc origi 19
3 years ago
Reply to  martinbritnell83

I know what it is like to feel that way, but I promise you that there will be better times; for that to happen though we have to remain defiant in the face of adversity, stick together and keep trying to find ways of getting other people to see how absurd this all is.

Take a break from all media (inc here), get more exercise and learn something new. And if you need a friend, then reach out to the people on this website to see if there is somebody local who is up for a chat, walk, coffee or beer.

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sky
sky
3 years ago
Reply to  divoc origi 19

I was going to ask about this. What’s the best way for us to meet new friends locally? Many of us are desparate to meet like-minded people face-to-face.

The wonderful Unjected has a dating app, which is also good for making new friends, but most users are across the pond.

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kate
kate
3 years ago
Reply to  sky

There is a meet fellow sceptics section on the forums. Put up a message.

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DS99
DS99
3 years ago
Reply to  sky

Try stand-in-the-park.

Home – A Stand In The Park

They have a list of all stands and if you went along to your local stand, you’d hopefully meet up with some like minded local people.

It’s basically people who believe in freedom standing around on a Sunday morning.

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Draper233
Draper233
3 years ago
Reply to  sky

Well for a start they shouldn’t exclude the vaxxed. There are people on this site who are vaxxed but still sceptical.

It’s hypocritical – albeit understandable – for us to persecute the vaxxed for their decision when we’re rightly complaining about being persecuted for ours.

Ultimately it’s a personal decision which shouldn’t be judged by others either way.

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kate
kate
3 years ago
Reply to  divoc origi 19

Yes, I would advise a break from the news, including this site. There is a lot of normal life out there.
I think they will try to put pressure on us this winter, so my plan is to get through to the spring. No one should make a drastic decision at this time of year, when it gets darker every day. Wait till the spring once things open out again. I do not believe they can keep this going much longer, I think by the spring there will be too many whistleblowers, their plans will be falling apart, and things will be getting better.

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cryptical
cryptical
3 years ago
Reply to  martinbritnell83

I understand how you feel but all is not lost. Have courage, find like-minded people to gather with. Don’t focus so much on this. Get a pet, go for a walk, pray. God is out there and he is listening to those who cry out to him for help. All the best.

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cryptical
cryptical
3 years ago
Reply to  Laicey

No, don’t do it. Please find a group of like-minded people. They are out there. I agree we can’t live without human contact but it’s far better to find human contact than to end it all. I can personally say I’ve felt similar but my faith in God, church family, and the opposition group I gather with weekly give me hope and encouragement. You’re not as alone as you think, please don’t let despair win.

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paul smith
paul smith
3 years ago
Reply to  cryptical

Strangely – or perhaps, typically – over the past two years, despite everything, I’ve not dallied with suicidal ideation.
Quite the opposite.
Per Lydon, ‘anger is an energy’ and, after 19 months of this endless, circular shit-show, mine is off the charts.
I want to see some people (if you can still call them people) suffer.
And I don’t give a damn.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  paul smith

Anger is an energy.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

That’s a t-shirt.

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Backlash
Backlash
3 years ago
Reply to  paul smith

My blood is also boiling, I cannot wait for some people to get their redemption and I for one want to be one of the ones dishing it out

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John
John
3 years ago

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59450418 mandatory masks in shops again from Tuesday some 4 days after the two “cases” were first detected.

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PatrickF
PatrickF
3 years ago

We’re doomed. Doomed, I tell thee. FFS

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ComeTheRevolution
ComeTheRevolution
3 years ago

He said that “we simply don’t yet know enough” about the variant, but insisted that a “precautionary approach” must be taken against it.

We know nothing, except that we must proceed with maximum tyranny, based on nothing more than our own fraudulent assertions about a novel virus, which is not noticeable in society and for which there is no true evidence, but which lives in the minds of the majority we have hypnotised, so we can do what we want, and they never figure it out, so we just keep rinsing and repeating the same tired old tricks, laughing in their faces all the way.

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Catee
Catee
3 years ago

“Omicron Variant Spreads to Denmark And The Netherlands – And Could Lead to Restrictions Tightening in Europe”
Yada yada yada

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LonePatriot
LonePatriot
3 years ago

Reuters reporting Japan is at 1% of its COVID peak cases and falling. India is at 3% of its peak and falling. What did these countries do? Ditch vaccine mandates for ivermectin. Since April 28, India medical officials started providing hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin to its massive population. As India is the major pharmaceutical manufacturer in the world, they were ready for this massive drug distribution. MIRACULOUSLY!, COVID cases have plummeted quickly since then. Meanwhile, all “first world” countries in Europe are reporting a rise in cases. Get your ivermectin before it is too late https://ivmpharmacy.com

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Matt Dalby
Matt Dalby
3 years ago

If the Omicron variant is named after a letter of the Greek alphabet, as the Alpha, Delta, etc. strains were then it’s roughly the 15th variant of interest/concern (I’m not all that familiar with the Greek alphabet). Given that very few of the other variants became widespread it seems very suspicious that there is such a panicked over reaction to this one. Possibly the people at the heart of the conspiracy/cock up felt that project fear was starting to loose it’s effect and needed ramping up.

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paul smith
paul smith
3 years ago
Reply to  Matt Dalby

…possibly?

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186NO
186NO
3 years ago
Reply to  Matt Dalby

335300+ mutations and only 15 variants? (ref HART)

Enough for NY State to declare a SoE with no prior known cases; what on earth would they do if a really infectious disease broke out?

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marebobowl
marebobowl
3 years ago

A total load of nonsense. Please read anything by Steve Kirsch on sub stack. Avoid MSM written tv or radio.

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REMiller
REMiller
3 years ago

It occurred to me yesterday that the symptoms of this new variant (fatigue and s mild cough for a day or two) are about as severe as the after-effects of having one of the Covid shots, which people are perfectly willing to accept…

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adamino
adamino
3 years ago

A perverse incentive of mandating restrictions once more, trammelling freedoms and normalising even further restrictions is herding the intelligent into inaction by discussing this issue or that issue, or whether x% is not the true figure as it is out of date.

Stop it.

All you need to know is that if this is being driven by incompetence, out they go and if it’s being driven by an agenda, out they go. It’s out they go whatever the rhetoric. You know it’s all wrong. You know it’s all unethical. You *know* it will lead to more restrictions. You know the vaccine pass will be linked to your CO2 travel footprint and your bank account via CBDCs, with 4IR just around the corner and UBI. Do something about it.

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago

I’m not sure that there’s much point in publishing verbatim rehearsals of MSM stories like this. WE know what the narrative is.

What needs more emphasis is facts exposing the bullshit of the cold that is the ‘Omicron variant’.

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186NO
186NO
3 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Or reading this and passing on:

https://doctors4covidethics.org/long-term-persistence-of-the-sars-cov-2-spike-protein-evidence-and-implications/

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