Former BBC and ITV reporter, Anna Brees, interviewed top media man, Mark Sharman, on 31 December 2021.
Sharman says the mainstream media has lost its 'moral compass.' It has failed in its public duty to investigate and report fairly on all sides of the Covid story. Insted, it has mirrored the narrative of the politicians and their tame scientists.
He issues a stark warning as to journalists, saying their Failure to ask penetrating questions and to call for open debate at this most important time in our history. will be judged accordingly.
MARK: "I feel as though... freedom of speech, the impartiality of reporting, the honest debate, is all under attack... On the one hand you've got Big Tech through YouTube and Facebook and Twitter... they are cancelling people and they're using these terrible terms, 'misinformation,' 'conspiracy theorists,' just to dismiss anything that doesn't fit the the narrative... Britain is the cradle of democracy... we're on a march towards the death of it and it's a death by strangulation of free speech and that's, as a journalist of 50 odd years, that is a real concern to me.
Unfortunately, mainstream media is the other side of the pincer movement... they're also only telling one side of a story over COVID... There appears to be a worldwide narrative and mainstream media has signed up to it... They're acting as government cheerleaders and that's not the role... of mainstream media or any journalist. Our role is to question... They should be questioning it and holding them into account, not helping bring the population to heel, which is what's been happening...
The government has spent about 500 million pounds so far on COVID advertising and most of that has gone to broadcasting and mainstream media. it's hard, I think, in current times, to go against that. It offends principles but I think that's probably a reality...
It was a simulated event which, funnily enough, was based on a Coronavirus outbreak from China. It was called 'Event 201' and it was a 'simulated global Coronavirus pandemic exercise'... organised by the World Economic Forum, The Bill Gates Foundation and John Hopkins Centre for Health Security.
Now they advised governments all over the world on what they should do and included in that was this advice: flood the media with fast, accurate and consistent information, while the media companies themselves should commit to ensuring that authoritative messages are prioritised and that false messages are suppressed, including through the use of technology.
Now who decides what's false? And this is at the core of my argument on everything about this counselling and this misinformation. I mean, who is deciding what's information? You have some truly world-class medical, scientific experts who are arguing against the narrative and they're not being listened to! In fact, worse than that, they've been silenced!
You know, Dr. Robert Malone actually invented the rMNA vaccine and he's spoken up to warn about some of the things that may develop from it and he's been cancelled on Twitter! I mean, this is outrageous! You know, you were just cancelling people's opinions for the sake of the narrative and, you know, maybe the clue is in that simulation that happened just before the pandemic started.
But Ofcom too... OfCom has instructed broadcasters to be alert to health claims related to the virus which may be harmful, medical advice which may be harmful, accuracy or material misleading us in programs in relation to the virus, or public policy relating to it. Well, I'm sorry but that's that is OfCom telling broadcasters, 'don't listen to other arguments,' you know, they're closing down debate! You know, it just isn't right, it's a dereliction of duty, in my opinion, of journalists and broadcasters and newspapers, not to investigate both sides of a story.
ANNA: "Why are you speaking out now, Mark?"
MARK: "I think, in the end, it was because of the demonisation of people who chose not to have a vaccine. You know, it's internationally accepted that you can choose whether or not to have medication put into your body and that is being ignored. And what's happening around the world is, you know, this rejection of body autonomy, it is scary. I mean, what we're seeing in Austria, you know, from February, you can be fined and then imprisoned if you're not vaccinated! In Australia they've started internment camps, for goodness sake! For people who haven't been vaccinated or people who they even think haven't been vaccinated... They shot their own citizens with rubber bullets in Austria! They're putting them in prison in Holland! They shot their own citizens just across the water from here with real bullets and injured citizens!Well said, Mark.
What would happen here if that had happened on the streets of Sheffield or Manchester, or London? How would we have reported that because the media seems to have lost its moral compass... Those demonstrations in Holland and Belgium were described by our press here as mob rules! You know, these are people just making a point about basic freedoms...
We've lost sight of the fact that our freedoms are being eaten away, you know, this new norm, it's just, you can't accept it because what comes next, you know, we're being conditioned to a position... It's the same here in the UK. There have been several what have been described as anti-vaxx marches in and around the country, particularly in London. They're not necessarily anti-vax at all, actually. Quite a lot of the people on the marches have been vaccinated, they're just against mandatory vaccines and vaccine passports.
I went to investigate one last week and two weeks ago. There were problems, there were tens of thousands of people and they were ordinary people. They were intelligent people, they were families. There were all kinds of ages, of ethnic background, all kinds of ordinary people and it was a generally peaceful, good humored march through london. There was one little skirmish involving maybe one or two people at the start and that's what got reported. 'Violence on anti-vaxx rally!' It's not an anti-vaxxer rally and it was, in general, very peaceful.
The flip side of that is these protests in England have hardly been reported on ny the BBC or Sky or anywhere, and yet both of those channels go big on climate change protest marches because they're pet subjects of theirs. And that's again what, to me, is not aceptable. You can't pick and choose which protest you're going to report on just because you agree, or just because that's one of your pet projects. It just isn't right.
So it's biased. I mean, it's just biased reporting...
No one, to my knowledge, has ever talked to these anti-vaxxers on these marches...
It's important that the main broadcasters actually start looking at some of the other side of things. There are some serious serious papers being done by, you know, top level world scientists and they're looking at the data and they're looking at the results and they are saying that there are dangers in this vaccine and they've got the figures to prove it, and they're worried about what might happen now.
I think that if you're going to vaccinate children, I should say here I'm not a scientist, I'm not a doctor and I'm not taking sides, my only argument is, please tell us both sides of the story!
I'm looking at this from a media point of view, but if there is this scientific evidence, and it's fairly convincing, it should be being discussed. Because any parent, in particular, who's wanting to decide whether or not to vaccinate their children - I don't, personally, think children need a vaccine, because they don't suffer from the from the virus particularly, and probably won't pass it on - but the point is, if you're making that decision, it should be an informed decision! And they're not being informed! Because they're not being made aware of some of the things that have gone wrong and are going wrong."
Thank you for telling it how it is.
The first top man from the mainstream media to do so. (Discounting Nigel Farage and Neil Oliver etc. at GB News - which isn't quite 'mainstream' yet)
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