The mainstream-media bullshit detector
The mainstream-media bullshit detector was flashing just moments before the start of the plandemic.
The media was the core driver of the plandemic. Without the one-sided reporting and fear-mongering, without the censorship of alternative voices, the lockdowns, mass vaccinations and other interventions could not have been carried out, interventions which had a huge impact on our economy and society. The Covid-19 panic was started by journalists.
But why did so many fall for the media propaganda, including people who should know better?
That is a legitimate question, since in early 2020, just before the plandemic, the media did everything it could to kill off the last vestiges of trust it may have had. The propagandistic reporting on the Cititzenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and on the ensuing anti-CAA protests and violence by the mainstream media should have woken everybody up to the fact that the media cannot ever be trusted. It was as if the media was firing a huge warning shot, telling everybody that it had become a complete propaganda tool. At least for me, my bullshit detector started going into Red Alert mode right there, and just before the plandemic started.
With CAA I mean how the international mainstream media reported on the Indian CAA law (a law that is designed to help refugees from Afghanistan and Pakistan, countries where Hindu and Christian minorities are persecuted). The mainstream media in the US and UK pushed the narrative that this law was somehow "evil".
And this (morally repugnant) narrative was pushed literally just before the Covid narrative.
This should have been an eye opener that something with the mainstream media was off and that it cannot be trusted. Seriously - if this situation alone didn't tell you the media is propaganda you need to overhaul your BS detector
Imagine if you were living during World War II, and the New York Times and other "trusted" media outlets were suddenly telling you that any concern for persecuted Jews is evil, and that Jewish refugees fleeing persecution should not be admitted, as giving refugee to the persecuted Jews would anger the Germans and would lead to more anti-semitic riots (which the New York Times would whitewash and blame on the Jews).
How much trust would anybody have left in the New York Times?
That is essentially what happened just moments before the plandemic in early 2020.
In December 2019, the Parliament of India passed the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), which has the aim of providing a pathway to Indian citizenship for persecuted religious minorities from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan who are Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis or Christians, and arrived in India before 2015.
The proposed law was about refugees. It offered a fast-track to citizenship to those refugees who have faced religious persecution; these refugees who fled religious discrimination, persecution, kidnappings, forced conversions, forced marriages, rape, massacres and murder, at the hands of the Muslim majorities in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. The law does not discriminate except in the most commonsensical way: the victimizer should not receive the same preferential treatment as the victims.
The protests against the CAA act also sparked violence and riots in Delhi and elsewhere, and the international media's one-sided reporting ignored the atrocities against Hindus and mendaciously scapegoated Hindus for the violence. The anti-CAA protests were anti-Hindu, anti-Buddhist, anti-Sikh and anti-Christian, since these are the minorities that are persecuted and are facing genocide in these three countries.
Religious minorities from these three regions have faced some of the worst persecution, massacres, discrimination and genocide in the post World War II age (even before World War II, these regions were not exactly safe havens for minorities). Just the Bangladesh genocide of 1971 alone with an estimated death toll of three million ranks among the bloodiest chapters of the post world war period.
It is inconceivable that any human being who is not a genocidal monster would oppose the CAA, but some did. It is even more inconceivable that the media would oppose such a law, but that is what they did.
Vikas Saraswat reported:
Almost all of the media and some bodies in the West launched a calumnious attack on the Indian government over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the riots.
While Wall Street Journal notoriously fudged the testimony of victim Ankit Sharma's brother, others like BBC simply omitted the mention of the most gruesome killing in the Delhi riots.
The biggest mischief perpetrated by the media, however, was the narrative claiming the riots to be a ‘pogrom engineered by Hindus’.
For a riot started by Muslims after days of preparation, this atrocious lie, actually, turned the facts on their head.
Robert Spencer commented:
Even worse, the Wall Street Journal reported that the brother of one of the people who was killed in the riots, Indian official Ankit Sharma, was killed by a mob that was chanting “Jai Shri Ram.” This was implausible on its face, because Ankit Sharma was not a Muslim, but it perpetuated the media narrative that Hindus are entirely at fault for the violence – that is, it perpetuated that narrative until Ankit Sharma’s brother himself denied the Wall Street Journal report and accused the WSJ of lying.
Maybe the Journal was just following the lead of the Leftist Indian media outlet NDTV, which was caught having edited out of its riot coverage images of a pile of stones, ready to be used as weapons, on the rooftop of a mosque. Or on the other hand, it could be that NDTV figured that if the venerable Wall Street Journal could do it, so could they.
India’s largest TV show, Republic World, hotly debated the “twisted narrative of the foreign media”:
That was in March 2020, just before the lockdowns began. One could observe how the mainstream media suddenly switched from one fake narrative (on CAA) to another fake narrative (the Covid plandemic). In mass formation psychosis, it is important to let the audience focus on only one issue, so the CAA media propaganda was promptly replaced with the Covid propaganda.
One example of the propaganda: In an article on February 26, 2020, The Wall Street Journal published an article falsely quoting Ankur Sharma, brother of the murdered IB officer Ankit Sharma, saying that Hindu rioters chanting 'Jai Sri Ram' killed his brother. However in a subsequent fact-check by The Times Of India, Ankur refuted the claim and stated that they were lying. Ankur repeated that his brother was killed by Tahir Hussain in subsequent interviews to Times Now and Zee News. Journalist Rahul Pandita further provided video evidence of Ankit being dragged by a Muslim mob to Tahir Hussain's residence.
The CAA propaganda was a test run: the media needed to know if it could get away with blatant propaganda, and with outright censorship of other voices (the concerns of the persecuted minorities in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh), all in the name of a “good cause” (the “good cause” being the notion that Hindus are evil and should never ever be recognized as victims, and the notion that always and in every situation, Muslims are victims, and never the attacker).
The media needed to know if the propaganda could work, in 2020, before shifting to the Covid narrative. By March 2020, it knew that it worked. So the media shifted to the new narrative, and started censoring alternative voices, all in the name of a “good cause” (opposition to “vaccine hesitancy” and “public health”).
This was risky for the media. It is absolutely inconceivable that anybody at this point, after the CAA media propaganda, would continue to trust the media.
But many nevertheless did, witness the media-driven Covid panic.
Even if one is aware that the mainstream media is mostly just a propaganda machine, every once in a while one still needs to recalibrate the mass-media bullshit detector. The moment to crank up your BS detector came just in time. From December to March and beyond, the international mainstream-media reporting on CAA was a massive propaganda exercise, which deliberately ignored the actual reason for the act, viz. the very real and brutal persecution of minorities in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan. The mainstream media bullshit detector was flashing just before March 2020, when the media's attention started shifting to the Covid-19 narrative.
There is also a natural immunity to media lies. Perhaps the anti-CAA propaganda blitz was the vaccine we needed to make us immune against media lies. Just like viruses, the media kills. In February 2020, it killed the persecuted minorities of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh. A month later, it started to kill its audience.
The role of Big Tech
The WHO is working with Google to ensure that people get information from the UN health agency first when they search for information about the virus.
Social media is censoring alternative views, for example Youtube has censored videos from Rajiv Malhotra because they challenged the Big Pharma narrative
Here are some examples about the media bias and fake news on the CAA and Delhi riots of 2020 by the mainstream media:
U.S. Media Covers Up Muslim Atrocities Against Hindus in Reporting on Delhi Riots
Analyzing media’s Hinduphobia seen in its coverage of 2020 anti-Hindu Delhi riots