Corporate media has long since abandoned its role as fourth estate watchdogs digging up bones to expose the truth or inform and protect the public. But they like to give each other awards to further their self-delusion.
Or maybe they are. The Wikipedia definition reads like this emphasis mine.
Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the “news of the day” and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy.
That’s at least somewhat accurate, but that’s not how they’d describe their role. The Union Leader, the object of this piece, says, “There is nothing so powerful as the Truth.” And there’s nothing in that tagline that suggests you must find or report it—the truth. Or that anyone in your industry needs to consider it when handing out awards. The Union Leader (UL) had scooped up seventeen awards at the New England Newspaper & Press Association’s 2022 Better Newspaper Competition.
I laughed out loud when I read that the UL was so well regarded when it comes to being a better newspaper, but that’s not much of an endorsement for the rest of the “news” papers. All of whom have failed miserably at their stated purpose – especially when it comes to the Pandemic response.
Little to nothing outside the box of approved narratives. I found a national wire piece from Reuters about CDC Director Rochelle Wolensky stepping down, but not her admission that the COVID vaccine can spread the virus. I couldn’t find it, but that seems newsworthy to me given all the calls by Democrats (for example) to reserve any return to normal life for passport-wielding recipients of the ineffective “vaccine.”
Talk about a target-rich environment for potential comments. Why did the alleged haters at GraniteGrok have the science right a year before the CDC or nearly anyone in your party? No partisan worries; there were likely a few “Republicans” who made the same mistake. Safe and effective. You could start with the Governor, his Director of Public Health; wait, we’ll get you a list.
But no, the folks in the news business had other news to almost get right. The closest you’ll get to anything outside what we call the approved narratives is this. Christopher Thomson writes a column called Close the Deal. It has musings that suggest things could have gone better. No sh!t. I expect you might also find some off-the-plantation syndicated musings from John Stossel. But nothing by anyone who might get an award from the New England Newspaper & Press Association.
Tens of thousands of experts and countless research papers have emerged dismissing, debunking, and disproving every aspect of the response to COVID, from masks to distancing, to lockdowns, t remote learning, to childhood risk (there was none) to the COVID injections and their lack of both effectiveness and safety.
Search The Union Leader for Vaccine+Safety, and you get garbage results.
Pfizer’s own documents clearly show known risks that undermined the safe and effective narrative aped by politicians and media over a year after a judge forced them out into the public. A journalist would have chased that data and reported the details, at the very least, in a manner that would allow Granite Staters to make their own decisions. But you won’t find any reporting on that anywhere in New Hampshire’s so-called professional media.
But congratulations on winning 17 awards for being a better newspaper while failing to provide even balanced coverage regarding what may be the most significant scientific fraud in human history after the political “cure” for so-called “global warming.”
