Editor’s note: I have regained control of the website, but there’s still some work to do. Monday memes have been preempted, but there is a version on my Substack (I wasn’t expecting to have access yet).
One of the things that sets GraniteGrok apart, and no, I don’t mean getting hacked and not updated all weekend (sigh), was our independence from the political-pharma cabal. If you look in the rearview mirror and then at the reporting since, you won’t find much in the way of an apology for how wrong they all got it or how right anyone else was.
We’re not looking for praise, nor do we expect the local or national media to apologize. You do you; it’s good for our business model. But it would go a long way toward repairing some of the damage you did if you at least tried to show your readers that you were not bought and paid for. That political pressure or advertisers who help pay your operating costs aren’t controlling the editorial levers.
COVID isn’t the only example, but it is easily the most glaring. And while I appreciate you allowing me a monopoly on the truth, reporting on the Gabbard revelations about Fauci, Wuhan, and the IC coverup, all of which informed the lies you shared, often with enthusiasm for the tyranny and disdain for anyone who challenged it, would help begin to repair the damage you all did to your credibility.
It made big news outside the Handmaiden media, but big networks and news programs have completely boycotted the story.
The same news organizations that helped cover up the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, now overwhelmingly believed to have come from a leak from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, are still refusing to come clean. On liberal social media platform Bluesky, they’re still talking about wet markets and pangolins.
Take a look at your local media, and you’ll likely find the same thing.
I did a Cook Tour of Granite State outlets this morning, including some “center-right” sites, and you won’t find the story anywhere. Is it because they never apologized in the first place, or are they still in on the scam?
“[Fauci] blatantly lied to Congress under oath during his 2024 testimony,” she said. Then she added, “Dr. Fauci funded dangerous gain-of-function coronavirus research linked to Big Pharma and their pursuit of universal vaccines, worth trillions of dollars.” Later: “Dr. Fauci became the nation’s pandemic pundit, and he publicly pushed lies, disinformation, and censorship using every platform available.”
According to the same reporting, if you are in the news or commentary business, you didn’t even have to turn a page to get eye-popping, click-generating headlines.
From page one, they knew Wuhan was ripe for an “accidental release” of the very virus they were working on, which, when it “escaped,” was SARS CoV2. Engineered in a lab. Leaked from that lab. And this was not only not a secret to insiders but known, so when it did escape, the only possible reason to insist it came from a wet market was to hide US involvement, and Fauci’s, in particular.
Mr. “I am the science” funded the research with millions of your tax dollars and then lied to your face for years in exchange for glowing praise, applause, endless media appearances, a lot more money (I expect), and a backdated blanket pardon because he had lied to everyone, including Congress.
It adds fuel to the farcical fire that illuminated the response.
All while managing to get the IC to keep its mouth shut about what it knew. And not just more than a dozen intelligence agencies. The fourth estate isn’t telling the tale either. Gabbard’s 1,600 pages of deep state inside intel is about as interesting to them as a pro-gun rally in front of the New Hampshire State House. They’d cover a three-person counterprotest (one of the three is an infant in a stroller), but not the hundreds of people who showed up to celebrate a natural, constantly under attack by a party that advocates violent resistance and attacks on political opponents they’d like disarmed.
Not a column inch.
We have to suggest that the best reason for that is that it would require mentioning truths they failed to cover, and issuing apologies they don’t want to make, at the expense of fiscal relationships or access they think they need to remain relevant.
Again, we appreciate the monopoly on the truth, or at least the chance to encourage genuine debate in search of it, by providing information others refuse to publish.
Here’s a link to the ODNI page.
Here are the report links. There are redactions, but what you can see is quite damning.
COVID-19 Release Index
COVID-19 Release Part 1
COVID-19 Release Part 2
COVID-19 Release Part 3
COVID-19 Release Part 4
Previously published on my Substack.
