Loading ...Pharma Has Mainstream Media in Its Pocket — Just Look What Happened With the ‘Bethesda Declaration’
A “gaggle of disgruntled” NIH employees recently pushed back against changes at the agency by issuing the “Bethesda Declaration,” in a “protest-like homage to the Great Barrington Declaration.” The declaration might have gone unnoticed — until mainstream media united to make it headline news.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) emerged from the COVID-19 era as among the most disreputable of all the agencies, a partner with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It was the home of Dr. Anthony Fauci, plus his wife, who was in charge of ethics.
There is poetry in how the scholar called a “fringe epidemiologist” by the previous agency heads is now in charge. His name is Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, previously a quietly productive professor at Stanford University with specializations in medical services and economics. He joined the ranks of the dissidents of lockdowns, masks and vaccine mandates, and was smeared the world over for it. Fast forward five years, and he is now charged with fixing up the agency that smeared him and restoring trust. His actions in the first weeks and months have been an inspiration.
Changing anything within a government agency always risks blowback. Sure enough, a gaggle of disgruntled workers, a few hundred at most out of 18,000, maybe 1%, while ignoring all the people who are thrilled, turned in a declaration of protest. Called the Bethesda Declaration, in a protest-like homage to the Great Barrington Declaration, it is haughty, overwrought, packed with self-important plural pronouns, filled with inaccuracies and driven by one single purpose: to keep getting paid.
The high-dudgeon gibberish was easy to dismiss when it was released at 8:00 a.m. EST on June 9. Surely it will have no traction at all. But then 8:01 a.m. came, and the mainstream media started an amplification campaign. It grew and grew to a dozen, then two dozen stories, almost all identical. This crescendoed until noon when the big guns came out, namely The New York Times.
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“The high-dudgeon gibberish was easy to dismiss when it was released at 8:00 a.m. EST on June 9. Surely it will have no traction at all. But then 8:01 a.m. came, and the mainstream media started an amplification campaign.
It grew and grew to a dozen, then two dozen stories, almost all identical. This crescendoed until noon when the big guns came out, namely The New York Times.
For proof, have a look:
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Stat News
ABC
Ars Technica
The Atlantic
The Washington Post
Reuters
Splinter
Boston Globe
AP
CNN
UPI/Yahoo
Forbes
PBS
NPR
The Globe and Mail
The Hill
The New York Times
All within hours of the release of the document in question, plus countless printings of all of them in every conceivable venue called the mainstream media. It’s hard to imagine what more blanket coverage would look like.
All of this was clearly coordinated, likely for weeks from the time that Bhattacharya took office. It was unfurled via the legacy media with the intention of creating shock and awe, amplifying the kvetching voices of a few at the expense of the obvious fury of the many that put Bhattacharya in that position to clean house.
Consider how the deck is stacked. All of this happened blitzkrieg-style within minutes and unfolded over hours, as those of us in the know watched with amazement at how the machinery runs in real time.”