Uit de nieuwsbrief van Planet Waves FM:
How to Spot Sham Journalism
We live in a time when anyone can pretend to be a journalist. Just start a blog and write PRESS in Sharpie on a slip of cardboard, and you’re ready to go. However, there are some rules, if you think journalism should be honest and fair.
Reading Watson’s latest article, I noticed that the Baileys are referenced many times, but never quoted. The writer accused them of medical and scientific malpractice, and of intentionally deceiving the public for profit — but he never wrote to them and asked them for comment. He never called them. He has never written to them or spoken with them, ever.
Anyone about to be accused of wrongdoing in a published article has the right to offer their best defense — prior to publication, and to have that printed. Any writer who does not honor basic rule has an agenda other than telling a straight story. If the person being written about in an article is not
directly quoted by the writer, that invalidates the article as journalism. It is by definition propaganda.
In the spirit of fair play, I wrote to
Country Squire’s editors about this omission, and after five days have yet to receive a response. Watson is also the editor-in-chief of another publication, which suggests he should be well-versed in the ground rules of journalism.
Round ‘em up! Final scene from the film
Casablanca, featuring Humfrey Bogart.
Rounding Up All the Usual Suspects
Watson has another problem. He claims to be a biochemist. Normally this would be an asset. It would allow him to be conversant in the technology involved. It might allow him to help the public undersand what it’s about.
Yet the arguments being made by the Baileys, Cowan, Kaufman and “the usual suspects” (as he calls them, missing the irony of that quote from the film
Casablanca) relate to molecular biochemistry. This is a topic that you probably never learned about when you were dissecting frogs in high school bio class.
Yet Watson, who based on his qualifications should understand the technical details, has not one word to say on this topic. And it is
the whole topic. He makes it seem like it’s all a matter of opinion — that is, about “what you believe in,” and who can yell the loudest.
So either he does not understand the issues, or he is pretending not to.
He must have heard somewhere that journalists are supposed to quote people. Instead of the Baileys themselves, he picks Daniel Patrick Moynihan, once a United States senator from New York State, who famously said: “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”
So according to Watson, even if there are two sides of the story, you’re not going to hear about the other side from him; or from anyone. Opposing facts are not allowed.
That and little else is the essence of the situation we are all facing with the “covid” issue and the wider virus and vaccine issues. Sure, if you leave out the facts, it all seems like either public officials are being truthful, or it’s all an endless matter of opinion. State a fact, and one is frequently deplatformed.
Country Squire magazine goes after "the usual suspects" — its list of alleged virus deniers. What's going on inside this controversy you may not have heard about? Planet Waves FM reports.
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