Two weeks ago, musician Neil Young asked Spotify to remove his music off their platform over what he called the spread of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation by Joe Rogan on Spotify.
I’m not here today to defend Rogan or point out Young’s hypocrisy.
In this column, I want to show how the mainstream media withholds information and facts about COVID-19 and other subjects that do not adhere to their agenda.
By filtering or withholding information from their viewers and readers, they keep the public ignorant.
Last week Johns Hopkins University released a report on a meta-analysis of different studies on the effects of lockdowns in the U.S. and Europe during COVID.
Their conclusion: “Lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.”
Going against all Dr. Anthony Fauci and other politicians have told us, this breaking news should have been above the fold in major newspapers across the country and led the nightly news.
Two days after it was released, this study by John Hopkins was ignored by the following: CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, Reuters, USA Today, Axios and Politico, according to search results.
Many of these same outlets chastised governors in red states — especially Ron DeSantis in Florida — for their lack of restrictions during the pandemic.
They now have egg on their face they wish to keep hidden from the public.
The study, entitled “A Literature Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Lockdowns on COVID-19 Mortality,” concluded that limiting gatherings may have increased COVID-19 mortality.
In addition, the unintended consequences of lockdowns resulted in more deaths from domestic violence, suicides and drug overdoses. Also, we cannot forget the harm caused to children by school closings.
Realizing this, the Scandinavian country of Denmark recently announced COVID no longer poses a threat and is ending nearly all restrictions.
Another failure of left-wing media was its complete disregard, in the beginning, of the hypotheses that COVID-19 originated in a lab in Wuhan, China.
While unproven, the theory should have been investigated more by the media. Instead, they dismissed it as a conspiracy, attacking its supporters.
Last year Apoorva Mandavilli, a health reporter for the New York Times, tweeted that the “lab leak” coronavirus theory had “racist roots” and was not “plausible.”
One of the possible reasons for the media rejecting this theory was that it was pushed by Donald Trump when he was President.
In a report last week on FoxNews.com, scientists from the U.S., Britain, Germany, Israel and Australia revealed how they were ignored and even silenced when they brought up the lab leak theory.
Research papers showing the possibility of a lab leak were rejected.
Lord Matt Ridley, author of the book “Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19,” was quoted on Fox News that funding was also a motive for silence. “Senior scientists were quietly saying to me, ‘We think you’re right that it does need to be taken seriously, but we don’t say so because the funding agencies might give us a hard time.’”
In the past year, the lab-leak theory went from a conspiracy theory to highly likely.
All of us grow and learn from the spread of information. In the 15th century, Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of the Gutenberg press revolutionized printing, making books available to the masses for the first time.
The introduction of the Internet in the last century put the world’s wisdom and information at the fingertips of anyone with a computer.
Increasingly the liberal media, along with their accomplices at Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, restrict the information they disagree with.
I predict that the next study that will shock the world — and be ignored by national news organizations — is that masks were of little to no use in stopping the spread of the coronavirus.
