Russell Brand: UK Journalists claim Covid news censored to create ‘one official narrative’
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – In a new video, Russell Brand highlights a group of 26 UK journalists who joined forces to protest the “censorship” and “fear-mongering” on Covid that’s being peddled by the mainstream media and Big Tech.
Do you think you’ve been told the whole truth about the pandemic? Do you think healthy debate and conversation are being encouraged — or stifled?
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Russell Brand asks those questions and more in a new video blasting the mainstream media for censoring information on Covid-19.
Brand points to a group of 26 UK journalists who joined forces to protest the “censorship” and “fear-mongering” they say mainstream media and Big Tech have been peddling since the start of the pandemic.
The group, Holding the Line: Journalists Against Covid Censorship, criticized the media, according to Press Gazette, for not reporting on alternative Covid treatments, vaccine adverse reactions, the true cost of government lockdowns, and a lack of scrutiny of PCR testing.
Covid-19 news is being “censored” to create “one official narrative,” the Holding the Line journalists said. One of the group’s members, Tony Gosling, a former BBC radio journalist, told Press Gazette:
“Our main concern is that there’s a mighty lobby behind many of these Covid measures, including treatment, lack of treatment, and vaccines, obviously, but there isn’t much of a lobby in the other direction. And I think most of us feel that our employers of various sorts have not been representing both sides.”
“Stifling healthy conversation and debate” is not a solution, said Brand, who added:
“I’ve always believed we should be allowed to talk about things and express a variety of opinions. Nobody can claim, from a religious, political or any ideological perspective to have sole exclusive access to truth.”
The journalists said the media’s reporting on Covid-19 in the UK and worldwide is “unprecedented.” The group said: “There’s only been one official narrative played out in the mainstream media, and that has not changed over time”.
“There’s only been one ‘scientific truth’ allowed to be discussed: the one endorsed by worldwide governmental regulatory bodies, even that has been very selective. This has given the public a distorted view of the truth which has been highly damaging.”
RUSSEL BRAND
Russell Edward Brand is an English comedian, actor, radio host, writer, and activist.
Since guest editing an edition of the British political weekly New Statesman in 2013, Brand has become known as a public activist and campaigner and has spoken on many political and cultural issues, including wealth inequality, addiction, corporate capitalism, climate change, and media bias.
In 2014, Brand launched his political-comedy web series The Trews, released a book entitled Revolution, and began work on a documentary about financial inequality with Michael Winterbottom.
Over the course of his career, Brand has been the subject of frequent media coverage and controversy among other things for his two-year marriage with singer Katy Perry.
He has incorporated many of his controversial public antics into his comedic material. A biographical documentary called Brand: A Second Coming was released in 2015.
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