I have been asked why I often comment on BBC's reporting of health news. Is it really any worse than the reporting of other news agencies? The answer is 'No' - it is no worse. But the BBC is a public service broadcaster. It is paid by licence fee payers, ordinary citizens, and it is NOT funded by Big Business, and Big Pharma in particular.
Most other news agencies ARE dependent on the largesse of big advertisers. So advertising pharmaceutical drugs is important to their survival, and drug companies can threaten their viability if they refuse to spend their money on 'critical' advertising outlets. This does not make these uncritical news agencies any better than BBC News, but it does provide a reason for their support and promotion of dangerous drugs and vaccines, and their lack of interest in patient safety.
BBC News has no such excuse. They take every opportunity to promote Big Pharma drugs and vaccines, usually without any mention of the dangers. And they regularly attack homeopathy and other safer and more effective alternative therapies quite gratuitously. As a licence payer myself, and as someone who would suffer from the drugs and vaccines they tirelessly promote if I were to believe what they tell me, I object to the 'fake news' they regularly promote.
These are the blogs I have written over the last fews years about BBC News coverage of health issues, these being the main ones. Do have a read by clicking on each one!
April 2012. Diabetes and Statin drugs.
May 2012. BBC News whitewashes Statin Drugs
July 2012. BBC News. A sudden conversion to honesty?
November 2012. BBC News supports drug taking (Ritalin) to enhance work performance!
January 2013. Breast Cancer and Tamoxifen. BBC meekly announces 'great news'.
August 2014. Aspirin and the Media (BBC News)
September 2015. Autism, the MMR Vaccine, and Media Censorship.
December 2015. The refusal of BBC News to report important health information
April 2017. BBC News. Advertising another dangerous drug for the pharmaceutical industry.
April 2017. BBC News. A statement on Vaccine Policy.
June 2017. Statin drugs going out of favour? (BBC News promoting a new vaccine).
As more people are discovering the dangers of pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines, often by tragic personal experience, as more patients are turning to safer medical therapies, as conventional medicine gradually dies, and bankrupt nations, through its inability to deal with epidemic levels of chronic disease (if not actually creating them in the first place!) the craven attitude of BBC News needs to be highlighted. The craven and unquestioning attitude of the BBC to pharmaceutical drugs, it's total failure to investigate and question the serious health issues that have confronted us throughout this time, needs to be a matter of record.
BBC News, and the mainstream media generally, have a lot of questions to answer, questions that will become increasingly important to people as the real harm caused by pharmaceutical drugs become obvious, and conventional medicine become completely indefensible?
So I will continue through this blog to castigate BBC News (and the rest of the mainstream media) as a promoter of 'fake' health news. Hopefully, in time, many more people will want to know why their 'public service broadcaster' has failed, if not actually refused, to tell them the truth.
Most other news agencies ARE dependent on the largesse of big advertisers. So advertising pharmaceutical drugs is important to their survival, and drug companies can threaten their viability if they refuse to spend their money on 'critical' advertising outlets. This does not make these uncritical news agencies any better than BBC News, but it does provide a reason for their support and promotion of dangerous drugs and vaccines, and their lack of interest in patient safety.
BBC News has no such excuse. They take every opportunity to promote Big Pharma drugs and vaccines, usually without any mention of the dangers. And they regularly attack homeopathy and other safer and more effective alternative therapies quite gratuitously. As a licence payer myself, and as someone who would suffer from the drugs and vaccines they tirelessly promote if I were to believe what they tell me, I object to the 'fake news' they regularly promote.
These are the blogs I have written over the last fews years about BBC News coverage of health issues, these being the main ones. Do have a read by clicking on each one!
April 2012. Diabetes and Statin drugs.
May 2012. BBC News whitewashes Statin Drugs
July 2012. BBC News. A sudden conversion to honesty?
November 2012. BBC News supports drug taking (Ritalin) to enhance work performance!
January 2013. Breast Cancer and Tamoxifen. BBC meekly announces 'great news'.
August 2014. Aspirin and the Media (BBC News)
September 2015. Autism, the MMR Vaccine, and Media Censorship.
December 2015. The refusal of BBC News to report important health information
April 2017. BBC News. Advertising another dangerous drug for the pharmaceutical industry.
April 2017. BBC News. A statement on Vaccine Policy.
June 2017. Statin drugs going out of favour? (BBC News promoting a new vaccine).
As more people are discovering the dangers of pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines, often by tragic personal experience, as more patients are turning to safer medical therapies, as conventional medicine gradually dies, and bankrupt nations, through its inability to deal with epidemic levels of chronic disease (if not actually creating them in the first place!) the craven attitude of BBC News needs to be highlighted. The craven and unquestioning attitude of the BBC to pharmaceutical drugs, it's total failure to investigate and question the serious health issues that have confronted us throughout this time, needs to be a matter of record.
BBC News, and the mainstream media generally, have a lot of questions to answer, questions that will become increasingly important to people as the real harm caused by pharmaceutical drugs become obvious, and conventional medicine become completely indefensible?
- how many people have taken pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines because they have not been aware of the dangers?
- how many people have taken conventional medication for illness for years in the belief that it would make them better - because no-one has ever questioned this assumption?
- how many people have suffered the side effects, adverse reactions, and really the illness and disease, that are being caused by pharmaceutical medicine?
- how many of these people can rightly accuse the mainstream media that they are seriously ill, or that their friends and relatives have died, because the media has failed to question or investigate the dishonest and fraudulent practices of the pharmaceutical industry?
So I will continue through this blog to castigate BBC News (and the rest of the mainstream media) as a promoter of 'fake' health news. Hopefully, in time, many more people will want to know why their 'public service broadcaster' has failed, if not actually refused, to tell them the truth.
