Why Can’t We Talk About It?
December 9, 2022
Weird times indeed. … More Why Can’t We Talk About It?
Tag: Sharyl Attkisson
Astroturf
November 13, 2022
Award winning investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson: “they’re cueing us to the truth by what they try to hide”. … More Astroturf
This Caravan of Love
February 9, 2022
Anti-vaccine was a phrase unheard of when I first started covering vaccine safety issues, when I was assigned to do that for CBS many years ago. That suddenly emerged on the landscape, that anybody who asks a logical, rational question about the safety of a medicine for an individual was suddenly portrayed as anti-vaccine. That’s … More This Caravan of Love
This is Extremely Dangerous to Our Democracy
December 27, 2021
Investigative journalist, NY Times bestselling author and five-time Emmy Award winning television presenter Sheryl Attkisson gave testimony to the Corona Ausschuss recently. The topic of discussion was “astroturfing”. A term initially coined in the political sphere, astroturfing means the creation of a movement orchestrated by corporate or political interests, designed to appear as though it … More This is Extremely Dangerous to Our Democracy
Owning Fear and Fact Checks
October 28, 2021
Laura Dodsworth authored Sunday Times bestseller The State of Fear: how the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic. She spoke on talkRADIO yesterday about the Nudge Unit, a taxpayer-funded team of behavioural scientists who are now a limited company, whose role is to ensure public compliance with “tricky public policies”. The UK government’s … More Owning Fear and Fact Checks
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