Framing

It’s all in the framing

A prominent anti-vaccination figure who spoke at a rally against mandatory jabs in Australia has died on a Covid ward.

Anyone who objects to coercion or enforcement is now an anti-vaxxer. This is an outright lie, but it is a lie that is being repeated over and over, so people believe it. Goebbels would have been proud that his legacy is still here.

So the headline and the actualité differ somewhat. Here, then, is the headline:

Anti-vaxxer dies of Covid 2 weeks after being cheered for ‘no jabs’ rally speech

And the reality:

Aboriginal elder Max Dulumunmun Harrison, who was 85, died in Sydney’s Sutherland Hospital on Saturday morning from bronchial asthma and underlying complications.

The fact, then, is that an elderly man died of respiratory complications as happens to thousands of elderly people every year, so not covid. His point made at the rally stands. Indeed it would stand even if he had died of covid, but he didn’t, did he? What we have here is a lie being published in our esteemed mainstream media with the direct intent to deceive and propagate not only the scaremongering, but the ongoing demonisation of anyone who dares to challenge the big lie. While the reality is admitted in the text of the article, these creeps know full well that many will merely read the headline and move on, the seeds having been sown. They really are slimeballs.

9 Comments

  1. I did like this from the dead chap in question. Sentiments with which I wholly concur

    ‘There’s not a jail big enough to put the b******* in. Walk them in chains. That’s what needs to be done … These b******* … deserve to be drowned,” he said.‘

  2. It’s worse than you say:
    The headline reads “Anti-vaxxer dies of Covid 2 weeks after being cheered for ‘no jabs’ rally speech”
    The sub heading says he died “…from bronchial asthma linked to Covid and underlying complications”.
    The first couple of lines of the article says he died “…in a COVID ward…” “…from bronchial asthma and underlying complications”.

    Which to believe? I suppose “linked to COVID” is true, after all he was talking about COVID when he was taken ill so that definitely counts? [insert rolly eyes smiley here]

    • It’s possible that he tested positive, which means they automatically ignore the other ailments and record it as a covid death – much like PHE here. His position on vaccines is an irrelevance of course.

      • Anyone with any respiratory issue gets put straight into a Covid ward on arrival at hospital until they’ve been tested and the results come back negative.

        Of course the beds are just separated by curtains, so by the time the negative result comes in and they are moved, they’ve caught it anyway.

  3. I have been vaccinated and I am also rabidly against compulsory vaccinations. I’m also opposed to any other kinds of coercion in this matter. The two things are not mutually exclusive.

  4. The article aren’t even trying to hide the propaganda element. There was a piece on the BBC the other day with the headline of something along the lines of ‘They come in and ask for the vaccine but its too late’. The actual article was mainly about the non-covid pressures on the NHS, it even had stats that showed the covid use of NHS capacity was about 5%, far less than this time last year, and massively outweighed by the non-covid use at 80%+. The example patient they followed was an elderly woman who had a heart attack (of course the possibility her heart attack could be related to her having taken a ‘vaccine’ that comprises a known blood clotting agent was never considered). Other than the opening sentence and few anecdotal quotes from a nurse about people being admitted and asking for the vaccine, it was an entirely different article to the headline. But they had to shoehorn the fear factor into the top line, just to give the casual reader the ‘Be afraid, get jabbed’ message.

    • Did they manage to squeeze the climate emergency in there as well? It seems to be in every story I read on the BBC these days.

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