Australian news media during the coronavirus pandemic has increasingly become like Chinese propaganda.
Living in China for seven years made me attuned to national news that began coverage with positive news stories about the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, followed by positive news stories about Chinese state leaders, followed by positive news stories about the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), followed by positive news stories about ordinary Chinese people who perform heroic duties in accordance with Chinese Communist Party values.
Chinese national news never has a negative news story about the Chinese Communist Party. The same propagandist paradigm has slowly slunk into the Australian political landscape during the coronavirus pandemic.
Still a bit shaken by my confrontation over mandatory face masks with a hostile teenage lesbian staff member in Max Brenner, Imad and I exited into the courtyard. We carried our coffees down a few cement steps, seeking refuge opposite the water fountain feature.
Soon, we chatted about the coronavirus situation, COVID-19 vaccine mandates, and the confusion around the Chief Health Officer’s health directives for the unvaccinated and vaccinated in New South Wales.
We didn’t know whether an unvaccinated person could travel from southwestern Sydney to Wollongong beach, or what areas in Sydney we can legally travel to. It’s all confusing.
We were confused by all the COVID-19 rules and health directives.
Imad remarked, “My mom had to call the police a month or two ago to find out if she can go out somewhere or not.”
Fake News Media Broadcasters During COVID-19 Pandemic
We moved spots closer to the Narellan shopping center escalators so that Imad could have a smoke.
That’s where we discussed the vaccine mandates in Australia.
I inquired, “What news do you watch? Do you just watch the regular channels, Seven, Nine and Ten?”
He said, “Yeah. Sometimes I get Sky News.”
I sighed out in my mind before recovering.
“You need to stop watching mainstream news. They’re fake news. You really need to watch different news channels. Go on YouTube, pick a topic and search for different news,” I continued to tell my friend of thirty years.
I was surprised that Imad was in this shell. However, I can’t be too surprised, because that used to be me.
I cringe when I recall watching mainstream fake news. They paint bland stories about how the government did well today, how the vaccine roll-out was on track today, how all the sports stars lined up for their vaccines and were good today, how the obedient plebs were good today, and the government rewarded the good plebs with that today. The Australian government did nothing controversial today.
Then the mainstream fake news moves on to mention the bad protesters this, the violent protesters that, under-report “it was a small crowd, no more than a thousand protesters” when live-streamers recorded tens of thousands of anti-lockdown protesters. I grew accustomed panicking about COVID-19 case numbers, hearing that this criminal escaped a quarantine hotel, name, shame and demonize that business who served unvaccinated customers.
Every time I go back to the mainstream news, I am reminded of how they always try to manipulate and twist the minds of their listeners to make their audience believe in something that is not true.
There would be a news story that reports about something bad related to Dan Andrews. The mainstream news would skirt around all of the bad news related to Dan Andrews and instead focus on one little point of difference that mentions he actually was quite good.
Fake news.
It feels sickening to me now, but back then, I was a naive consumer.
Liberation From Fake News
Before I started to open my eyes about one month ago, all I did was get on the treadmill, and watch ABC News 24 while I jogged. What really turned it for me however was when I switched to Sky News.
Sky News Australia used to go on tirades about the Australian government. Alan Jones was the most vocal, belligerent reporter on Sky News Australia. Those tirades began to change me. You could say, Sky News groomed me to seek the truth.
Then, in mid-August 2021, explosive anti-lockdown protests in Melbourne broke out. Melbourne police pepper sprayed and shot rubber bullets at anti-lockdown protesters, inciting news commentators to rattle the cage. Amid the chaotic brinkmanship between government and news presenters, Alan Jones was suspiciously taken off air, purportedly for urgent surgery.
The day after the violent Melbourne anti-lockdown protests, Sky News came on air, and changed their narrative. All presenters changed their message to completely oppose the protests, all except Alan Jones, who remained silent, posting no new video commentary. It was strange.
Sky News Australia did a complete about face. They had gone from appearing to incite violence the day before, to calling the anti-lockdown protesters insane, and out of line.
That’s when I lost a lot of respect for Sky News. They became fake news.
Finding Anti-Lockdown Truth Broadcasters
Disgruntled with Sky News, I scoured the news broadcasting landscape for other live streamers and truth seekers.
That’s how I discovered Rebel News, the Aussie Cossack, Friendly Jordies, the Real Rukshan, Monica Smit, and several other broadcasters that live-streamed anti-lockdown protests in Melbourne.
I had radicalize from this consumer that just turns on the soap box captive to the local fake news channels, to someone who actively went out looking for the truth. I lost all trust for mainstream news media because independent reporters helped me to see the truth for myself.
When I found the truth, it was impossible to go back to being captive to that televised fake news.
Today I saw a published mainstream news article about vaccines being made available to kids between 5 to 11 years of age.
The article headline reads “Here is how the vaccines have been tested for kids.” In the entire 1,000 word article, there’s only one sentence about how it was tested on kids. They only had a small sample of a few thousand kids tested over six months in this study. That’s the entire length of duty of care that Pfizer had placed on the safety of kids. The rest of the news article talks about how effective the COVID-19 vaccine is for kids.
There’s another headline I read in an alternative satirical news story that was titled, “Pfizer claims vaccine will reduce average daily child COVID deaths from almost zero to almost zero.” That seems to cut through better.
Mainstream news is trying to paint a picture of kids all over the world dying of COVID-19. They report how these vaccines will be up to 93% effective against serious infection. But the reality is that almost none of these kids will ever see the inside of a hospital or have such a severe reaction to COVID-19 that they will die and pass away.
The mainstream news media doesn’t focus on facts. They just focus on spin. They focus on a small study without providing any insight into the study. They do not say whether it was peer-reviewed. They do not say who funded the study. They give no additional information other than it was a six-month study on kids who took a COVID-19 vaccine.
That single reported fact of the study lasting six months is the sole justification the mainstream news media gives that kids from 5 to 11 years old should take a COVID-19 vaccine that potentially could maim and kill them.
Corruption In Pharma, News, and Governments
That’s why I don’t listen to mainstream news anymore. These people are getting paid to provide cover for the government and for pharmaceutical companies. The people who own news corporations are billionaires. Pharmaceutical companies also are owned by billionaires. Governments have power over entire countries. They are in bed with news corporations, as well as being in the hands of pharmaceutical companies. There’s a whole level of corruption there that no one could ever infiltrate.
What we need are whistleblowers, someone who is in government that can step away from government to say, “Pfizer are corrupt. They’re trying to blackmail the government.”
MEPs in the European Union Parliament are coming out. Five members of the EU parliament stood in solidarity opposed to vaccine mandates. They showed a redacted document from the pharmaceutical company, which is a contract between the pharmaceutical company and the European Union.
These European Union Members of Parliament wanted to know what was in the contract, and why the countries of the European Union were spending billions of dollars in taxpayer money for a vaccine. Pfizer handed over a heavily redacted document. When the MEPs flicked through the pages for the world to see on live TV, it revealed that three quarters of Pfizer’s contract had been blacked out.
The members of the European Union Parliament asked, “What are they trying to hide?”
One member of Parliament said, “The difference between tyranny and democracy is that with tyranny, the government knows everything about you. But with democracy, people know everything about the government.”
Another member of Parliament said, “Healthy people are being deprived of their freedoms and their constitutional rights. They are not going to stop, my friends. They must be stopped. This is not going to stop by itself. It will spread. It will come to your door. It will blackmail your life, every piece of your life. This is why we continuously say no. We have our inalienable rights. That means that nobody can take them from us.”
Those words stuck with me, since hearing the speech by the European Union MEP today.
When Imad finished his smoke, we made our way up the escalators, for one final walk around Narellan shopping center.
We passed dozens of shops with “please show your vaccine passport” signs at their entrance. We both knew I am unvaccinated, and saw how I was treated when ordering coffees in Max Brenner earlier.
I told him, “If you really want to see what’s happening, don’t use your vaccine passport when you go into a store one time. Just don’t take it with you and see how they treat you instead.”
He gave me one of those side-eye looks as if to say, “You said something pretty worthy.”
Diary Of A Mad Chaos is a daily diary written from March 1996 until today, of which individual books and book series have been created, namely “The Lost Years” an exploration of young, entwined love, the “Wubao In China (猎艳奇缘)” book series which provides an extensive comparative analysis of the cultural differences between Eastern and Western societies, and the book titled “Foreigner (华人)” an exploration of race relations in Australia.
