Time To Get Vaccinated…Against Propaganda

“To these people, lockdown has been a raging success. To everybody else, it has been an unmitigated disaster.”

On April 24th, London saw what was probably one of the largest civil rights marches in recent memory as anti-lockdown protestors gathered under the banner, Unite For Freedom. I say “probably” because I have seen reports estimating the attendance anywhere between “several thousand” and “hundreds of thousands.” But I honestly could not say for sure because there appears to be (and have been) next to no interest in the event from the British media.

In the hours immediately following the march, the BBC’s top story was an editorial masquerading as news encouraging younger people to get the vaccine, and Sky News decided to run with professional footballers boycotting social media as the most pressing issue of the day. Even in researching this article a week later, pretty much the only “news” I could find was that eight police officers had been injured, none seriously. Or, in other words, it was a peaceful protest, unlike some recent others that come to mind, and over which the British media positively fawned.

It might seem odd that in an allegedly free market for journalism, a massive civil rights protest would fail to be an attractive subject for reporting in its own right, but especially if absolutely none of your journalistic peers are covering it, giving you the exclusive scoop. But I have come to think recently that this view is tragically naïve. We are in the early stages of the most intense and exhaustive propaganda campaign any Brits have likely ever experienced. Although I can only speak to my personal experience in the United Kingdom, Merion West readers elsewhere may well be in a similar position.