Broadcaster reveals: government told us to tow the line

Written by Tom Woods on . Posted in Current News

Yesterday our friend Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University brought to the public’s attention what he called an “explosive interview” with former Sky News and ITV executive Mark Sherman about the way the UK government pressured the media to portray COVID and the government’s response a particular way.

Sherman spoke of a “warning” issued to media outlets by the UK’s Office of Communications, or Ofcom, that said in effect, “Do not question the government line.” “I’ve never seen a warning from Ofcom like that,” Sherman noted.

You could feature opposing voices, the warning said, but your host must intervene if there’s any danger of “misinformation,” which of course means dissent from the government line.

“I think that warning affected all broadcasters,” said Sherman, who agreed that news hosts had been turned into representatives of the regime. “Rather than question the government, they became cheerleaders for the government…. They really were spreaders of panic and fear.”

“We’ve all been trained to give both sides and let the viewer decide. But clearly, all the way through the pandemic, only one side of the story was given.”

“It’s created an environment that will lead to the biggest assault on freedom of speech and democracy I’ve known in my lifetime.”

Sherman has a bit of the naivete of someone who’s genuinely old school and is thus surprised by the media’s behavior, but if we can look past that, it is a profoundly revealing interview.

The regime told broadcasters: don’t question us. Just like that.

At the same time, I find most broadcasters are all too happy to be toadies of their ruling regime, so Ofcom’s warning may have been superfluous.

In the United States, we know from emails that were released some weeks ago that National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins urged his colleagues to launch an all-out attack on dissenting scientists who denounced lockdowns as destructive and psychotic.

If that’s how professors at elite universities with every mainstream credential are treated, imagine what the lizard people think of you and me.

Please Donate Below To Support Our Ongoing Work To Expose The Lies About COVID19

PRINCIPIA SCIENTIFIC INTERNATIONAL, legally registered in the UK as a company incorporated for charitable purposes. Head Office: 27 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3AX. 

Share via

Trackback from your site.

Comments (9)

  • Avatar

    Photios

    |

    I think you mean “toe the line” – which means “line up in uniformity with all the others”.

    “Tow the line” suggests pulling it out of its “proper” place.

    Reply

    • Avatar

      MattH

      |

      ” Toe the line ” is an idiomatic expression meaning either to conform to a rule or standard, or to stand poised at the starting line in a footrace. Other phrases which were once used in the early 1800s and have the same meaning were ” toe the mark ” and ” toe the plank “.

      Idiom Tips: Tow the Line or Toe the Line?

      The phrase means “follow the rules or obey an authority.”. “Tow the line” is a misspelling based on “toe” and “tow” sounding the same, but “tow the line” is always an error.

      Reply

  • Avatar

    Howdy

    |

    Tow the Line.
    Normally, it means: Do what is right and proper. Your fair share.
    In this case, do as we tell you and stick to the plan.

    Reply

  • Avatar

    Doug Harrison

    |

    Well, Howdy, Photios is correct. The term “toe the line” is an old naval expression coming from the health inspection process that the Royal Navy employed at sea.

    Reply

  • Avatar

    Howdy

    |

    Not around here Doug. 2 different meanings dependant on the spelling of toe/tow. Nobody seems able to define where ‘toe the line’ even came from. The consensus on ‘tow the line’ is pulling something, usually barges.

    We use it to mean what I’ve allready stated, and even, ‘pull your weight’, or ‘all pull together’. Simple enough. Toe, doesn’t make sense to me apart from maybe a race.

    ““Tow the line” suggests pulling it out of its “proper” place.” Apply that to ‘tug o’ war’. You will see It doesn’t fit. The government wanted all to ‘pull’ in the same direction.

    It does appear there is at least some common ground between Photios’ description and mine.

    Reply

  • Avatar

    Mark Tapley

    |

    Hello Howdy, Harrison, and Photios:
    The MSM has been controlled for decades. Rothschilds employee J.P. Morgan bought the editorial rights to the top 20 newspapers in Jewmerica in order to propagandize the goyim for the long planned WW1. Today all the MSM in this country is controlled by the Black Rock – Vanguard (Zionist) investment interlock and ap. 90% everywhere else is controlled as well. notice that all countries of any consequence had their fake PCR tests ordered back in 2018, long before the fake virus was sprung. All of the countries jumped on board with the fake virus, like flipping a switch. Except the presidents of 4 African countries and one in the Caribbean. All of them subsequently died of “heart issues.”

    Don’t know where the phrase “toeing the line” originated but thats what you guys will all be doing when they cart you off to your high rise urban rat holes in Agenda 21. Toeing the line and counting your monthly carbon credits.

    Heres info. on the Black Rock interlock and a quick word from Joe and Nancy.
    https://www.bitchute.com/video/7DMlgBGbqDkr/


    https://blackjunction.com/post/300266_joe-biden-i-am-a-zionist-you-don-t-have-to-a-jew-to-be-a-zionist.html?lang=spanish

    Reply

  • Avatar

    Andy

    |

    The source article said ‘toe’ and I changed it to tow. A toe is what’s on the end of your foot. When you’re telling someone to conform, it’s tow, as in towing a vehicle.

    Reply

Leave a comment

Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
Share via