BBC Journalist John Darvall Comes Clean… “Believe Nothing You Read Or Watch”

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BBC Journalist John Darvall Comes Clean… “Believe Nothing You Read Or Watch”

November 11th, 2015

Awake Goy

John Darvall is a BBC radio host who recently had an epiphany over
the state of journalism, after realizing the industry he’d served so
well wouldn’t think twice about screwing him over for a good story. ~ Sophie McAdam

Darvall, who hosts a show on BBC radio Bristol, has just lost his
daughter. Polly was 22, and died in a tragic car accident on Halloween.
Since he works for the BBC,
Darvall’s grief became public, and he agreed to give an interview.

The
report was full of inaccuracies and mistakes which compounded his loss,
and caused huge problems in the family.

‘This poor piece of journalism made Tuesday probably the worst day of
this whole episode so far. This includes seeing our dead daughter in a
hospital mortuary just 12 hours after she was killed,’ Darvall wrote in a
moving blog post.

‘Newspapers have contacted me and provided appallingly written
articles, which I have had to change, ‘polish’ or make actual sense of.
Other papers have published articles using my personal relationship as
‘the in line’, when this is NOT the story but, at best, just a very
small part of the story.’

Darvall goes on:

Those who know me well will know that I never, ever
wanted to be the story, just to tell or share the story, as a
journalist, correctly.

I have never wanted to be on TV, I don’t want to
be known, perhaps just be known of, to do my job well and to help people
if I can and to get to the truth for others.

However, he’s now seen the light: ‘truth’ and the mainstream media
don’t go together, after all. Darvall suggests there’s no future for
his industry, suggesting that the Internet will eventually take over as
the primary source of finding out about current affairs:

‘The
way we all consume news is changing,’ he writes. ‘The way we share news
has changed and will continue to change at a faster pace. This week TV
and newspapers have proven to me why they are not the future of news.

If
they can’t even get their facts right, be trusted with clear
information and then report it accurately is it any wonder that we are
all turning to Facebook, Twitter and other internet sources for our news
and information?

The internet allows us to come to our own conclusions
by checking our own facts. We really can’t trust the traditional outlets
to do it right or properly.

I write this as a father who has lost a
daughter. I write this as a journalist who loved his work but can now
clearly see why so many have lost faith in his profession and
traditional media.

They, we and I have brought this on ourselves.’

Finally, Darvall leaves us with two pieces of advice:

‘Trust nothing you read or watch,’ he tells us, and
possibly the most important thing of all: ‘Love your children and loved
ones. Properly love them. Tell them every day, make sure they know that
you love them regardless of what might be happening. Nothing is more
important than that.’

Well said, sir.

Darvall’s blog post comes in the wake of two (much bigger)
‘shock-horror’ admissions by insiders that the mainstream media is
entirely fake: a German journalist recently spilled
the beans on how media professionals are nothing more than propaganda
writers who deliberately lie to the people and help intelligence
agencies push for war.

In another story that went viral around the world, a model who built
her career on making herself look beautiful for Instagram photos had
what can only be described as a total breakdown, quitting the ‘business’
of social media and blowing the whistle on how shallow and fake the
entire industry is in her final YouTube video ever.

(Note: embedded video now fixed). Both of these are well worth watching and sharing with everyone you know!

Could 2015 be the year that the masses wake up and see that the Emperor is wearing no clothes? We certainly hope so…

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November 8, 2015 – KnowTheLies