A Force to Be Reckoned With
How independent media has become a force to be reckoned with as it rises from the ruins of the legacy media.
Written by WCH correspondent & host Jemma Cooper
The events of the last three years have shown how institutions many of us thought we could trust are not acting in humanity’s interests at all. Governments, health organisations, academia, and science have all revealed themselves to be little more than compromised bodies working for globalist and corporate agendas.
You could argue that nowhere has this been more apparent than in the world of legacy media. Over the last three years, censorship and propaganda have been deliberately and overtly used to suppress debate, withhold truth, brainwash audiences, and create a culture of fear.
Thankfully there’s been a reaction to the manipulation and suppression of information that has been allowed to dominate our airwaves. It’s come in the form of independent, sometimes called ‘alternative’, media and it’s quickly shown the mainstream it’s a force to be reckoned with.
Websites, TV and radio stations are springing up all over the world directly challenging globalist and corporate versions of reality and providing a much-needed space where truth can flourish. And it’s a movement which currently cannot be stopped.
Take for example the UK-based Light Paper. It’s a print newspaper that grew organically out of information leaflets and flyers being handed out at London freedom rallies. It started in September 2020 and now has a print run over more than 100,000 a month. There are also similar versions of the paper in Australia, Ireland, Canada and Germany.
The Light Paper
The Light’s founder Darren Nesbit had absolutely no experience in journalism or publishing. But he was so disgusted by what he was seeing in the legacy media he felt compelled to create something that gave different information to the propaganda being pumped out. He also wanted to reassure people they were not alone in questioning the so-called facts and narratives the mainstream was pushing.
It has quickly grown into a widely distributed publication with articles, opinions and solutions all pointing towards a better way and a better world. Hence the name The Light.
Unsurprisingly, the faster it’s grown the more attention it’s attracted and The Light was recently the subject of a BBC Disinformation Unit hit piece. After a three-hour sit-down interview, where a wide range of subjects was discussed, the BBC made an extremely tenuous attempt to portray Darren, and the paper, as far-right and hateful, advocating violence. The usual smear tactics. Nothing could be further from the truth, but it seems the BBC was sufficiently threatened by the paper’s presence and was determined to destroy it.
Thankfully Darren and his team had the foresight to film the entire interview and have uploaded it to Rumble for anyone to watch. Anyone with half a brain can see how the BBC has distorted what it sees as ‘facts’ to suit a preconceived agenda, and it’s done the publicly funded broadcaster no favours at all. Conversely, The Light has attracted more interest as a result of the report and it’s profile has been significantly raised.
You can see Darren’s full three-hour recorded interview here.
The Light is one of many independent sources of information providing a much-needed counter-balance to mainstream propaganda. It is far from alone. One could argue that the increasing rise of global alternative media shows how many people around the world have independent minds and are sick of falsehoods being shoved down their throats.
The independent media often comes in for criticism that it doesn’t always present two sides to a story or issue, and the journalists that work in that arena have no formal training.
The arguments over editorial balance may have had some validity before the events of the last three years. However, the last 36 months have clearly shown that the mainstream has FAR from given us balanced reporting, preferring to promote dangerous, one-sided narratives and censoring anyone who questions those narratives. The very thing they accuse alternative media of, they are guilty of themselves. Thankfully more and more people are seeing through the pretence of balance that legacy media purports to have and are turning to independent sources in their droves.
The issue of formal training is also one that has less validity now, the mainstream is crumbling. Formal training in any area of work often serves as a way of putting people into narrow boxes and conditioning. Formal training can often be nothing more than a recipe for prescribed thinking, behaviour and attitudes that serves the system.
Formal training is often simply shorthand for indoctrination.
These were just some of the issues and themes discussed in the World Council for Health’s General Assembly on Monday, June 26. Darren Nesbit, along with Glen Jung, founder of Canada’s Bright Light News, talked about how and why they started their respective ventures, the response they have had and the future of the legacy media versus independent media.
If you are interested in watching the conversation, you can see it here.
Bright Light News
Bright Light News was also established in September 2020 and was one of the first news outlets in Canada to directly challenge the country’s medical data. It quickly garnered a reputation for being the go-to website where medical information and data are analysed regularly and Glenn has conducted interviews with some of the world’s leading doctors and scientists, all challenging the Covid-19 story. He left his previous career as a teacher to focus on getting the truth out to people, and his dedication is admirable.
Glenn recently attended the Better Way Conference in Bath, where he did a sit-down interview with the World Council for Health’s Steering Committee. You can see it here.
If you’d like to learn about the history of independent media, check out General Assembly Meeting #89 with Derrick Broze, Jason Bassler, and Joe Martino. In it, they revealed the true role of “fact-checkers”—controlling the independent media and restricting free thought. You can watch their important interview here.
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I was married to a journalist who trained in the trenches so to speak- old time local rag coverage moving up to eventually present BBC's Newsnight. No degree. Just a nose for news and a knack for putting people of every culture at ease. Naturally, he was side-lined in later life because he - didn't have that degree in alleged journalism - only the qualifications of travelling through Africa and being evicted by Amin and Mugabe and travelling through Russia post Glasnost. He said the death knell rang for the BBC when John Burt was appointed Director General - with a massively inflated salary in the 80s I think. Actual journalists have felt the noose resting round their necks ever since.
He (Nick Worrall) would have relished the rise of Substack and The Light.
Our federal government in Australia has obviously recognised the growing power of the alternative media. It is now in the process of preparing legislation which will monitor and control “misinformation” and “disinformation”, particularly in social media. This is positively Orwellian, yet our mainstream media does not recognise it as such - or pretends not to.
Incidentally, many readers will have seen footage of Australian police attacking protesters against the social restrictions and vaccine mandates. None of the excessive force or violations of civil liberties, freedom of movement etc has been condemned (with a few individual journalist exceptions) by the mainstream media. Many of us here believe that Australia has seen some of the most repressive government action amongst the western nations. Some of us can hardly believe it. But the independent spirit of Australia has been beaten into submission. It is not the country of our forefathers.