Debunking Mainstream Media Hit Pieces about Franklin County, Washington Presentation (posted 12/28/24)

👍ICWA Weekly News 12-24-2024. Just in time to place under your tree: Mainstream Media Attacks COVID-19 Presenters in Franklin County; What about Polio? RFK Jr. is incorrectly implicated in latest pHARMedia accusations. By Gerald Braude and Informed Choice Washington (12/24/24):

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The article linked above provides excellent coverage with accurate quotes about the Franklin County presentation.

👎Unfortunately, mainstream media — notably Tri-City Herald newspaper (Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland, Washington) and a reprint in Yahoo News — followed the “Trusted News Initiative” playbook by distorting the truth with charged language, inaccurate information, and smears about the presenters’ scientific information and their association with RFK Jr.

• Mainstream Media Sources:

  • Tri-City Herald [headline here is from ICWA Weekly News; the latest headline now matches Yahoo News]: Why did Franklin Co. host panel of COVID-19 vaccine skeptics? tri-cityherald.com/news…

  • Yahoo News: Discredited COVID-19 vaccine skeptics tied to RFK Jr. group try to sway Franklin County: yahoo.com/news/discredi…

• Fact: The presenters have no official association with RFK Jr at all. However, the presenters or articles about their work have appeared at Children’s Health Defense (CHD), a non-profit organization RFK Jr. founded in 2018. CHD’s vision and mission are as follows:

  VISION: A world free of childhood chronic health conditions caused by environmental exposures

  MISSION: Our mission is ending childhood health epidemics by eliminating toxic exposure. We will restore and protect the health of children by eliminating environmental exposures, holding responsible parties accountable, and establishing safeguards to prevent future harm of children’s health.

  Protecting Children. Exposing Harms. Seeking Justice.

• Fact: The mainstream reporter did not ask questions at the presentation or interview any presenters; the reporter simply smeared people whose message diverges from mainstream orthodoxy.

• “Charged and distorted language” quotes from the opening paragraphs of the Tri-City Herald article are below. Incendiary sections are indicated with strikeout, while neutral and more accurate corrections are in bold so readers can be on the lookout for similar smears in this and other sources. The Tri-City Herald article continued in the same manner as below, but we’ll leave our readers to do their own research and mental editing of its remaining content.

COVID-19 Vaccine Experts Present Evidence to Franklin County Discredited COVID-19 vaccine skeptics tied to RFK Jr. group try to sway Franklin County. By Cory McCoy December 19, 2024 5:00 AM

A panel of medical professionals and researchers, who have all previously been investigated for spreading misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, were invited to a Franklin County Commission meeting this week, where they made inflammatory and discredited claims. The commissioners also heard from self-described researchers whose claims have been debunked. Speakers claimedstated that the COVID vaccine caused miscarriages at the same rate as the abortion pill, that the coronavirus pandemic was a “biological weapon” and that medical organizations were bribed by the government to promote the vaccine.

All the speakers have links to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Children’s Health Defense. The group has been described as one of the primary sources of anti-vaccination misinformation, according to research on the spread of misinformation.

The speakers — while not directly associated with Children’s Health Defense (CHD) or RFK Jr. — have all either given talks talked directly with theCHD’sorganization’s media arm, spoken at their conferences or have been cited as sources used to spread misinformation, according to records on the group’s website. (Children’s Health Defense is a non-profit organization that RFK Jr. founded in 2018. Their stated mission: “Our mission is ending childhood health epidemics by eliminating toxic exposure. We will restore and protect the health of children by eliminating environmental exposures, holding responsible parties accountable, and establishing safeguards to prevent future harm of children’s health.”)

Resource:

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