August 2022 - Citizen Journalists

Northern Ireland Excess Deaths Analysis – Week 33

NISRA publish weekly death statistics and also provide a summary which includes excess deaths based on a 5-year average, 2017-2021. However, our analysis will compare this to the 5-year average of 2015-2019, as these were the most recent ‘normal’ years…

Northern Ireland Justice Minister, Naomi Long, opposes the use of NISRA/ONS 5-year-average when assessing non-COVID excess deaths

Naomi Long argues against the use of the 5-year-average as an acceptable measurement gauge but only for assessing non-COVID excess deaths in Northern Ireland. We take a closer look at why this may be!

Health Minister misleads fellow MLA on the true scale of the excess deaths in Northern Ireland

‘One death from Covid is a death too many.’ We’ve all heard it. It was used time and time again to guilt people in to staying at home, testing themselves at every end and turn and even taking a new…

[Deleted] BBCNI Spotlight: The pending cancer pandemic due to lockdowns

On the 21st October, 2020, at a time when Robin Swann’s health service was operating as a ‘Covid only service’, Conor Spackman of BBCNI Spotlight investigated the cost of ignoring cancer patients in favour of Covid patients. In this now…

CitizenJournos Fact Check Another BBC “Fact-Checker”

The BBC felt the need to setup "BBC Verify" which is a team of self-styled "fact checkers" employed to police social media and decide what is fact and what is disinformation. But who fact-checks the fact-checkers? We do!

BBC Journalist Breached Editorial Guidelines: The Zelensky Hug

On the 28th of February 2023, in what the Huffington Post called “a heart-warming moment” and the New York Post labelled as “a touching moment” a journalist from BBC Ukraine (@bbc_ua) told the Ukrainian leader during a press conference with…

How the corporate media pressured the Health Board into suspending a doctor.

This is a story of how corporate media interfered with due process to pressure the Department of Health and the Health and Social Care Board into censoring and suspending a doctor for saying things they didn't like.

William Crawley And The Rise of Broadcast Disinformation

The BBC's William Crawley likes to position himself as a gatekeeper for the truth - someone who is at the forefront of tackling whatever he deems to be "misinformation". But William quite often spreads lies and disinformation himself. So who fact-checks him? Well, we do!

Trish Greenhalgh Caught Out Telling More Lies on Face Masks

Trish Greenhalgh is a mask zealot who has chosen the face mask debate as the rock on which her long academic career could well perish. We expose yet another instance of her making up stories to try and prove her narrative.

Month: August 2022