Philip Watson, Author at Citizen Journalists

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.

THE PODCAST: A look into life in care-homes in Northern Ireland under a COVID-first regime

In the first of this 3-part series, we hear the stories of three brave residents of Northern Ireland who lost loved ones in care homes during different periods of the COVID-19 pandemic. With these first-hand accounts, you will learn that…

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!

[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…

Gavin Yamey: The Lying Professor

Gavin Yamey was caught deliberately and intentionally misrepresenting an article written by Professor Martin Kulldorff of the Great Barrington Declaration group. When we challenged Yamey on this he proceeded to spend the next 36 hours tweeting lie after lie about us whilst urging his 35K followers to report us to Twitter.

BBC-NI Found in Breach of BBC Editorial Standards

The BBC in Northern Ireland have long acted as a PR machine for the Department of Health in their COVID-19 messaging. That messaging has mostly been little more than scaremongering and coercive in nature. In this report we look at how the BBC-NI helped propagate lies from a Doctor without verifying the doctor’s claims or attaching a disclaimer to their broadcasts. After abandoning our complaints we were forced to circumvent them and go directly to the ECU who ruled in our favour.

General Medical Council Comes Out Against Northern Ireland CMO – Michael McBride

NI CMO Michael McBride is scolded by the General Medical Council (GMC) in the UK for his comments on the BBC.

PODCAST: Citizenjournos Forces a Win Over the Authoritarianism of Northern Ireland CMO Michael McBride

The Northern Ireland Executive, under direction from its Chief Medical Officer Michael McBride, decided to amend the face mask legislation requiring that anyone claiming exemption from wearing a mask must prove their exemption or they must be refused entrance to…

PODCAST: Interview with Human Rights Lawyer, Michael Brentnall

We speak to Michael Brentnall of Brentnall Legal Ltd, a human rights law firm in Belfast regarding his legal challenges to the discriminatory vaccine passport system and changes to the face mask legislation in Northern Ireland. On the 29th of…

Author: Philip Watson