{"id":1505374,"date":"2024-12-01T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1505374"},"modified":"2024-12-01T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T21:05:00","slug":"australian-broadcasting-boss-attacks-joe-rogan-as-malevolent-figure-preying-on-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/australian-broadcasting-boss-attacks-joe-rogan-as-malevolent-figure-preying-on-the-public\/1505374\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Broadcasting Boss Attacks Joe Rogan As ‘Malevolent Figure Preying On The Public’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian Broadcasting Boss Attacks Joe Rogan As ‘Malevolent Figure Preying On The Public’<\/span><\/p>\n

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The far flung nation of Australia and its close neighbor New Zealand were widely considered two of the worst examples of authoritarian western response to the covid pandemic.\u00a0 The Australian public was locked down and under house arrest in the larger cities.\u00a0 In some cases only one person would be allowed to leave home at a time and could only travel a short distance to shop for necessities.\u00a0 People who went to public parks or beaches were fined or arrested.\u00a0 Covid camps<\/a> were created to detain not only people who had traveled overseas, but also people who simply tested positive.<\/p>\n

Most disturbing of all, Australian officials had people arrested who dared to criticize<\/a> the lockdowns on social media. Australian news organizations widely defended such measures in lockstep with the government narrative.\u00a0 With the exception of a few minor complaints, journalists from the land down under acted as propagandists for the government and for Big Pharma.<\/p>\n

It was these Orwellian conditions and similar attempts across the west that led to many personalities in the alternative media to speak out and become decidedly anti-establishment.\u00a0 One of those figures was podcaster Joe Rogan.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rogan attracted the full fury of the corporate media for engaging in interviews with lockdown critics who debunked many of the narratives put forward by government authorities.\u00a0 As it turns out, in the majority of cases Rogan and his guests were right.\u00a0 The fearmongering over covid was overblown.\u00a0 The lockdowns were ineffective.\u00a0 Social distancing was ineffective.\u00a0 The masks were ineffective.\u00a0 The vaccines were suspiciously experimental and proven less effective than natural immunity.\u00a0 Death numbers were inflated by comorbidities. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The virus itself only has an average Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) of 0.23%<\/a>, meaning 99.8% of all people regardless of vaccination status were under no threat (the original false claims from the WHO and others was that the virus was deadly for 3% of people). \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The lockdowns were pointless in terms of public health, but very useful in terms of public control.<\/p>\n

To this day, many in the media still despise Joe Rogan and the alternative media for revealing the inconsistencies within the covid theater.\u00a0 Not to mention, they hate the fact that their elitist ivory tower is being torn down by civilian journalists.\u00a0 This was the motivation behind a recent attack on Rogan by the head of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Kim Williams, at the Australian Press Club (Williams took over the position at ABC at the start of 2024).\u00a0 Williams described Rogan as ‘malevolent’ – a person that ‘preys on the fears of the public’.<\/p>\n

Australian Broadcasting Corporation boss Kim Williams launches an unhinged tirade against Joe Rogan (@joerogan<\/a>):<\/p>\n

“People like Mr. Rogan prey on people’s vulnerabilities. They prey on fear. They prey on anxiety.”<\/p>\n

“I personally find it deeply repulsive, and to think that someone\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/NNenTOkiqP<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) November 27, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

Many would refer to the venomous comments spit by Kim Williams as gaslighting and projection. \u00a0Joe Rogan is popular because of his sincerity, a quality which is severely lacking in modern journalism.\u00a0 It’s the establishment media that commonly exploits fear and disinformation to set the public into a frenzy; it’s this very behavior that caused millions of consumers to abandon mainstream outlets in the first place.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The ABC reported in 2023<\/a> that public trust in corporate media and the government was in steep decline post-covid.\u00a0 Instead of asking why this is the case and having the courage to participate in some self examination, media elites have instead chosen to blame podcasters like Joe Rogan (and the supposed ignorance of the public) for their fall from grace.<\/p>\n

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When ABC radio host Raf Epstein (an employee) asked Williams<\/a> to speak further about his views on Mr Rogan and expand on his broad-brush attack, the ABC boss dredged up old covid-era accusations with no validity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Epstein:\u00a0 \u201cAre you worried that podcasts that don\u2019t provide the scrutiny that you might get on the ABC, that they are the future, and that we really are going out of fashion?\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

Williams:\u00a0 \u201cWell, I would hope that we’re the best antidote to misinformation and, more alarmingly, disinformation…I mean, Joe Rogan did an enormous, in my view, an enormous amount of damage back in 2020 and 2021, when he was particularly virulent in many of his remarks about vaccinations…I don\u2019t think people have unlimited license to say what they want, simply because they believe something to be so…\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s important to note that covid cases and deaths plunged in 2021 well before the experimental mRNA vaccines were widely released to the public.\u00a0 It should also be noted that the vaccines did not prevent transmission as officials originally claimed.<\/p>\n

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Williams then turned to gaslighting.\u00a0 Angry that he had received so much criticism online for his comments, he accused Rogan fans of being “made of glass” and unable to handle critique.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Williams:\u00a0 \u201cWhat fascinates me is you say something negative about Joe Rogan \u2013 and I have been swarmed with the most unbelievably vicious responses. I got one this morning that said that I should stay in my lane and watch out, and you read it and you think, \u2018What are you saying to me?\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Epstein:\u00a0 \u201cDo you think they\u2019ve got glass jaws?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Williams:\u00a0 \u201cTheir whole body is made of glass. How can people react in such a, frankly, demonic fashion? I really stand back in disbelief…”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Keep in mind, ABC news has shut off comments<\/a> on the Youtube video of Williams’ Press Club interview.\u00a0 Exactly the kind of behavior you would expect from a mainstream propagandist with a glass jaw.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Asked whether podcasts were \u201ca threat\u201d to the ABC, Willaims answered in the affirmative.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course they\u2019re a threat to the ABC. I think they\u2019re a threat to all views that are contrary into their own…If they represent the newfound mainstream, our society has deep troubles, and the only response that is available is to back education and knowledge…Knowledge is the is the antidote to this kind of hysterical rubbish.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Considering the reality that the alternative media has been consistently proven right while the corporate media has been consistently exposed as dishonest, this kind of rhetoric from Williams rings rather humorous.\u00a0 The attacks on alternative personalities like Rogan stink of desperation.\u00a0 The last gasps of a dying institution long bereft of honor or honesty. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSun, 12\/01\/2024 – 11:05<\/span><\/p>\n

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