JAMES O’KEEFE with Project Veritas reports on the staging of a news story by CBS, which allegedly created a fake patient line outside a Covid-testing site in Michigan. “This is an explosive story,” says O’Keefe. It was exposed by an insider at the testing site who recorded conversations with employees.

The whistleblower appears on this report, and though he says people shouldn’t be afraid to come forward, he speaks with an annoying and creepy electronic voiceover. Otherwise, it is a good report.

The alleged staging by CBS is not surprising at all except to those who are living in a dream world. Television networks have been producing news for decades, which is not at all to say that everything they do is staged.

Malcolm Muggeridge, (1903-1990), the famous journalist who worked for major English newspapers and the BBC, reported on this phenomenon in his book “Christ and the Media,” published in 1977. He warned that television would be used — and was already being used — for mass deception:

I remember once returning to my hotel in New York and noticing on the way that a crowd had assembled outside what was obviously an embassy or consulate of some sort — I found out afterwards that it belonged to one of the Arab countries. There were the usual students assembled — bra-less girls, bearded men, holding slogans with placards on them; also a police van in attendance, and a number of cops standing by with their truncheons — everything set for a demo. ‘What’s going on?’ I asked, and was told, as though it should have been obvious, that the cameras hadn’t yet turned up. I lingered on, until they came, and watched them set up and start rolling. Then, ‘Action!’ whereupon, placards were lifted, slogans shouted, fists clenched; a few demonstrators were arrested and pitched into the police van, and a few cops kicked, until, ‘Cut!’ Soon the cameras, the cops, and the demonstrators had all departed, leaving the street silent and deserted. Later, in the evening, in my hotel room, I watched the demo on the screen in one of the news programmes. It looked very impressive.

He also wrote:

I don’t myself in any way equate the invention of printing with the invention of television. There are enormous differences between the two, and one of the most obvious ones is that the printed word — which I hold in veneration — is not subject to the same centralised control as television.

This is not quite true. We know the printed word too can be under centralized control, as it is today. TV news is more powerful though because it looks so darn real. Americans are living in a dream world and are literally hypnotized by imagery on the screen and the presumed authority of televisions news reports. The real problem is not the technology but the human impulse to surrender judgement and escape from reality.

“Future historians,” wrote Muggeridge, “will surely see us as having created in the media a Frankenstein monster which no one knows how to control or direct, and marvel that we should have so meekly subjected ourselves to its destructive and often malign influence.

Project Veritas has produced another good story, following up on its report on funeral directors who say death certificates are being falsely labeled as Covid deaths. Just a word of warning: Project Veritas has a slick feel that concerns me. Obviously, it has major funding, but I’m not sure where that is coming from. Stay alert, stay safe! Anything well-funded, anything that gets by the Youtube censors must be approached with caution, though I am not at all suggesting that this report is inaccurate.

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