Jon Fleetwood – modernity.news June 21, 2025
New Freedom of Information (FOI) documents confirm what many long suspected: The UK government secretly used popular soap operas like EastEnders and Coronation Street to push vaccine propaganda during the pandemic, raising urgent questions about how much influence the state holds over British media, and how far officials are willing to go to manipulate public thought, opinion and behavior under the guise of public health.
The findings echo May 2021 revelations that scientists on the UK government’s behavioral advisory committee admitted they used fear-based “totalitarian” tactics to control public behavior during COVID-19, describing the approach as “unethical,” “dystopian,” and a form of “mind control.”
They also mirror an October 2024 U.S. House investigation that found the CDC and Biden administration used a $900 million COVID campaign to “manipulate Americans” with “deeply flawed” messaging, “overpromising” vaccines “without evidence,” and funding Big Tech companies to “track and monitor Americans.”
What other views and choices are being shaped today by government-scripted entertainment?
Ministers Pushed BBC & ITV to Insert Vaccine Storylines
“Ministers met television bosses during the pandemic to persuade them to push pro-vaccine storylines in soaps such as EastEnders and Coronation Street, it has emerged,” The Telegraph reported last week.
The effort was led by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), which held secret meetings with ITV, BBC, Channel 4 and others to coordinate “national unity programming.”
FOI documents show broadcasters were asked: “if there were plans to introduce health messages into soap stories.”
BBC committed to “report back re other shows” while ITV responded that “filming had now ceased,” but that “ITV have included voiceovers to episodes now to clarify govt messaging re social distancing.”
Early Meetings with ITV in February 2020
Redacted records show that as early as Feb. 2, 2020—more than a month before lockdown—officials met ITV chief Dame Carolyn McCall to “test the possibility” of inserting pro-vaccine messaging.
The government briefing stated:
“Since that meeting ITV have noticeably increased their engagement across DCMS and Whitehall; and recently officials at the Department of Health have been in touch with DCMS about potential assistance from ITV in relation to pro vaccine messaging. This meeting may offer an opportunity to test the possibility of this with them.”
Health Department Wanted Letters to Broadcasters
Documents confirm the Department of Health wanted to write directly to ITV to “include vaccine storylines in their soaps.”
But DCMS advised against it:
“Whilst we do not think it would be appropriate to write to ITV on this matter given the importance of broadcasters’ operational and editorial independence, you may wish to explore with them whether they already have plans to develop content related to this area.”
Officials also noted ITV was “planning soap storylines related to the environment and climate change and therefore they may be amenable to the idea of something similar in relation to vaccine messaging.”
BBC & Channel 4 Also Involved
In March and April 2020, then-Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden and then-Media Minister John Whittingdale met with BBC Director-General Tony Hall, ITV’s Dame Carolyn McCall, and Channel 4 CEO Alex Mahon.
Channel 4 agreed it would “reinforce Public Health England guidance” and target younger viewers through YouTube.
Mahon told officials:
“AM said they will consider how to spread message through YouTube excerpts of news programmes (C4’s YouTube channel has attracted 100 million views) and through social media. Also C4 is considering filming broadcast messages from hosts and talent to reinforce messaging.”
Pro-Vaccine Propaganda Aired on EastEnders
“Pro-vaccine messaging did end up in soaps.”
In a 2021 episode of EastEnders: “Patrick Trueman told Suki Panesar he felt like he had ‘won the lottery’ after getting his second vaccination.”
During the same scene: “Karen Taylor was accused of being an ‘anti-vaxxer’ for worrying that they had developed the vaccine too quickly.”
Critics Blast State Interference in British Media
Sir David Davis MP condemned the effort:
“What this demonstrates is that during Covid, the government reduced the broadcasters to mere arms of the state.”
“Of course, it was important to tell the public about the efficacy and safety of vaccines, but the state should never resort to underhanded propaganda of this nature.”
Lord Frost added:
“If, as it seems, the government quietly worked behind the scenes with major broadcasters to shape opinions and compliance on their draconian Covid-19 measures, this is extremely worrying.”
“Actions like this blur the boundary between government, civil society, and private life. They risk undermining confidence in government messaging in the future, and border on the unethical in a free society.”
Injuries Acknowledged but Concerns Suppressed
“More than 17,500 Britons have applied to the Government’s vaccine damage payment scheme (VDPS) believing they or loved ones were injured by the jab.”
“Most of the successful vaccine harm claims relate to the AstraZeneca jab, which was found to cause vaccine-induced thrombocytopenia and thrombosis, a dangerous type of blood clotting which can be fatal.”
Dodsworth: ‘That’s Not Public Health, It’s Propaganda’
Author Laura Dodsworth said:
“The government was in close contact with broadcasters to ensure the ‘right’ messages made it into entertainment – that’s not public health, it’s propaganda.”
“Take EastEnders. Patrick and Suki dutifully pushed the jab, while ‘Karen’ (white, and literally named Karen) voiced concerns and was ridiculed. It was heavy-handed, awkward and divisive. Propaganda often works by polarisation: creating in-groups and out-groups to shut down debate. There’s a word for this: manipulation.”
Academics & Campaigners Warn of Collusion
Dr. Colin Alexander of Nottingham Trent University stated:
“What the FoI request information thus confirms is that broadcasters relinquished their primary democratic role of holding the powerful to account and instead became collusive with the official narrative.”
“This at a time when scrutiny and investigation ought to have been at its highest.”
Molly Kingsley of UsForThem added:
“This kind of brazen state interference with British media crosses multiple red lines.”
“It indicates that the state-led pandemic censorship operation extended beyond ‘merely’ social media, and it raises serious questions about the integrity of messages broadcast to the public during the pandemic.”
ITV & BBC Respond
ITV said:
“All of this was entirely editorially independent of the Government and any other body or interest group.”
A BBC spokesman said:
“The BBC is independent and makes its own editorial decisions. This does not mean that we cannot meet representatives from the government or from political parties, and, like other broadcasters, we do so.”
‘We’re Being Entertained Into Compliance’
Dodsworth concluded:
“There’s a growing trend of public policy delivered through storylines – we’re being entertained into compliance. What better to wash your brain with than with a soap?”
And if the government quietly weaponized entertainment to coerce pandemic compliance, how else is this machinery being used?
If vaccine propaganda was planted in prime time without public knowledge, what other narratives are now shaping public thought, behavior, and consent?
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Just like the jabbed will fight tooth and nail that “covid” is real, tv watchers will do the same for immigrant invaders, perverts and “government”. Humans, in general, are apparently so dumb that they’ll follow and do whatever they’re told. The “cavemen” that we’re all told we shouldn’t want to be were more intelligent. They, at least, would shove a spear through you if you threatened them.
Ministers pushed them ? so kill all ministers !
Why would they waste time with subliminal messaging when they had the world thinking that ‘antivaxxers’ were the new pandemic?? I still remember fighting to keep my stance of trusting God over poisonous medicine.
Psycho-Techno Mesmerism
with a dash of Pharmacopeia.
Vaccines are poison injections period, sadly so few actually ever investigate but remain content and compliant to the propaganda that destroys them/ The evidence is literally overwhelming.
Britain has been under the control of the talmud evil cult such as the rothschilds for centuries. These talmud evil cult members even anglicize their names to hide their heritage and trick the general public. This deceased jacob rothschild and his father married wealthy British women to infiltrate and enrich themselves…all very very much planned. No wonder people referred to them as ‘name stealers and tricksters’. Let’s us not forget that they are always behind the scenes like cowards controlling all. And all mass media is owned by them. Anchor people and most doctors are prostitutes to the aforementioned entities.
It’s not exactly “Breaking News!” that ZOGUK would use “Soaps” to propagandise teevee-addicted THICKBrit Proles into clamoring for Covid-Shots…
so DON’T be surprised to see TBs being “acclimatised” to WW3… when their favourite Soap-Stars start appearing in WW2 Tommy Helmets…
accompanied to the sound of a barely-audible Vera Lynn clearing her throat… before humming the opening notes of “White Cliffs of Dover” in the background…
🙄
The entire Covid operation, including the vaccines, was the official Declaration of War against the common people of the planet by the 1% amoral, psychopathic, control-freak, ruling class. You would think there would have been a more universal uprising on a global scale with an actual Declaration of Independence by the people to round up all of the perps, try them and dispatch them to the perdition they deserve. The UK has a history of being a bellwether nation for free speech to sort out its ills, but instead has become a bellwether for sophisticated ways of speech and thought suppression. The fact that people all over the West, including Britain, despite their protests, do not have a clue WTF is actually being dropped on them with the chemtrails, and believe it has to do with the pretext of the 1% to protect them from sunlight and global warming, or just to control the weather, is another example of mind control. Everyone goes blithely along with the official narratives and ACCEPT their governments have ABSOLUTELY NO DUTY to tell them WTF they are dropping on them and the real reasons why. Either with dispersed chemtrails dropped during the night or them still busy at it in the morning our populated areas are continuously shrouded in a mist of droplets not just with toxic aluminum particles but most likely a host of nano particles which Mr. Gates would ensure are vaccines to retard intelligence, fertility, and to pacify us. The fact that we have NO RIGHT TO KNOW the actual contents of substances we are being forced to ingest, proves that we are now living in a totalitarian dystopia run by psychopaths.
What of all of the minions and of that diabolical 1% who implement their diabolical diktats? Those people representing the media in the panel being blasted by Burgess the other day about their genocidal coverups for the Jewish money power, what about them? Are they not like the Nazis criminals tried at Nuremburg, who pleaded in their defence they were “just obeying orders”. Is this not the same thing, which is really to say, “Well I was always considered to be a good student, and even won awards at university. I always obeyed my superiors because that was the sure road to success. In fact I was always an excellent suck hole, willing to suck up to anyone with wealth and power to ensure my position and advancement. I am really quite a good fellow, and although I never really stood on my own two feet on anything, and that is why you should let me off.”
Old news. For decades, the BBC and ITV have been using the ‘soaps’ to push government propaganda. At first it was multi-racialism. Then a soft approach to drugs. At the moment, every single show is pushing the homosexuality theme really hard. Some storylines have come very close to paedophilia.
Avoid their television shows, avoid their satanic attempts at music.
It’s mostly women who watch this junk, who it is created for, and who spread the poison to each other.
Since ((Norman Lear)), the purpose of tv is to normalize the abnormal, immoral & anti-Christ.
In recent history, that is, the era around WW2, the Nazis had diverse educative printed booklets aimed toward the population, composed in simple language and rich in illustrations.
In one of these there was a chapter dedicated to vaccinations in which an obviously Jewish doctor was showed needle in hand and ready to inject a child.
The expression of his face was of eagerness to inoculate the German child.
Also the TV series Friends, or Coronation Street. One would say ‘It’s cold’.. another would say ‘It’s going to rain.’ Another would say ‘Och Eye’… then someone else with ‘I need another drink’
Continuation
Exactly the opposite of what UK and other governments and accomplice media do today.
The “jewjab” has been an issue for all who had eyes to see.
If they were intelligent then they wouldn’t follow the electric jew. It is as simple as that.
Obviously…
& Sport is just NIGGERBALL…
Kalergi Programming on Steroids
KIKE SATANIC INVERSION OF EVERYTHING
WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!
Tv just one of very many silent weapons for quiet wars, an extension of Mi7 war propaganda machine, Tavistock Institute test subjects and all manner of psychological operations/warfare against their own slave subjects……there’s a minority who know, a majority that will never know and the diet woke who are learning slowly get easily distracted by their tech distraction addictions.
In their utter desperation to change humankind’s genofond, TPTB dug up every celeb, every punchline, every real or fictitious emotional attachment people ever had.
In my book, repurposing Chandler Bing of the 90s Friends sitcom to spout, “Could I BE any more vaccinated?” was the lowest of the low; dripping with genocidal fascism.
The origin of the term, “soap opera” is disputed, with some researchers insisting that the phrase is rooted in the advertisement of soap bars, which would typically punctuate radio dramas. This seems unlikely to me, considering that the BBC, historically has eschewed advertising.
I suggest, on the contrary, that “soap opera” refers to a soap box, a firm crate that was typically upturned to provide an elevated platform for a public speaker. When someone “got on a soap box,” it meant that they were proselytising for a political cause. “Soap operas,” then, by definition, are propagandist dramas, intended expressly for the dissemination of a favoured ideology.
I was once deeply in love with a woman, who would never miss even a single episode of Coronation Street. For five years, I pretended that I loved Coronation Street too.