{"id":310424,"date":"2025-06-15T06:36:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T06:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=310424"},"modified":"2025-06-17T06:54:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T06:54:05","slug":"put-pro-vaccine-propaganda-in-eastenders-ministers-secretly-urged-bbc-bosses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=310424","title":{"rendered":"Put Pro-Vaccine \u2018Propaganda\u2019 in EastEnders, Ministers Secretly Urged BBC Bosses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will Jones \u2013 The Daily Sceptic June 14, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Ministers met with television bosses during Covid to persuade them to push pro-vaccine storylines in soaps such as EastEnders and Coronation Street, it has emerged. The Telegraph <\/em>has the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Freedom of information (FoI) requests reveal that officials from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) secretly met with ITV, the BBC and Channel 4, among others, calling for \u201cnational unity programming\u201d.<\/p>\n

Critics described the meetings as \u201cbrazen state interference\u201d, while Sir David Davis, the former Brexit secretary who fought against vaccine mandates, said it amounted to \u201cunderhanded propaganda<\/a>\u201d by the government.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat this demonstrates is that during Covid, the government reduced the broadcasters to mere arms of the state,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Heavily redacted documents show that as early as February 2nd 2020 \u2013 more than a month before the first lockdown \u2013 DCMS met with Dame Carolyn McCall, the chief executive of ITV, to \u201ctest the possibility\u201d of pro-vaccine messaging.<\/p>\n

A briefing note shows that the Department of Health wanted to write to broadcasters asking them to \u201cinclude vaccine storylines in their soaps\u201d, but DCMS considered a letter inappropriate given the \u201cimportance of broadcasters\u2019 operational and editorial independence.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, DCMS said it would meet privately with ITV to \u201cexplore\u201d the issue.<\/p>\n

It noted that ITV was planning soap storylines about climate change and so \u201cmay be amenable to the idea of something similar in relation to vaccine messaging\u201d.<\/p>\n

Oliver Dowden, the former culture secretary, and John Whittingdale, the former minister for media and data, also met with Dame Carolyn, as well as Tony Hall, the BBC\u2019s former director-general, and Alex Mahon, the chief executive of Channel 4 in March and April 2020.<\/p>\n

Among the discussions were plans to \u201cintroduce health messages in soap stories\u201d. Ms Mahon agreed that Channel 4 would \u201creinforce Public Health England guidance\u201d and target young people through its YouTube channel.<\/p>\n

Pro-vaccine messaging did end up in soaps. In one episode of EastEnders in April 2021, Patrick Trueman told Suki Panesar he felt like he had \u201cwon the lottery\u201d after getting his second vaccination.<\/p>\n

In the same clip, Karen Taylor was accused of being an \u201canti-vaxxer\u201d for worrying that they had developed the vaccine too quickly.<\/p>\n

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Worth reading in full<\/a> \u2013 especially as at the bottom of Sarah Knapton\u2019s news report is an excellent article by Laura Dodsworth.<\/p>\n

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Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A reminder that subliminal mind-control messaging is being inserted into seemingly innocuous TV soaps: in this case BBC\u2019s popular EastEnders was used to promote Covid vaccines <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":310425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105,22,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-Health","category-mind_control"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310424"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310429,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310424\/revisions\/310429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/310425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}