Local media ignoring the vaccine injured

When local newspaper and TV reporters ignore vaccine injured, we need to call them out.

Two weeks ago at the Minnesota State Capitol, a press conference was held with several COVID-19 vaccine injured parties and a few legislators that wanted to stand up and defend them against medical discrimination by doctors and being ignored by elected officials and public health.

I was at that press conference. I knew most of the people in the room including local legacy media of newspapers and TV outlets. The vaccine injured told their stories of what happened to them, to their children or other family members.

Legislators briefly talked about a resolution to institute a patient bill of rights and prevent coercive mandates of experimental COVID-19 vaccines. A couple of candidates for state office spoke about medical freedom.

What was reported in the Minnesota local media markets was completely different. It was like they did not attend the press conference and only wanted to make a story from a press release a week earlier announcing the upcoming press conference.

And from the written accounts, that is what happened. A news reporter writing for a statewide service bureau reported on what was announced in the press release. He completely ignored the eight members of the general public who were vaccine injured.

You can read his article here. You can watch segments of the press conference here.

So I decided to correct the record and turn the tables on him. Here is my Letter to the Editor that was sent 3 days after the 6 state newspapers that ran his story. I also sent it to his boss with a question. “Do you require your reporters to attend the event they are reporting from?” He did not attend. Busted. Read my letter below.

When will journalists finally realize that vaccine adverse reactions cause real human suffering — a 24/7 medical reality that must never be politicized, denied, or cruelly dismissed with arbitrary decrees that “benefits outweigh risks”?

On Wednesday, April 20, a group of Minnesotans injured by COVID-19 vaccines gathered at the State Capitol for a press conference on HF 2348, a resolution to institute a patient bill of rights and prevent coercive mandates of experimental COVID-19 vaccines — which, for these medically vulnerable people, could re-injure or possibly kill them.

HF 2348 would also promote informed consent and medical choice, improve healthcare providers’ reporting to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), and ban discrimination against the unvaccinated that would limit or prohibit that unfairly targeted group from participating in activities of daily living.

Eight adults and one child testified about their physical damage from COVID-19 vaccines, their difficulty obtaining proper medical care for vaccine adverse reactions, and their difficulty dealing with medical practitioners who deny their patients’ injuries and inconvenient causation.

The vaccine injury victims were joined at the press conference by various health advocates, including several legislators from the Representatives from the Minnesota House and candidates for state office. Several media outlets in attendance videotaped the event and took notes.

This YouTube video from April 20, “Testimonies from alleged vaccine-injured Minnesotans,” shows some of those vaccine injury victims describing frightening and debilitating symptoms after vaccination for COVID-19, including fainting, muscle spasms, circulatory disorders, autoimmune conditions, and more.

The day of the press conference, an article appeared in the Pioneer Press and Duluth News Tribune titled “Anti-vaccination lawmakers, allies propose bill to ban COVID-19 mandates in Minnesota.” The writer, Alex Derosier of Forum News Service, completely ignored the medical reporting from the vaccine-injured participants. Instead, with defamatory headlines and first sentence, Derosier turned his article into a political hit piece against those elected officials that stood up for the vaccine-injured.

Derosier was so uninterested in the devastation caused by vaccine injury, or hearing from medical personnel who’ve witnessed vaccine damage firsthand, that he did not even attend the press conference. Obviously he intended to downplay the medical evidence from injured people, and also promote the well-funded narrative of product perfection promoted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and its Pharma allies.

A journalist’s job is to report, not to repeat. A journalist with ethical integrity would ask why the CDC refuses to study vaccine adverse reactions, refuses to develop treatments for vaccine injuries, and refuses to prevent more damaged and destroyed lives. Derosier should also be aware that pejoratively mislabeling people who’ve received vaccines as “anti-vaccine” is not only factually inaccurate, that epithet soon could be legally deemed hate speech against a protected medical minority.

Derosier’s diversionary corporate spin reminded me of a book report that I turned in back in seventh grade. I had forgotten a book report assignment due on a Monday morning. Prior to class, I quickly tried to create a book report by reading the back cover of the book jacket. Busted by my teacher, I was told to write a complete report of the assigned book, plus a second report on another book.

Alex Derosier failed to attend a capitol press conference, then tried to write an article that would appear as if he attended. Busted.

The bias of mainstream media, which increasingly rely on pharmaceutical ad revenues, is destroying their credibility. A local TV station reporting on the press conference interviewed a state representative also not in attendance, who consistently shows a lack of compassion and understanding about the devastation caused by vaccine injuries. That mind-blindness, and Derosier’s political diversion from ethical journalism, exemplify why Minnesota’s legacy media no longer deserve our immediate trust. Let the reader beware.

Wayne Rohde

Crickets from all the newspapers and his boss.

I want to thank all the courageous souls telling their personal stories who are fighting and trying to recover from their injuries. And thanks to the legislators that are trying to do right by them.

Special acknowledgement from the best editor a writer can have. Nancy Hokkanen from Minnesota.

Keep learning, keep challenging yourself and always, always question authority.