SO, that is how Davey Alba and Sheryl Gaye Stolberg gained my | Robert W Malone, MD

SO, that is how Davey Alba and Sheryl Gaye Stolberg gained my confidence and agreement to the interview. I hope that this has been helpful for all of you that may be contacted by the legacy media at some point in the future.

My strong recommendation is just say no, no matter how nice they act, and no matter how much they speak of integrity and objectivity.

Welcome to the world of “advocacy journalism”. Best of luck - its rough out there, and you will need a thick skin if you are going to swim in these waters.

I leave you with the same quote from Janet Malcom’s seminal piece on modern journalism, “The Journalist and the Murderer” which I included in Part 1.

“Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people’s vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse. Like the credulous widow who wakes up one day to find the charming young man and all her savings gone, so the consenting subject of a piece of nonfiction writing learns—when the article or book appears—his hard lesson. Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and “the public’s right to know”; the least talented talk about Art; the seemliest murmur about earning a living.

The catastrophe suffered by the subject is no simple matter of an unflattering likeness or a misrepresentation of his views; what pains him, what rankles and sometimes drives him to extremes of vengefulness, is the deception that has been practiced on him. On reading the article or book in question, he has to face the fact that the journalist—who seemed so friendly and sympathetic, so keen to understand him fully, so remarkably attuned to his vision of things—never had the slightest intention of collaborating with him on his story but always intended to write a story of his own.”

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