Introducing: "Down The Rabbit Hole"
Let's dive in, shall we?
Hi there. I’m Rebecca Strong, a Boston-based freelance health and wellness writer, and former tech reporter. Currently, I contribute to Insider, Health magazine, Healthline, AskMen, and Eat This Not That, among other outlets. I’m using this platform to write about topics that would, mostly due to conflicts of interest, never be assigned or approved at mainstream outlets.
I imagine you came to Substack because you’re frustrated with how difficult it’s become to separate fact from corporate-spun fiction. You’re tired of the absurdly duplicative, heavily biased, propagandistic content you’re used to getting on mainstream news sites and channels. I’m glad you found me — because I am, too. In February of 2022, I published a long-form exposé on big pharma’s problematic power and reach. In watching with awe as it spread like wildfire to news outlets, blogs, and readers in Germany, Iceland, Australia, Italy, France, New Zealand, and elsewhere around the world, I realized that so many others like myself are hungry for information they can trust. So, here’s my promise to you: I’ll do my best to fill in some of those information gaps. Better yet, I’ll make sure my work is based on facts rather than opinions or theories. (That way, when you share these findings with Aunt Susan or Joe at the office, they can’t accuse you of spreading “misinformation.”)
In a recent Twitter survey I conducted, nearly 90% of people rated their trust in mainstream media as either “very low” or “low.” Having been a member of the media machine for a decade now, I know firsthand why and how this industry fails to serve our democracy, and keep citizens informed. Over the course of my first Substack series, “The Monopoly On Your Mind,” I'll be digging into the many conflicts of interest driving censorship and bias in the mainstream media with data from relevant studies as well as input from top media critics, professors, lecturers, and watchdogs. The first installment of this series publishes tomorrow. Future articles will explore conflicts of interest in a range of other industries, from food to banking and prisons.
Corruption is everywhere, and it’s up to us to hold those in power accountable. As was said in the 2019 film Dark Waters — based on the true story of a major corporate cover-up — “We protect us. We do. Nobody else. Not the companies. Not the scientists. Not the government.”
Thanks for joining me on this journey.
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Just read your two parter and first impression is as a compelling overview of how protective press policy was dismantled by generations of well-funded law makers.
Your series on Big Pharma is superb!!! Many of the things you point out about them I have felt for a very long time!!! Most people do not realize that the meds prescribed for them by their doctors are prescribed to make them drug addicted & not to get them healthy! I, like many of my alternative medicine oriented friends all over the age of 70, have spent our adult lives taking care of our health, as well as taking all the supplements that are the protocols for preventing CV19 or helping to cure. We began this practice years & years ago. We all have never had a flu shot that frequently does not prevent the flu because it is for a variant that has passed, just like the CV19 spikeshop is not working now! It would be a good study to find out just how many of us there are in the U.S., like myself, who have not had the spikeshop nor have had CV19 because we have developed strong immune systems that ward off the various viruses that arrive each year. If the government agencies were really working for the benefit of The People, they would be promoting healthy supplement protocols and good healthy eating habits, not promoting Big Pharma's drug addiction quest!