Essay by Eric Worrall
BBC Disinformation head Marianna Spring is a fierce defender of the BBC’s institutional climate bias, and a critic of anti-Covid lockdown conspiracy theorists.
When the BBC’s disinformation correspondent lied on her CV
Marianna Spring admitted she made an “awful misjudgement” when playing up her role in coverage of the Russia World Cup for the BBC
6 SEPTEMBER 2023 5:21 PM
We all make mistakes when we are young, and sometimes they grow in irony as time passes. Case in point: Marianna Spring, the BBC’s disinformation correspondent who, I can reveal today, was once caught red-handed lying in her CV to win a job.
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Five years ago, in 2018, Spring was looking for work as a Moscow stringer for US-based news site Coda Story. In her application to editor-in-chief Natalia Antelava, she included a CV in which claimed to have worked alongside BBC correspondent Sarah Rainsford on the corporation’s coverage of the football World Cup held in Russia.
The entry in her CV read: “June 2018: Reported on International News during the World Cup, specifically the perception of Russia, with BBC correspondent Sarah Rainsford.”
This claim was, unfortunately, pure disinformation. In reality, she had merely met Rainsford in a couple of social situations. The claim was a lie.
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Read more: https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/how-the-bbcs-disinformation-correspondent-lied-on-her-cv/
The New European claims she learned her hard lesson, and now upholds the highest standards of journalistic integrity as BBC’s disinformation correspondent.
Here’s a sample of Mariana’s writing;
Covid denial to climate denial: How conspiracists are shifting focus
Published 16 November 2021
By Marianna Spring
Specialist disinformation reporter, BBC NewsMembers of an online movement infected with pandemic conspiracies are shifting their focus – and are increasingly peddling falsehoods about climate change.
Matthew is convinced that shadowy forces lie behind two of the biggest news stories of our time, and that he’s not being told the truth.
“This whole campaign of fear and propaganda is an attempt to try and drive some agenda,” he says. “It doesn’t matter whether it’s climate change or a virus or something else.”
Originally from the UK, Matthew has been living in New Zealand for the past 20 years. The country is one of several that have aimed to completely stamp out Covid-19 through strict lockdowns.
Troubled by the New Zealand government’s approach, he turned to social media for news and community. The online groups he joined – opposed to vaccines and masks – exposed him to completely unfounded conspiracies about sinister global plots behind the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The White Rose network
It’s part of a larger pattern. Anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine Telegram groups, which once focused exclusively on the pandemic, are now injecting the climate change debate with the same conspiratorial narratives they use to explain the pandemic.
The posts go far beyond political criticism and debate – they’re full of incorrect information, fake stories and pseudoscience.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-59255165
Thank goodness for people like Marianna Spring, who after allegedly lying on her CV, went on to help us understand conspiracy theorists who criticise the urgent need for government enforced Covid lockdowns are just like conspiracy theorists who oppose renewables, and deny we are in the midst of a climate crisis.
Doesn’t this show that she knows and uses disinformation well?
Someone needs to ensure DisInformation gets properly disseminated
She works for the BBC, it’ll be second nature.
Once a Liar, always a Liar
That’s what I say.
Yawn.
☕☕☕
Wake up George
Strange how the woke are never awake.
Yes. Consider the job title:
“Specialist disinformation reporter, BBC News”
What the f…ing hell does that mean? Does the BBC employ special people to tell the truth?
Then what are the rest of them supposed to be doing?
The phrase “fact checking” is one of the most disgusting inventions of the modern media.
To my mind many BBC reporters are disinformation experts.
Re “Fact Checking”
The words will have no standard English meaning once they’re done with them.
Th n they’ll find or invent another phrase to destroy, and we’ll be upset all over again.
Checking, in hockey, is used to prevent a play going forward, similarly it is used in the climate change arena to prevent truth getting a see in.
They should be called what they are- censors.
That she is a “disinformation reporter” means that her reports are disinformation.
Time for the Solzhenitsyn quote:
“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying.”
Copy-paste-save.
Thanks.
“we pretend to work- they pretend to pay us”
old USSR saying
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” CIA Director William Casey, in a meeting with US President Ronald Reagan in February 1981.
Ironically impaired.
Good one !
Lefties have no sense of humor or irony. A sad bunch.
What is the BBC’s stated attitude about CV accuracy…
Search The BBC job website for CV and nothing consequential appears; however this article sums up the BBC’s attitude of “do as I say not as I do” or “what I say does not apply to me”;
“Five things to focus on in your CV”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53891570
These quotes, from two recruitment experts unconnected with The BBC are priceless;
“If you make something up on your CV you are likely to come unstuck at interview,” says Sarah Archer. “If there is a skill required for the job that you feel you don’t have, show how you can transfer a similar experience or how you are a quick learner.”
You cannot lie “because you will lose all credibility”, agrees Corinne Mills, but “that is not most people’s problem”, she adds”
Seems not to be a problem for Ms Spring as she climbs into anyone she and The BBC deem to be guilty of being “dis/misinformants”….world class hypocrites given the scale of the BBC’s uncorrected lies, false narratives and woke agendas on many topics but then no real surprise to anyone familiar with how the BBC are systematically destroying the Reithian reputation since 1922. Does she and DG give a toss – clearly not one jot.
At least Looney at BP is paying the price for “disinformation/omission” in his case. I doubt the BBC will do anything.
story tip
BP CEO Looney Quits Over Past Relationships With Colleagues (yahoo.com)
BP Plc Chief Executive Officer Bernard Looney has resigned effective immediately over the failure to fully disclose past relationships with colleagues.
Since taking the top job over three years ago, Looney has been the strongest advocate among the CEOs of the oil supermajors for a faster shift into low-carbon energy.
By looking at all the “new” buzz-words (pro)people and pro(journalist) are using since this decade started it´s all in all falls back on the word promulgate. The meaning of promulgate is to make (an idea, beliefs, etc.) known to as many people as possible through open declaration(s), “global boiling” is an example.
What is mis- and disinformation, as words, their easy to use qua words is tools, and these two words, the term itself as a (w)hole, is a lot easier to use compared to the more correct term, agnotology based on the simple question have you ever considered that the use of “global boiling” and calling people sceptics, mis- and disinformants, is a way to sell something through “frequencies” that are easy to speak but difficult to defend confrontet with other words when it comes to the question what is fake new(speak)?
I wonder if Marianna Spring knows what the definition on a free-thinker is, but in the end it all falls back to the word curiosity, an eager to learn instead of just being a pårrot sitting on a fence made on the free-rider problem and by rent-seeking behaviour.
By “free-thinker” MB1978 to Marianna Spring specialist disinformation reporter, BBC News.
And another nice, thanks, essay from your hand Eric…!!
I think lying on her CV makes her uniquely qualified.
Yes, exactly
Probably what the BBC was looking for, a liar to fit in with a staff that has no qualms about lying while branding others as liars.
I’m not surprised there is a Disinformation Specialist at the BBC. I’m not surprised that a Disinformation Specialist would lie.
I don’t think the BBC sees the irony in having a Disinformation Specialist.
Funny how the folks who appoint themselves as keepers of the truth don’t feel the need to present any evidence in support of their haughty pronouncements. She seems like the ideal person to fulfil this role at the BBC where journalism is a fleeting memory and propaganda is the present and the shining future. It would be ideal to let these people with no insight, logic or discipline live in a world shaped by their beliefs and suffer he consequences, while those of us with a smattering of common sense continue to build a better society.
It’s not a lie if you believe it.
Story tip – Precautionary Principle Extremism › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)
Did the BBC’s Specialist Disinformation Reporter Lie on her CV?
Telling me you are a brilliant reporter who exercises integrity and honesty when you have literally demonstrated the opposite was a terrible idea,” – Natalia Antelava, Coda Story
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/how-the-bbcs-disinformation-correspondent-lied-on-her-cv/
Yes. Give that girl a job at the BBC
Is there a BBC “Department Of One” that can accommodate her..?
Who knows?
https://youtu.be/e6Y2uQn_wvc?si=gCmvdRxDYqxtPiEe
She is talking about COVID deniers pivoting to become CC deniers, yet GW/AGW/CAGW/CC/CCC/Global Boiling deniers, yet rational thinkers have been sceptical of Climate Alarm long before the pandemic. Doesn’t appear to understand time.
And I apologize for the use of “denier” – just fits her narrative.
Root issue is similar- “official” stories that seem to have holes.
Rational thinkers look at the evidence first, before even starting to cogitate.
By current standards the ability to pass on a lie without apparent detection is surely a must for all employees of the now very unpleasant BBC culture. After all how could it continue to get away with stuff if all its employees started to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
BBC employees no longer recognise what truth is, they’ve been pushing their own brand narrative for so long now that it is all they know. Trying to correct their disinformation is no longer possible; the whole corporation is corrupt and must go.
Raising the question- who thrives in a culture like that? Someone thrives.
It’s not a question of who thrives but who benefits as always.
Silent Spring? One can hope. Though a lot of people make poor decisions when under 30 yo.
Also the U.S. Supreme Court is responsible for stopping one of the most obvious selection criteria for selecting employees for intellectual jobbs – IQ test. What do such tests measure? I can’t say but I’d love a statistical analysis vs SAT and ACT. I bet Spring would have done well on all of those tests, which is why they are merely “one of”. The others usually come out of n the interview.
CV? As a document it is evidence that a person can follow some standard format while maintaining consistent text format. Experience says as soon as I call out a specific crime CV writer commits (spelling, punctuation, whatever) I’ll pins an example of that same crime in my own comment here… right after I click “post”.
Yep. Riddled with text errors.
She is a first hand expert.
Oddly, that sample of her writing is completely fact-free. All she does is accuse the pattern recognitionists of being wrong. To paraphrase Monty Python, “An argument isn’t just the automatic gainsaying of everything the other person says.”
It can be.
The Epoch Times is the only major news outlet actually doing honest journalism by reporting what is being censored at most all other sources. They have been featuring scientific studies that expose the lies mainstream media has been promoting. They are the 4th most read news source now so there is hope that the brainwashed can eventually be exposed to information outside the closed loop of perception they have been imprisoned.
I met the Australian editor of Epoch Times a month ago, and thanked him personally for giving Willie Soon a platform, after the BBC tried to smear him in a documentary
I don’t care what Marianna thinks or says. She means nothing to me.
“We all make mistakes when we are young….” A typical lefty deflection and equivalency with a juvenile everyone-does-it argument.
Well, not everyone, Marianna. Especially not by genuine adult professionals’ falsifying their CVs, especially when the fraud is easily discovered.
Takes a fraud to sell a fraud – like the entire global-warming fraud.
I have come to the conclusion, having watched the BBC for several decades, that the fundamental problem at that organisation is that they simply do not know what disinformation actually is. There is nobody in the command chain of that organisation who has the knowledge and the view on the bigger picture and the clout to change things. So a position of disinformation correspondent was created on the hoof and given to an incompetent imposter.
I would have to say that the fundamental problem in the BBC is a complete lack of competent management. They can make programs but they cannot manage their staff properly – the fact that a ‘BBC culture’ was able to develop without managers directing their staff away from the constant lies and disinformation speaks volumes. I think they know what disinformation is – it’s anything that contradicts the elements of ‘BBC culture’ and anything that lies outside of their own confirmation bias; basically a reversal of what most people would consider disinformation.
Maybe the managers were too busy directing their staff towards the constant lies and disinformation?
Like I said, a lack of competent management.
She created five fake Americans and opened social media accounts for them, part of an attempt to illustrate how disinformation spreads …
Marianna Spring tries to understand US politics by creating fake Americans (nypost.com)
She wouldn’t have needed to go that far, all she needed to do was look at pre Musk Twitter fact checking to see how fast government mandated disinformation can spread.
She is a leftarded moron, of course she lies, liespewing is all leftards have.
Embellishing her CV eg I reported on the WC in Russia were I nutmegged Putin, would be e the sort of thing the BBC were looking for.
Curriculum Vitae (CV) is Latin for “course of life.” In contrast, resume is French for “summary.”
See, it’s not hard to define an acronym the first time you use it. It would have saved me from having to look it up. Is “CV” a British thing, because I had never heard of it before now. Maybe I’m just old, but every job I ever applied for requested a resume, not a CV.
I’ve never been asked for a resume, only ever a CV. It seems to be a UK, Ireland, New Zealand and EU thing, whereas resume’s seem to be very much a Canada and USA thing. No idea about other countries and I had to look this much up.
It would have been highly informative if either The New European, or Eric would have explained what the acronym CV means. To a mechanic it is ‘constant velocity’, to the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) [see what I did there?] it means ‘commercial vehicle’.
I had never heard of Curriculum Vitae before today. I’ve only known resumé. Have only ever been asked for a resumé.
I was taught in class to always provide the definition of an acronym the first time it is ever used in anything written. Not everyone has the same background knowledge.
It is awkward – I can’t remember the number of times I’ve felt frustrated when somebody uses an acronym that must be very common with them but completely unknown to me. This was one time when that situation was reversed, I’ve been using ‘CV’ since school and it’s an extremely common acronym in the UK.
Probably true, and it’s a good thing. Now that so many people realize their elected public servants lied to them during the pandemic, they’re naturally more open to considering that they’ve also been lied to on “climate change”. They also probably realize that the same mainstream press which swallowed and repeated all the COVID lies are no more trustworthy on climate change or any other topic.
This is progress.
The BBC is adept at distributing disinformation on social media.
The original undoctored image by photographer Jakob Gojda of the turtle in its natural, plastic-bag-free environment is here:
https://www.jakubgojda.com/underwater?pgid=j9cyba45-f45e1931-3840-464c-b7e3-fb59cec9c4de
[From Jakob’s ‘Underwater’ portfolio: https://www.jakubgojda.com ]
Absolutely shocking
Is this any surprise? After all doesn’t BBC stand for Blazingly (morally) Bankrupt Company?
Small point.
Did mask wearing have any measured effect on increasing or decreasing the death rate, or the infection rate, in the Covid-19 pandemic?
(FWIW, my reading suggests masks had no measurable effect, but I might be reading the wrong papers, so I do not know the answer.)
If my case is shared by this BBC disinformation head, surely she is spreading disinformation herself by comments quoted above, casting aspersions on that group of people who opposed mask wearing.
Geoff S
Geoff,
There is evidence that wearing a mask is more hazardous than not.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/12/cdc-study-finds-overwhelming-majority-of-people-getting-coronavirus-wore-masks/
“Did mask wearing have any measured effect on increasing or decreasing the death rate, or the infection rate, in the Covid-19 pandemic?”
Short answer NO – even N95 masks shown to have little to no effect’. My reading of studies and precis’s thereof indicated that masks as mandated and supplied have “holes” many times bigger than the aerosol delivered virus….to say zilch about the gaps visible….
See point 10 with onward links: https://swprs.org/covid19-facts/
Timeline of other very inconvenient events for those of the “safe and effective” blx here:
https://brownstone.org/articles/what-we-knew-in-the-early-days/
Well, if you want someone to lie and spread disinformation for you, the obvious thing to do is hire someone with experience who been successful.
Apparently she has not been seen on TV since the scandal broke. A holiday in Siberia, or joining Huw Edwards at The Priory?