Trial by media is increasingly becoming the status quo of our world. No matter if it’s true or not, we are often presumed guilty until proven innocent.
Like many others in the world, we know this first-hand at Lighthouse Global, and are taking a stand against the Goliath that is the legacy media.
On 19th September we wrote to Kevin Costello CEO of Haymarket Global to invite them to be part of our pioneering David vs Goliath live showdown of Lighthouse vs The BBC. We also asked them to seriously consider removing “A Very British Cult” from the British Podcast Awards nominee list, given how it is provably part of a vicious smear campaign against Lighthouse. Unsurprisingly on 20th September, they declined with an anonymous email. We then responded on 25th September and are sharing our email below for transparency.
Our response below shows we will not just accept being smeared by the legacy media. We will fight for the truth and for justice where it is absolutely necessary.
Dealing with Professional Trolls
Haymarket’s initial response to us is a typical and to-be-expected corporate response to shut down any legitimate challenge that questions their authority. Please note, the response we received from Haymarket was anonymous. Not one employee or executive at Haymarket had the courage to put their name to this response. It was an anonymous response from a corporate machine. While there is a time and a place for anonymity, it is often used by predatory trolls to hide behind, so that they dare not face the consequences of their actions.
Live, Raw, in Real Time: Our Right to Respond to the BBC
Our experience with legacy media is that it’s one rule for them, and another for us. They can run an entire so-called investigation on anyone they want to, invade their privacy, steal private documents, have the backing of a global corporate’s resources. But when we, the general public and hardworking men and women, want to question them?
Silence…
How is this fair? Impartial? Robust? Balanced? All the things that BBC claims they stand for?
We are demanding our right to respond to the BBC, live, raw, in real-time, unedited. The very first (of many) David vs Goliath showdown: Lighthouse vs The BBC.
Click here to read our first open letter to Kevin Costello at Haymarket
The BBC is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, their values and virtues are just corporate speak, as they don’t live them. They lack integrity, they lie, they cheat and twist while trying to look professional and above board. I guess they are a dying breed and they are fighting for survival. I guess Haymarket are no different if I were to read into their reply, their cold, very indifferent response to damning evidence. I’m so glad we are revealing the horrid nature of these organisations to the world, that they have a nice welcoming facade, but behind the mask, who are cutthroat in looking after their self-interest. That’s coming through with their behaviour.
It’s very telling that the replies from Haymarket are anonymous. This cowardice flies in the face of the brand that Kevin Costello and Haymarket like to portray. On Haymarket’s website, Mr Costello is quoted as saying the following,
“We win because our people do. Everything is underpinned by our values, chief among which is integrity – without which we are nothing.” (https://haymarket.com/about-us/)
According to the Haymarket site, the reason that integrity is a core value is because “Trust sustains our business”. In case Haymarket are not aware, Stephen M.R. Covey wrote a book called “The Speed of Trust” and in that book, the two pillars of trust are character and competence. On this occasion, Mr Costello and Haymarket have fallen short when it comes to acting in a trustworthy manner, based on both their character and competence.
The British Podcast Awards strike me to be a corrupt, self-congratulatory event. The fact that a podcast in the documentary category that lacks journalistic integrity and is based on 143+ provable falsehoods can win a bronze award shows a sheer lack of integrity.
Once again this is an example of promoting mainstream media’s clickbait culture (https://www.lighthousecommunity.global/post/the-war-against-clickbait-vultures-fighting-for-truth-authenticity) and a lack of duty of care as we’ve seen with the Insolvency Service (https://davidvsgoliath.global/a-gross-failure-in-their-duty-of-care-by-michael-bint-and-the-uk-insolvency-services/)
One who walks in integrity walks securely, But one who perverts his ways will be found out. – Proverbs 10:9
“If it bleeds, it leads!”
This is the mass media mantra for getting newspaper sales, likes, views, ratings… anything to make a quick buck!
What this malevolent, evil and self-centred paradigm leads to is making up stories of wrongdoing and pain, even where none exists. To sell a story, there must be a ‘bad guy’ to blame and hate, even if that means bending facts out of proportion to make one up.
Haymarket – heavily intertwined with the BBC – is just another cog in the money making machine that is mainstream media.
Regardless of who they hurt and damage along the way.
With the one rule for you one for us philosophy the legacy media adopt, it is out to be extremely alarming for the everyday man and woman, who look to these so called institutions who feed us information and have great influence in the everyday person’s life. Many of them, as you can, cannot be trusted to be driven by a moral compass, by a conscience. Whoever sent this email, knew it would be incriminating, so 1. Left their name off, in true professional and charlatan form and 2. Even though they knew we have this in written form, clearly felt confident and supported by other charlatans to send this across! What else are they “leaving out”, “leaving off”, ignoring?!
As well as their disturbing pig-ignorance in supporting this false documentary (A Very British Cult) (starring a thief (Dawn Ingram) and countless predatory trolls (Joanne Holmes, Richard Thomas and co), the other awardees ought to at least be curious as to whether they had a fair shot in these category awards. Furthermore, what is the purpose of these awards if nameless people who sent this email, are making decisions amongst themselves, people who clearly lack any sense of morality. Extremely extremely disturbing and disgraceful!
Censored and muted… These two words coming straight to mind when reading the so-called response from Haymarket, their response reeks of dismissal, lack of care and even just ANY sort of investigation, surprise, surprise, much like the BBC documythry they are complicit in supporting.
Once again and much like the BBC, after the offer for speak and show the evidence that we have there is a decline of invitation. Please correct me if I am wrong but no acknowledgement of the invitation is a decline to me.
It is really sad, to say the least that these things are happening within the world, where the media has become so biased and functions on clickbait articles and false stories dripping in lies to make it’s money, especially from what was once a well respected organisation like the BBC. Now the likes of Haymarket prostituting itself for the ever present threat of cancel culture.
This correspondence with Haymarket and Lighthouse is the very reason there needs to be a groundswell of people coming together and standing for the truth. This is why I and many are standing up to this abuse. I do hope and pray that those reading this, especially those within the BBC and Haymarket will make their wrongs right and reform through this.
The BBC and the legacy media in general have their own agenda and nothing can stop them from a good story even if that means they have to lie. Reading this communication with Haymarket shows that they don’t care. They are not interested in the well-being of human beings, they just want to have a good show.
The so-called “documentary” about Lighthouse International Group is full of lies and myths and is more of a “documythary” and shouldn’t have been nominated in the first place.
We need to come together and hold the legacy media accountable for not telling the truth. That’s why DavidVsGoliath.global is so important! 🙏🏻
Wow, this is such a powerful, profound and based in fact and truth email to Mr Costello and co. There is nothing else to say to that apart from yes! We need David vs Goliath, we need people to stand for the truth because this is the exact reason why these things happen when we don’t and when people don’t! We must stand up for ourselves, if anyone else and those who are vulnerable. The tyranny of the media and those so called in power needs to be stopped and brought to its knees. It’s corrupt, fallacious, schemes and unscrupulous and dishonest individuals need to be held to rights! Starting in ourselves, and where we have got it wrong, but where they have for it wrong, they must be held to rights. God bless us all. Thank you for sharing this email with the public and maintain the standard of transparency that is needed in this situation. I pray that we all repent, and that I’m continuing on this journey of repentance and contrition and forgiveness to our Lord Jesus Christ. And that these institutions and people are held to rights 🙏🏻 God bless us all and help us all. Amen.
This was one of the most revealing replies I’ve seen from Haymarket. Anonymous… impersonal… no responsibility… wiping their hands from the criminal BBC media they are endorsing. They ought to have a long, hard look at the very sources behind the BBC’s so-called investigation: https://www.lighthousecommunity.global/post/lighthouse-international-group-s-troll-assault-false-accusation-register
And then once they have done that they ought to check out the testimonies from all the people who have been helped by Lighthouse and do value our help… conveniently left out of the one-sided ‘investigation…
https://lighthouseglobal.family/what-would-happen-if-lighthouse-global-didnt-exist/
I very much agree that it is trial by media! The problem is that the media and in particular the legacy media lies because they have an agenda of keeping the power they have amassed through systematic abuse accumulated over decades. This is compounded by an increased number of journalists who are becoming professional trolls to further their careers. I’m not surprised by Haymarket not doing the right thing, their paymasters are the BBC. Very similar to Ofcom who are partly funded by the BBC.
The nominated podcast in question details a so-called “investigation” in part instigated by the family of Mel Francis.
You can read the truth of what she is suffering – in her own words – at the hands of her own family, in particular her half-sister here:
https://www.lighthousecommunity.global/post/taking-tania-francis-of-hempsons-to-court-leaving-the-cult-of-my-coercive-controlling-family
The incestuous nature of the media is becoming increasingly obvious to everyone and most rational people are moving away from mainstream and legacy media. These back-slapping awards are just another example of that. The fact that the Podcast awards couldn’t even have the courtesy to put a name on their reply says it all. They didn’t withdraw the program yet they didn’t give them the award because they know it’s a mess they don’t want to get involved in. 143 falsehoods in the program which have been reported to Ofcom.
For more context watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhUmc-17H-w
The muted and cowardly response from Haymarket really says it all for me. Compare that to the principle centred and very fair, human and resolute email they have been sent by Lighthouse and there is a very clear contrast in the integrity to and nobility of character and values. Yet, Lighthouse are supposedly the ‘cult’! The fact people can be so quick to believe in trial-by-media while being so unawares and naive to how they actually operate and what their true motives are is deeply concerning. The real cult is the mainstream media endorsed agenda and culture that has so many following along and singing its tune with very low or no critical thinking, scepticism and commitment to truth. We all ought to be very worried about the kind of world people today are sleepwalking into where propaganda rules and rigorous commitment to truth is so disregarded it has no value. The mainstream media are the new Roman circus, the modern day colosseum as is described here, where the masses are so distracted that they don’t see the tyranny being committed by the few in power. What strikes me reading this is how Haymarket were invited to get back to Lighthouse if they had got this wrong, yet their reply said nothing to that. I am sure that anyone with reason, sense, rationality and objectivity will look at this situation and see exactly what is going on and how the corporate machines are working to protect and look after each other’s backs putting the value of the £ or $ ahead of our humanity.
This is a very good overview and description of the background to this situation and what the BBC have done that Haymarket are supporting! https://www.lighthousecommunity.global/post/a-very-british-broadcasting-cult-from-lighthouse-global-media