Since early summer, online Swedish news papers have been letting visitors to their sites take part in polls and answer weather they will take the "swine flu" vaccine or not. Having read most of these polls, I know that the vast majority of them have shown that about 45-50% of the voters will refuse the "swine flu" shot. This stands in stark contrast to the recent government ordered poll of the Swedish population which surprisingly showed that 70% of the people asked had decided to take the "swine flu" vaccine. It is not unusual to use such polls, tweak their results and present them to convince the people to make certain choices. It most likely is a common practice. That would explain the very different results from the poll made by the government and the polls made on sites the government do not have a chance to mess with.
Polls showing a strong unwillingness to take the "swine flu" vaccine are rather quickly removed from the main sites of the Swedish news paper web sites. No articles are writen with a follow up or comment on these results.
Readers comments to obvious propaganda articles in Swedish media have been systematically removed if they have raised valid arguments against the mass vaccination or if they contained links to web sites where better information is available. Placing a link to this web site have been rewarded with quick deletion of the comment. If a propaganda article had overwhelmingly negative response from readers, too many comments to deal with, then the article is rather quickly moved from the front page of the web site. It seems Swedish media have had a lot of work to do while trying to manage readers reactions to the propaganda and to still maintain the official guidelines from WHO and the Swedish government.
For anyone having experience of Swedish news papers, the propaganda machine in this case is clearly obvious, and so much so that even normal citizens in Sweden get an uncomfortable feeling from it and question the bias.
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