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Jane Hansen Journalist and the Internet Troll: whatever happened

to fair and balanced reporting?

On the 22 June 2014 journalist Jane Hansen published a series of three short articles in the

Sunday Telegraph. These articles were filled with false claims against Universal Medicine and the

many misrepresentations obviously mirrored the material published on Esther Rocketts blog-sites

by Esther Rockett and Lance Martin and other material distributed by the pair in a bogus Press

Kit.

The Sunday Telegraph journalist Jane Hansen had been directed to information that would have

alerted her to the calibre of her sources, yet she chose to follow the ill advised path of relying

upon exposed cyber-bullies as the source of material for her articles.

Beyond the false claims and misrepresentations, what was also clearly muddied by the journalist

was confusion between Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine and the separate and distinct entity

the College of Universal Medicine. In her article in the Sunday Telegraph on 22 June 2014 New-

age esoteric breast and ovary massage healer under investigation over alleged charity law

violationsJane Hansen confusingly refers to Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine, and the College

of Universal Medicine as if they share one and the same financial structure or are financially

intertwined, they are not. There is only one aspect in which there is any financial relationship

between Universal Medicine and the College and that is that Serge Benhayon is a major

benefactor of the charity, in this regard his donations and charitable activities are extensive and

extend far beyond any personal advantage. Jane Hansen confuses the charitable work of the

College with the business enterprise Universal Medicine.

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Her approach to Serge Benhayon completely mixed up two separate and very distinct organizations

for clarification (that is not at all apparent in Jane Hansens article)

Universal Medicine is a Northern New South Wales business that offers courses and

private sessions in universal medicine therapies. Mr Benhayon is the founder and an

employee.

The College of Universal Medicine is a registered charitable educational organization. It is a

distinct entity to Universal Medicine and was set up independently. It has no relationship to

the business of Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon is not part of the management

structure of that organization. He is not part of the running of the charity.

At the time that Jane Hansen of the Sunday Telegraph approached Serge Benhayon she did not

make it clear that she was seeking information specifically on the College of Universal Medicine,

she merely reported that she was currently compiling a story on Universal Medicine and the

College of UM and have some questions I would like to put to you.When she did not get the

response that she sought she added that Serious allegations have been raised that are now

before the Office of Liquor Gaming and Racing and the Department of Fair Trading. I am a

journalist; it is my duty to put these allegations to you for your response.

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When pressed, Ms Hansen said that she had been tipped off by a politician and it has been

more recently revealed that Ms Hansens tip-off was the Opposition Spokesman for Health, Dr

Andrew McDonald, who sent Hanson copies of the complaints

on June 12 with the obvious implication that they might

merit a story. It remains unclear how Dr Andrew McDonald had

copies of these questionable complaints before they

were in fact duly processed as active complaints,

however the UM Facts Team notes that the complaints were to

departments outside Dr Macdonalds portfolio.

It is easy to predict the calibre of the complaint if consideration is given to Lance Martins profile

and blog contributions and the bogus Press Kit that falsely condemned Serge Benhayon and

Universal Medicine with outrageous claims of money laundering, sexual misconduct with clients and

with minors and covert hypnosis to name a few. All such claims are easily proven false, but this

has not prevented Rockett and Martin repeating them and repeating them, with an aim that if they

are repeated often enough their lies might be treated as fact.

We have to ask, what credibility can a journalist have who relies upon the lies of

exposed cyber-bullies and internet trolls? The lies Esther Rockett and Lance Martin

have promulgated on Esther Rocketts blog sites are extraordinary, and become

ever more so, as they manufacture increasingly outlandish and disgraceful lies,

built on innuendo and deceit. Any reasonable reader might have pause to question

the truth of such allegations simply by examining the sheer breadth of them. What

also is extraordinary is that a journalist, of what appears to be a soundbackground, is listening to them!

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Given the source of Ms Hansens story and her angle it was predictable that Ms

Hansen would report that a complaint had been made and make this the

foundation of the story. The report would of course use the complaint as an

implication that there must have been wrongdoing since a complaint somehow

validates the accusations. It of course does not, a complaint is merely that a

complaint. It does not suddenly get authentication as truth because it is made.

But it is the false assumption, that a complaint somehow validates what are nomore than spurious and fictitious complaints that has given Lance Martin and

Esther Rockett traction with the media.