“Watch this 0:55 second montage of Pfizer sponsorship of Big Media.
“Brought to you by Pfizer”
They are all bought off. “
There was a BIG DEBATE about ever letting prescription drugs be advertised to the general public, since the general public could not go out and simply buy them.
Our side thought that the drug companies simply wanted patients to pressure doctors into prescribing statins and other harmful garbage. The drug companies eventually won.
And while pressuring doctors was partly true, the real motivation wasn’t in the advertising, it was in threat to PULL ADVERTISING if a media outlet ran a negative story.
And so just like that, the same drug companies that were DEMONIZED by the Left through the 1980s are now HEROES to the Left and you will NEVER hear another negative story about a drug or drug company on network news...they simply cannot afford it.
Yep, I remember when it was not legal to advertise Rx drugs.
I completely agree with your observations.
The ads that show obvious bribes of the media are the drug ads that say something like, “As your doctor if xyz is right for you”. Nowhere in the ad is there any mention of what xyz is even for. Why would I as my doctor if it’s right for me? What is it?
Who is the Dr. Malone on this issue of threatening to pulling advertising? Other than Robert Kennedy Jr. who is a second observer.