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TV Drug Ads Are Not About Selling More Pharmaceuticals, They’re About Big Pharma Buying off the Media
Liberty Daily ^ | Feb. 21, 2024 | Ethan Huff

Posted on 02/21/2024 10:50:45 AM PST by Red Badger

All those obnoxious pharmaceutical commercials that get laced into just about every television and cable “news” program that airs in the United States these days might seem like they are simply about selling more drugs and getting people hooked, but Big Pharma’s true agenda is actually much more sinister than that.

Former pharmaceutical industry insider Calley Means spoke to Tucker Carlson recently about what he described as an “open secret” within the pharmaceutical industry. In essence, Means says that Big Pharma is buying the media with all those ads, which allows the drug industry to control what gets broadcasted on television and across the internet.

“You’re saying that pharma buys TV spots not to convince people to ask for specific drugs from their physicians, but to subvert the news business?” Carlson asked Means during the segment.

“This is an open secret working for pharma,” Means responded. “The kind of silly ads you see between the news breaks, the point of that is not – it’s largely to impact the customer. But pharma has already got that. They’ve already bought off the doctors. They’re good on that.”

“The news ad spending from pharma is a public relations lobbying tactic, essentially to buy off the news,” Means continued. “They’re not investigating pharma. The news has become basically a referee. That you are a terrible anti-science luddite for asking why the shots that we require our kids to get, that fundamentally by their own advertising change the immune system of that child for life.”

The full interview is available for viewing below:

VIDEO AT LINK...................

American media controlled by Big Pharma Functioning as referees, Big Pharma-controlled media outlets basically steer the conversation about a given matter in favor of drugs and vaccines while denigrating any and all who question them, including media talking-heads and personalities who almost always shill for the pharmaceutical industry.

The news referees questions about Big Pharma “when the two largest vaccine makers in the country are literally criminal enterprises. GlaxoSmithKline and Merck, in the past five years, have settled two of the largest criminal penalties in American corporate history for bribing doctors and creating misleading research,” Means further revealed.

“So, you literally have the media playing referee so that you can’t even ask a question.”

The tens of thousands, if not millions, of Americans who were injured by Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) “vaccines” are having a really tough time getting their stories told on the “news” for precisely this reason – because to tell such stories is equated as being “anti-science,” according to the pharma-controlled media.

Keep in mind that the U.S. is something of an anomaly when it comes to drug advertising. In most other countries, advertising prescription drugs directly to consumers is illegal, which is why non-U.S. news is typically more honest and hard-hitting.

Consider the Bangkok Post, a popular media source out of Thailand that recently ran a story about the dangers of COVID injections. Such a story would never be published by the so-called “legacy” media here in the United States because drug companies would likely retaliate by defunding U.S. media sources in retaliation.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: advertisements; bigpharma; media
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To: Fledermaus

more like 175 lbs.


21 posted on 02/21/2024 12:46:16 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

LOL! Seriously. LOL!


22 posted on 02/21/2024 12:51:35 PM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: Red Badger

So does big pharma want to sell us drugs or kill us? It can’t be both, right? (Not to you specifically Red)


23 posted on 02/21/2024 12:56:16 PM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: Red Badger

This is more obvious when you see ads for companies like Boeing or Norfolk Southern Railways on TV. Does anyone really think a business executive makes a decision about purchasing a $250 million passenger jet, or transporting 2,000 carloads of freight every month, based on what he sees in a TV ad?


24 posted on 02/21/2024 12:57:35 PM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: subterfuge

They used to bribe Doctors to prescribe their potions and that’s the way it worked for many decades. Vacations, cruises, trips to ‘conferences’ in Aruba, etc..............


25 posted on 02/21/2024 12:58:08 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: SaxxonWoods

The pharmaceutical industry doesn’t need to advertise COVID jabs. They’ve got every talking head and political figure doing the advertising for them.


26 posted on 02/21/2024 1:01:00 PM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: Red Badger

Homos creating ad campaigns.


27 posted on 02/21/2024 1:29:17 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.")
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To: Dan in Wichita
I’m old enough to remember when pharmaceutical companies were forbidden to pitch their drugs on TV.

I'm old enough to remember when lawyers didn't advertise on TV, because it was considered unprofessional. Those days are gone.

28 posted on 02/21/2024 2:30:44 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: SaxxonWoods
“Maybe they are just paralyzed by fear”

And such people are dangerous to themselves and others. That is the lesson of “COVID”.

The true character and nature of a man (or woman) is revealed in the face of fear, and the vast majority of people revealed themselves to be of low character and animal nature.

29 posted on 02/21/2024 5:28:17 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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