Posted on 03/08/2022 6:17:09 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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The U.S. government ran a ‘comprehensive’ media relations program that paid millions of dollars to media outlets to influence the American public to be ‘pro-vaccine.’ This program included purchasing advertising from some of the biggest TV and digital media outlets, which subsequently failed in almost every instance to report the conflict of interest, accompanied by near-uniformly positive and uncritical Covid vaccine reportage.
The government documents describing the media relations program were reported by The Blaze in an “exclusive.”
“In response to a FOIA request filed by TheBlaze, HHS revealed that it purchased advertising from major news networks including ABC, CBS, and NBC, as well as cable TV news stations Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC, legacy media publications including the New York Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post, digital media companies like BuzzFeed News and Newsmax, and hundreds of local newspapers and TV stations,” The Blaze’s story notes. “These outlets were collectively responsible for publishing countless articles and video segments regarding the vaccine that were nearly uniformly positive about the vaccine in terms of both its efficacy and safety.”
“Hundreds of news organizations were paid by the federal government to advertise for the vaccines as part of a ‘comprehensive media campaign,'” according to documents TheBlaze obtained from the Department of Health and Human Services. “The Biden administration purchased ads on TV, radio, in print, and on social media to build vaccine confidence, timing this effort with the increasing availability of the vaccines. The government also relied on earned media featuring “influencers” from ‘communities hit hard by COVID-19’ and ‘experts’ like White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci and other academics to be interviewed and promote vaccination in the news.”
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They subsidized their lying mouthpieces with our tax dollars.
I thought they had NPR for their propaganda.
This explains the Cumulus Media vs Dan Bongino conflict.
They were getting paid.
Using our money to preach lies to us.
This is the same for the whole leftist agenda.
But we already knew that.
The craziest thing is you don’t need to be a conspiracy theorist to see that THE SAME SOURCES ARE GIVING CONTRADICTORY “NEWS” - They themselves planted the seeds of skepticism.
“News” bought and paid for with your tax dollars.
Plus, the highly-politicized CDC and FDA - basically Democrat propagandists in lab coats - were always there to provide a handy story about how cheap alternatives like ivermectin were “useless horse-paste” or “dangerous” or some other lie, which Big Media then re-played endlessly
the level of brainwashing was almost Soviet-like ... (but FR remained an oasis of sanity)
We had a few of those Rand Corp. types right here pushing their little pricks.
When agents of a representative government lobbies the people, it pits itself against the people it allegedly represents.
By the way, isn’t there a law that requires paid ads to be identified as such?
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It was ALWAYS about the vaccine...
That is sedition.
Thanks for posting.
Yep.
Depopulation and control.
all new media outlets are National Public Radio, TV, Cable, Twitter, FaceBook, Pintrest, etc. Internet, Commercials, etc. now.
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