Posted on 03/08/2022 9:56:35 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Department of Health and Human Services paid for advertising of COVID-19 vaccines on hundreds of media outlets, even as the outlets often provided positive coverage of the vaccines.
Despite the marketing campaign, polls have shown Americans had mixed views on the vaccines as the year progressed.
Responding to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by The Blaze, HHS revealed that it had purchased advertising from major media outlets such as ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, BuzzFeed News, and Newsmax, in addition to hundreds of local TV stations and newspapers. The outlets provided mostly positive coverage of the COVID vaccines' efficacy and safety.
In spring of last year, Congress appropriated $1 billion for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director "to strengthen vaccine confidence in the United States … provide further information and education with respect to vaccines … and to improve rates of vaccination throughout the United States."
The Biden administration paid for advertisements on hundreds of news platforms, according to The Blaze, as part of its "COVID-19 Public Education Campaign," a "comprehensive media campaign" to "educate people about the importance of vaccination and basic prevention measures to prevent COVID-19 and protect public health."
Some media outlets aired HHS commercials with celebrities promoting the vaccine, and others sympathetically covered "fear-based vaccine ads" from COVID patients who survived after being hospitalized in intensive care units.
News outlets said they have firewall policies in place under which the advertising department and newsroom are independent of each other, The Blaze reported.
"Advertisers pay for space to share their messages, as was the case here, and those ads are clearly labeled as such," Washington Post Vice President of Communications Shani George told The Blaze in a statement. "The newsroom is completely independent from the advertising department."
According to public opinion polls, the American public's views on the vaccine have been mixed.
In a September poll, Fox News found that 65% of registered voters believed the vaccine was safe and effective, while 29% said it wasn't. However, by November, voters that said the vaccine was safe and effective dropped to 58%, and 30% believed it wasn't.
According to a March 2021 Rasmussen Reports poll, 67% of likely voters were confident in the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine. By August, that number increased to 70%, while 26% said they weren't confident, which was about the same as the March poll.
But by December, 54% of likely voters were concerned about the potential of harmful side effects from the vaccine, compared to 44% who were not, Rasmussen Reports found.
By late September, more than 500,000 adverse events were reported in the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) after receiving COVID vaccines.
Mike Rowe said the following:
‘The fact is, millions of reasonable Americans have every right to feel confused and skeptical.
‘Those people you refer to, Steve – the ones now telling us that we can “get back to normal just as soon as everyone is vaccinated” – those are the same people who said, “two weeks to flatten the curve!”
‘Those are the same people who told us that masks were “useless” before they told us they were “critical.”
‘Those are the same people who told us that a return to normalcy would occur just as soon as “the most vulnerable” among us were vaccinated. Then, just as soon as “half the population” was vaccinated. Then, just as soon as we achieved “herd immunity.”
‘Those are the same people who told us they wouldn’t trust ANY vaccine developed under the last administration. Now, those very same people are belittling the skeptics!’
Duh! It’s how frantically and desperately they advocate for it, with no visible basis in the risk from COVID nor benefit of the shot, that MAKE it so suspicious.
At no point did the media tell the public they may have a conflict of interest either.
This was a ‘pay off the Democrat propaganda machine’ effort. Just like ‘infrastructure money’ going to bail out failing newspapers.
If they had used the words “experts say” more in headlines, they might have succeeded.
Government pimps and Media whores. The pimps always give their whores their cut.
That’s right; “truth” had nothing to do with it. It was to funnel taxpayer dollars to outlets taxpayers had abandoned due to their outrageous lying.
“This was a ‘pay off the Democrat propaganda machine’ effort.”
Using OUR tax dollars.
While pharmaceutical korporations and government employees will try to claim immunity, the Propaganda Media outlets have none and can be sued by those who've been injured from the Jim Jones Jabs and sued by the families of those who died from them.
They lied. They told victims that the Jim Jones Jabs were safe and 100% effective.
On a related note, the Propaganda Media outlets claim that they "have firewall policies in place under which the advertising department and newsroom are independent of each other" is an outright lie.
Biggest con job in history - these vaccines are.
And the freepers who shrilled for these vaccine benefits should feel embarrased that they were sucked in.
OUR tax dollars to fund the Democrat feedback loop.
The ‘rights advocacy’ leftist groups were paid off a couple of ways as well. First, they’d sue and keep the suit going. When Obama or Biden are in office = big payoff.
Second, the DOJ settled suits by having the defendants (some company accused of racism, for example) to settle the suit by giving 3rd party advocacy groups a pile of cash.
Third, the corporations were shaken down by a billion dollars or more by Black Lives Matter to create a slush fund. Nobody knows where that money went but the corporations were able to write off the ‘donations’ (extortion) because these groups are tax-exempt (and never audited).
OK, I’ll throw the number out.
600,000+ Americans were killed by the CDC / Fauci ‘death protocol’ for CoVID which removed prophylaxis and early treatment per the Zelenko protocol. Zelenko had 1 death per 1000 patients.
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