Posted on 06/06/2023 12:05:48 PM PDT by thegagline
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Fox News barred content that reflected negatively on vaccines to appease its big-money advertisers in the pharmaceutical industry.
During a June 5 Twitter Spaces interview with the platform’s owner, Elon Musk, Kennedy disclosed that he approached former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes in 2016 about doing a story on the mercury content in vaccines but was shut down.
“He said that any of his hosts who allowed me on TV to talk about this, that he would be forced to fire them,” Kennedy recalled. “And he said that 75 percent of his advertising revenues for the nightly news shows were at that point coming from pharma.”
According to Kennedy, Ailes was sympathetic to his cause but knew that such a story would result in a call from Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch “within 10 minutes.” *** So many Americans today feel like the promise of democracy has been a bait and switch, and that we’re no longer living in a democratic system where we are actually the sovereign of our own destinies,” he said.
Money, drugs, and large corporations, he said, had turned the government into an “instrument of corporate power” that was being wielded against U.S. citizens.
And the media, he contended, has been complicit in that process. ***
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Was watching Jesse Waters last night and he dropped the hammer on RFK, Jr. for not responding to Jesse’s invitation to come on his show. JW stated that RFK, Jr. has been on other Faux shows, but he gets no response to the invitation. He finally decided to rescind the invite and was banning RFK, Jr. until such time as JW decides to unban the man. JW has come to the conclusion it can only be “personal” for whatever the reason.
Just like every other network.
Based on your posting history, don’t you mean ‘Trump’?
They didn’t want to go against Trump.
Isn’t a lifetime of triple mask wearing enough suffering.
Hindsight is always 20/20.
I wonder what Jr thinks of bill barr.
Thank you Capt. Obvious.
Please distribute this story to ALL your friends, especially the ones who have no idea what’s been done to them.
Thank you, President Trump, for saving countless lives with Operation Warp Speed.
Now, did you even read this article that you, yourself, posted? RFK Jr. is against all vaccines in general, and his comments were about things that supposedly occurred long before COVID19 and related vaccines showed up.
What? That they likely can't get mumps, measles, and other diseases anymore thanks to the vaccines RFK Jr. wants to stop?
The answer to disagreement is, and MUST BE public debate in the plain light of day, NEVER CENSORSHIP. NEVER SILENCING VIEWPOINTS. that is the death of a free people, and the murder of Truth.
You still watch FNC?
Point understood - but make sure you are actually talking about the actual subject.
And magazines, who carry A LOT of drug ads.
As an addendum, also distribute quality refutations to his points; I don’t agree with all he says, but the essence of Science and Reason is questioning and challenging. The Communists have very literally declared war on Science and Reason.
JW is not watchable, that could be a reason.
Less measles and mumps, highly survivable diseases, but autism rates going straight up. I know what I would go for. The same plan my Mom and Dad went with. Vaccinations for Polio, Smallpox and that is all.
And a trip to the neighbors when their kids had chicken pox
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