RFK Jr. Says Fox News Didn’t Run Negative Vaccine Stories to Keep Big Pharma Advertisers

The Epoch Times ^ | 06/05/2023 | Samantha From

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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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I read a great long interview with/article about RFK, Jr. I might even have posted it here (too lazy to look).

And he made the point that TV stations derive A LOT of their income from those annoying drug ads, and maybe that affects their coverage.

I had to admit that had never crossed my mind, but it does seem quite plausible.

He was anti-vax before anti-vax was cool on our side. Didn’t and don’t agree with him on all vaccines. But he has been consistent, unlike so many. And he is not cowed at all by the media, etc. And I do not think he is a crook.