RFK Jr. Explains How Pharma Advertising Dollars Have Completely Captured the Media

Robert F Kennedy Jr. Explains How Pharma Advertising Dollars Have Completely Captured the Media

There used to be no direct-to-consumer advertising of pharmaceutical products on TV. The FDA changed the law that prohibited it in 1997.

And when that happened, “it launched a tsunami of pharmaceutical dollars into the advertising space and gave the pharmaceutical companies control not only of the platform for advertising their products but also control of content on the nightly news,” informed Kennedy.

Roger Ailes, a former Fox News executive, once told Kennedy that if any of his hosts allowed him on TV to talk about mercury vaccines, he would be forced to fire them because “75% of his advertising revenues for the nightly news shows were at that point coming from pharma.”