March 7, 2022
How the federal government bought pro-Covid vax propaganda (and silenced critical voices)
By Thomas Lifson
Voices urging caution over the experimental mRNA shots that were relentlessly promoted throughout the media (and by the medical establishment) were confined to independent media like American Thinker until quite recently, when the evidence of adverse effects and lack of efficacy became almost impossible to ignore. How did such media uniformity, encompassing all ideological stripes from Fox News and Newsmax to MSNBC and the Washington Post, come about?
According to reports by Chris Pandolfo in The Blaze and Emerald Robinson in Substack, taxpayers financed an unprecedented advertising campaign in virtually every major national media outlet that resulted in uniformly positive coverage of the vaccines rushed to market to combat COVID. Not just the ads themselves, but the news coverage offered by these outlets positively covered the jabs, and suppressed questions about them from skeptics.
If these charges are true, they amount to an abdication of independent journalism and membership in a propaganda machine on the part of outlets that claim advertising does not affect their editorial stances.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/03/how_the_federal_government_bought_procovid_vax_propaganda_and_silenced_critical_voices.html
