A Conflict of Interest in the Newsroom
Here's how your tax dollars provide free marketing for mRNA inoculations. Big Pharma thanks you the taxpayer for increasing their profits.
A big shout out to TheBlaze for filing a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
(Thank you for doing some journalism. Refreshing!)
Through their findings, we now know that HHS spent over $1 billion in 2021 on a “comprehensive media campaign” intended to “increase public confidence in and uptake of COVID-19 vaccines while reinforcing basic prevention measures such as mask-wearing and social distancing.”
The Biden administration bought ads promoting the Covid shots through various TV, radio, print, and social media outlets. The campaign was coordinated with the increasing availability of the shots over the course of time.
This messaging effort is clearly focused on convincing the American people that these new inoculations were the best and only way to stay alive and prevent serious illness from the coronavirus.
Your tax dollars also filled the pockets of many YouTubers and Hollywood celebrities like Elton John and Michael Cain. Tapping into their fanbase and using their charm, the HHS was able to influence many people to roll up their sleeve.
In 2021, the Biden White House was quite open about their efforts to enlist an army of social media influencers to promote the Covid jabs. Not everyone knows who Olivia Rodrigo is, but she’s one of the many YouTubers, TikTokers and Twitch streamers recruited by the Biden administration to help sell Big Pharma’s latest product launch. Social Media Influencers have devoted audiences who put a lot of trust in what their heroes have to say.
“For me, getting vaccinated was one of the most gratifying feelings I felt probably in my entire life,” said Social Media Influencer Ellie Zeiler, who was 17 years old last year when she made this statement. “I walk around now and feel like I am guarded and safe by something.”
Zeiler currently has 10.5 million users on TikTok, which makes her more influential than CNN and Fox News combined.
I couldn’t find how much money the Biden administration paid Zeiler or Rodrigo, who were both approached by the White House to promote jabs, according to this Forbes article. Their report does say that some state and local municipalities were/are paying “micro influencers” up to $1,000 per month to push mRNA inoculations.
Someone with an audience of over ten million would likely be offered a LOT more Mula.
How the Propaganda Sausage Gets Made
The sneak peek provided by the FOIA shows how so many Americans were convinced to take the new Covid shots, and why so little editorial content has been provided by news outlets questioning or criticizing this new product. Even FOX News, Newsmax and the Wall Street Journal have been lopsidedly in favor of mRNA inoculations.
Fox News and Newsmax accepted the advertising payments from the U.S. government and never told their viewers what they did.
According to the FOIA request filed by TheBlaze, HHS purchased advertising from…
ABC
CBS
NBC
Fox News
CNN
MSNBC
New York Post
Los Angeles Times
Washington Post
BuzzFeed News
Newsmax
Hundred more local newspapers and TV stations
Social Media Influencers
Logically, a media company doesn’t create content that’s critical of their biggest advertisers.
There have been a few outliers on FOX News, like Laura Ingraham, who have questioned the efficacy of the jabs. But the mainstream media is overwhelmingly pro mRNA shots without any in-depth investigations or independent analysis.
They simply parrot the CDC or NIH talking points.
We now have a clearer understanding why this has been going on for over a year.
Interesting that Fox would request information that implicates themselves as co-conspirators in the "propaganda sausage" and influence peddling of big Pharma and big government.
Apparently, you don't "buck" the system when big "bucks" are involved.
It's really sad & disgusting to see what these people, the main stream media, influencers, celebrities & politicians will do to fatten their wallets. They have no regard for their fellow man. But Kudos to The Blaze for doing some real journalism.