PR agency hired to promote RSV vaccine and pass off its advertisement as 'news'
Is it news? Is it current affairs? No, it's PR.
Have you ever wondered how people end up being the man-or-woman-in-the-street who appears in interviews on TV? Very often, a PR agency recruits these people and stage-manages the entire operation.
I don’t own a TV or read newspapers or magazines, but for my Australian readers who do, I would appreciate it if you could be on the look-out for a media piece featuring a pregnant woman in a discussion about RSV vaccination:
Let me know if you spot the outcome of this nasty propaganda exercise.
And for all my readers, this is yet another warning that much of the media content you consume is packaged up by PR agencies. It’s not news; it’s product placement.
Weber Shandwick does PR for pharmaceutical and vaccine companies, the CDC and the World Health Organization (but I repeat myself).
My cousin was encouraged to get the covid vac when she was pregnant!!!
a couple excellent tips on gaslighting and hidden propaganda are on the tube, by Sharyl Attkisson and Mark Crispin Miller. After that, everyone should be able to recognize the false 'news'. PS we learned in school 50 years ago that pregnant women should not take any drugs or chemicals at all, and I think that is one part of science that still stands. The doc even told young women, that if they wanted to vaxx' against rubella, to do it 3 months before they intended to get pregnant. All docs promoting jabs and meds for pregnant woman - get out of that office! A bigpharma salesman.