Pfizer Paying Big Money To Control Media Criticism & Teen Girls Commit Murder For Online Fame

Pfizer is spending big money to control online media. And, a group of 8 teenage girls have been arrested for murdering a homeless man in Canada, and authorities think social media may have played a role in the killing. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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Pfizer's spending big money to control online media. Boy, they have succeeded haven't they? Talk about this, would you.

This, this is an amazing story by this group Lever News, Andrew Perez. And, and by the way, Lever News is actually emerging as a very good anti-corporate news source here. But what they've.

Tell, tell the viewers about that so they'll have a source to go.

Yeah. It's, it's, it's levernews.com. Again, huge. David Sirota writes for it, Andrew Perez, a lot of folks, you know, we've talked about over the years. But what they've found here, they've been doing the digging and they've found that Pfizer is out here sponsoring all kinds of different online media outlets. They've got a event coming up this week that they're sponsoring for The Hill. And what they're doing is paying to have their articles in addition to, you know, the big money behind it, go out there to the public saying, oh, look at what a good company Pfizer is. As they're, as they do every January, raising the prices on hundreds of prescription drugs in America, simply because they can. But they've got these articles out here that they paid for saying, we give so much money to charity. We're on the forefront of cutting edge medical technology. It's a sham and they're paying for it.

Let me tell you where it gets really weird. They write the articles.

Yeah.

They do the television production. They give it to MSNBC, they give it to CNN. They give it to the corporate networks and they just run it. Why? Because Pfizer is advertising every, every nine minutes on MSNBC or CNN. So they just take this packaged crap that's produced by Pfizer and it's all, well, we're, we're a wonderful corporation. They don't talk about the hundreds of lawsuits that have been brought against them for fraud, for creating dangerous drugs. They don't talk about any of that. They, they say, okay, if you said it, it must be true. And oh, by the way, could you spend another $10 million with us this year advertising Pfizer?

And, and what we see now, because you know, you're talking a lot about the, the corporate media, which they've been in for years. And now they've realized we've seen the success on the corporate media, on the daytime television especially, it's bad. And now they're moving into those online forums.

Right.

You know, where they couldn't get in front of people's eyeballs the same way they do on TV. So they buy spots and, and oil industry's bad with this too, they buy 'em on The hill, the hill.com. They buy it in Politico. Politico is horrible.

Oh, it.

With the corporate propaganda they push out.

Just give us money. We'll say whatever you wanna say.

And now this new one, Semafor, which I've used them as a source. They've put out some good stuff. And, and exactly. Pfizer understands, uhoh, they're talking about pharmaceutical stuff. We've gotta put a stop to it. We've gotta buy them off.

Yeah. I, I wouldn't use that as a source.

Oh, not anymore.

I literally would not use it as a source.

Absolutely not anymore.

I wonder about any of these other sources that are doing this because they, all they're doing is they're getting a package. Would you do this story? Here's, we filmed it for you. We have the witnesses, we have whatever. Just put it up. Everything's gonna be okay. Now, the problem as you're talking about is it moves into social media. What ends up happening? Those stories are throttled up. Okay. Our story about this will be throttled back. When you're watching this segment don't be surprised if a drug company comes on right before our segment. Every time we do a story about the, NextEra, for example, the, the energy supply company. They're right before we start hammering them. You know, so, I mean, you know, social media in another year, you're not even gonna.