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The media does not report any more, they lecture.            

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Really great read. . . . . . . . . . . 

 

 

How To Create a Fake News Cycle

By Pierre Kory    July 05, 2023

 

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/07/05/how_to_create_a_fake_news_cycle_149447.html

 

 

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Ivermectin pimp can't give up on Ivermectin.

 

From the cited article: "We may never know how many lives were lost because of the tactics used to suppress ivermectin ..."

 

Actually, we do know: approximately zero.

 

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2801828

 

Cochrane meta-analysis of 11 eligible trials examining the efficacy of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19 published through April 2022 concluded that ivermectin has no beneficial effect for people with COVID-19.1 Since May 2022, an additional 3 large randomized clinical trials including several thousand participants have been published, each reaching a similar conclusion.2-4

Today JAMA publishes a new trial of ivermectin treatment for mild to moderate COVID-19 that addresses the possibility that the existing literature may have missed the efficacy of ivermectin because the previously tested dose (approximately 400 μg/kg daily for 3 days) was insufficient.5 At a higher treatment dose (600 μg/kg daily) and longer treatment duration (6 days), Naggie and colleagues again conclude that ivermectin is not beneficial for the treatment of COVID-19.

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How To Create a Fake News Cycle

By Pierre Kory    July 05, 2023

 

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/07/05/how_to_create_a_fake_news_cycle_149447.html

 

 

 

 

 

The part of the article that was ignored.

 

The whole debacle presents a neat lesson in how to create a fake news cycle. It goes like this.

 

Step one: Identify a public tool, such as poison control centers, that are easy to manipulate. These organizations have a public hotline and email address that anyone can use to report a problem. The reports are logged as “adverse events,” but they are not easily confirmed and typically will be tabulated for public records whether or not they have been verified.

 

Step two: Deploy “independent,” seemingly credible voices to validate and embellish the false claims. Doctors are among the most trusted professionals, but having a medical degree doesn’t make you an honest broker. 

 

Step three: Coordinate with institutional allies to add legitimacy – FDA, American Medical Association, and GAVI (The Vaccine Alliance) – to add credibility and fan the flames with outraged public statements and targeted ad buys. Reporters can pose questions to their representatives at televised briefings, which carried more significance during the pandemic.

 

Finally, step four: Activate the echo chamber in mainstream and social media. Twitter influencers who live and play in the Acela corridor can talk to each other in the green rooms of cable news studios and glitzy Beltway gatherings. They can pat each other on the back for exposing the crazies and conspiracy theorists.

The pharmaceutical company didn’t invent this playbook, Tobacco, energy, chemicals, and other industries have deployed these same tactics to neutralize competition and preserve market control.

 

Big business has been gaming the system for a long time, but the rise of social media has turned once respected media institutions into clickbait machines easily manipulated by industry. With Americans locked in their homes and constantly primed to accuse each other of killing grandma, the pandemic rapidly accelerated this trend and gave pharma – and its media allies – strong motive and ample opportunity. 

 

 

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 NY Times Continues to Report on a Joe Biden Who Doesn’t Exist.

 

 “The alternative reality accounts of who Joe Biden is that I’ve read since 2020 have been like nothing I’ve ever seen, even during the eight years that these people were swooning over His High Holiness, the Lightbringer Barack Obama.”

 

https://pjmedia.com/columns/stephen-kruiser/2023/07/06/ny-times-continues-to-report-on-a-joe-biden-who-doesnt-exist-n1708209

 

 

 

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The part of the article that was ignored.

 

The whole debacle presents a neat lesson in how to create a fake news cycle. It goes like this.

 

Step one: Identify a public tool, such as poison control centers, that are easy to manipulate. These organizations have a public hotline and email address that anyone can use to report a problem. The reports are logged as “adverse events,” but they are not easily confirmed and typically will be tabulated for public records whether or not they have been verified.

 

Step two: Deploy “independent,” seemingly credible voices to validate and embellish the false claims. Doctors are among the most trusted professionals, but having a medical degree doesn’t make you an honest broker. 

 

Step three: Coordinate with institutional allies to add legitimacy – FDA, American Medical Association, and GAVI (The Vaccine Alliance) – to add credibility and fan the flames with outraged public statements and targeted ad buys. Reporters can pose questions to their representatives at televised briefings, which carried more significance during the pandemic.

 

Finally, step four: Activate the echo chamber in mainstream and social media. Twitter influencers who live and play in the Acela corridor can talk to each other in the green rooms of cable news studios and glitzy Beltway gatherings. They can pat each other on the back for exposing the crazies and conspiracy theorists.

The pharmaceutical company didn’t invent this playbook, Tobacco, energy, chemicals, and other industries have deployed these same tactics to neutralize competition and preserve market control.

 

Big business has been gaming the system for a long time, but the rise of social media has turned once respected media institutions into clickbait machines easily manipulated by industry. With Americans locked in their homes and constantly primed to accuse each other of killing grandma, the pandemic rapidly accelerated this trend and gave pharma – and its media allies – strong motive and ample opportunity. 

 

 

And the example is ... the suppression of Ivermectin! A drug that the vast majority of infectious disease specialists thought wouldn't work against COVID, yet a drug that was the subject of multiple COVID studies, all of which showed, conclusively, that it does not work against COVID.

Nothing was "suppressed." It. Didn't. Work.

 

You need to be a more critical reader. Look at the structure of the "argument" here:

1. Some doctors though Ivermectin may be a cheap/readily available/effective COVID therapy.

2. Big pharma would not profit from that. It would profit from having its own newly-developed/patent-protected vaccines and therapeutics adopted as the standard.

3. Other big industries (tobacco, energy, chemicals) have lied about various things over the years.

4. Ergo, Big Pharma suppressed an effective cure in order to foist their ineffective/profitable "solutions" on the public.

 

Think about that logic. What's missing? 

A. Anything suggesting that Ivermectin is actually effective! He saves that for the last sentence, speculating on "how many lives could have been saved" if the Ivermectin cure hadn't been suppressed. Except that it WAS studied, and WAS (unfortunately for all of us) found to be ineffective.

 

Also missing: any indication that there was any conspiracy to suppress evidence that Ivermectin is an effective COVID therapeutic. What happened is that the vast majority of experts said, "there's no evidence that this Ivermectin thing works." And that was true then. And now? There is strong evidence that it doesn't work.

 

Only someone predisposed to find a conspiracy would find anything persuasive about this profoundly stupid article.

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1 minute ago, SoCal Deek said:

The modern Democratic Party is completely off the rails. Who’d of ever thought they’d reject a Kennedy? Simply amazing. 

Oh, come one. This is not your father's Kennedy.

Read the NYT article. It's short. And honestly, the five things they point to are pretty unhinged. And they kind of underplay the level of crazy when it comes to the assassination of his father, stating that RFK Jr. has suggested there was a CIA conspiracy to kill him. In reality, RFK Jr. has expressed doubts that Sirhan Sirhan was actually the assassin, or the sole assassin. Everyone saw it on TV, but he tells us not to believe our lyin' eyes.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/robert-f-kennedy-jr-says-hes-not-convinced-sirhan-sirhan-killed-his-dad

 

This guy is a nutcase. 

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