Comments on: FDA’s silly edicts prove that DTC advertising was a bad idea all along /edsblog/fdas-silly-edicts-prove-that-dtc-advertising-was-a-bad-idea-all-along/ Helping Americans get safe access to affordable medications since 2006. Sun, 01 Jun 2014 17:10:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.1 By: Peter /edsblog/fdas-silly-edicts-prove-that-dtc-advertising-was-a-bad-idea-all-along/#comment-205735 Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:06:47 +0000 /edsblog/?p=1637#comment-205735 One of the most pernicious effects of direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising is that it has bought the pharmaceutical industry (and, indirectly, their fellow “Big Health” partners) a tame ally in the commercial media. Looking for objective information on health care reform? You won’t find it in the commercial media. They aren’t going to bite the hand that feeds — $1.4 billion to ABC, CBS, and NBC alone in 2005* — and the hand that feeds doesn’t want reform. Accordingly, the coverage we see in the mainstream media is heavily slanted in favor of the current health care system’s big players.

* Source: Alexander Cockburn, CounterPunch, 6-8 March 2009, “How The TV Networks Became Drug Peddlers”

]]> By: Health News: 3 Sources for Unbiased Prescription Drug Information | The eDrugSearch Blog /edsblog/fdas-silly-edicts-prove-that-dtc-advertising-was-a-bad-idea-all-along/#comment-205689 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:05:12 +0000 /edsblog/?p=1637#comment-205689 [...] about the potential side effects and drug interactions associated with their medications. But the FDA recently warned drugmakers that they are not emphasizing these enough in their [...]

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