Re: Matt Lauer takes Ambien

[Guest guest]

> Gotta run Al and Matt are talking about wrestling nude like

> traditional Greco-Roman wrestlers....

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Ewww.

Now I'll have nightmares when I take my cheap, prescription-free, non

addiciting melatonin.

-christine

[Guest guest]

FYI

This is called product placement advertising. NBC's Seinfeld, for example, made Snapple a household name by having the stars drink a few sips. We all remember what the same NBC show did for Junior Mints. You may also recall Oprah actually didn't spend a dime of her own money to give away those Lincoln Mercurys on her show.

If anybody would like to learn a lot more about how companies are employed to make changes to our thinking and our way of life they might want to check out this link:

http://www.bcg.com/ - It's a link to a company called Boston Consulting Group. You might find it interesting that this particular company contracts with many pharmaceutical firms, the World Health Organization and Bill Gates and others Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization to formulate strategy for advancing and protecting their products, including, but not limited to vaccines.

Drug companies are a major financial resource for NBC and the other networks. What you may not know is GE, which owns NBC Universal, actually is involved in 90% of the world's vaccine manufacturing, and you may recall the thimerosal MSDS with the GE logo on it indicates they also use/sell thimerosal.

I can't re-find the link here during lunch break, but Senator Frist threatened to ban drug advertising for at least two years around the time of the last AMA convention.

Matt Lauer takes Ambien

Since Imus has been off I've been watching the Today show. An exercise in reaffirming why I never watch this crap.Matt Lauer is interviewing a sleep doctor about sleep medications.They ran a story first with snippets of these commericals. First stating if you have watched tv for thirty minutes recently then you have seen a commerical for sleep meds! Butterflies flying in the air and puppies sleeping in baskets...so peaceful....Matt says 42 million prescriptions were written last year for these drugs. Asks if either it's overprescribed or we have a lot of sleep deprived people? Doctor responds "both".Matt proudly fessed up to using Ambien himself. Love that adult style peer pressure angle. Look people I use it and I'm Matt Lauer try it, you'll like it....Anyways it was about a 5 minute commerical, umm I mean interview about sleep meds.Wonder how many more prescriptions will be written based on that interview?Stories like that blur the line between the commericals and the "news". But then we know the "news" really is bought and paid for by their advertisers, so in reality there is no difference.Gotta run Al and Matt are talking about wrestling nude like traditional Greco-Roman wrestlers....

[Guest guest]

Hi Robby,

You make valid points re: product placement advertising.

However, taking a thinly veiled shot at Mark Blaxill (BCG), implying he is part

of the

problem rather than part of the solution, is just factually wrong.

I would support Mark as a candidate for one of the community positions on IACC.

IMO, it would be hard to find someone more dedicated to discovering the cause of

ASD

than Mark. Mark spends his free time on advocacy orgs (safeminds), publishing

research,

presenting at conferences, and testifying to legislatures.

Please reread the research Mark has published over the past few years. If you

want to

continue this Robby, let's please do so privately.

>

> FYI

>

> This is called product placement advertising. NBC's Seinfeld, for example,

made Snapple

a household name by having the stars drink a few sips. We all remember what the

same

NBC show did for Junior Mints. You may also recall Oprah actually didn't spend a

dime of

her own money to give away those Lincoln Mercurys on her show.

>

> If anybody would like to learn a lot more about how companies are employed to

make

changes to our thinking and our way of life they might want to check out this

link:

>

> http://www.bcg.com/ - It's a link to a company called Boston Consulting Group.

You

might find it interesting that this particular company contracts with many

pharmaceutical

firms, the World Health Organization and Bill Gates and others Global Alliance

for Vaccines

and Immunization to formulate strategy for advancing and protecting their

products,

including, but not limited to vaccines.

>

> Drug companies are a major financial resource for NBC and the other networks.

What

you may not know is GE, which owns NBC Universal, actually is involved in 90% of

the

world's vaccine manufacturing, and you may recall the thimerosal MSDS with the

GE logo

on it indicates they also use/sell thimerosal.

>

> I can't re-find the link here during lunch break, but Senator Frist threatened

to ban drug

advertising for at least two years around the time of the last AMA convention.

>

>

>

> Matt Lauer takes Ambien

>

>

> Since Imus has been off I've been watching the Today show. An

> exercise in reaffirming why I never watch this crap.

>

> Matt Lauer is interviewing a sleep doctor about sleep medications.

>

> They ran a story first with snippets of these commericals. First

> stating if you have watched tv for thirty minutes recently then you

> have seen a commerical for sleep meds! Butterflies flying in the air

> and puppies sleeping in baskets...so peaceful....

>

> Matt says 42 million prescriptions were written last year for these

> drugs. Asks if either it's overprescribed or we have a lot of sleep

> deprived people? Doctor responds " both " .

>

> Matt proudly fessed up to using Ambien himself. Love that adult

> style peer pressure angle. Look people I use it and I'm Matt Lauer

> try it, you'll like it....

>

> Anyways it was about a 5 minute commerical, umm I mean interview

> about sleep meds.

>

> Wonder how many more prescriptions will be written based on that

> interview?

>

> Stories like that blur the line between the commericals and

> the " news " . But then we know the " news " really is bought and paid

> for by their advertisers, so in reality there is no difference.

>

> Gotta run Al and Matt are talking about wrestling nude like

> traditional Greco-Roman wrestlers....

>

>

>