{"id":1944777,"date":"2023-06-05T19:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T23:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-says-fox-news-didnt-run-negative-vaccine-stories-to-keep-big-pharma-advertisers\/"},"modified":"2023-06-05T19:02:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T23:02:38","slug":"rfk-jr-says-fox-news-didnt-run-negative-vaccine-stories-to-keep-big-pharma-advertisers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-says-fox-news-didnt-run-negative-vaccine-stories-to-keep-big-pharma-advertisers\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr. claims Fox News avoided negative vaccine stories to appease Big Pharma advertisers."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frfk-jr-says-fox-news-didnt-run-negative-vaccine-stories-to-keep-big-pharma-advertisers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1944777&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Claims Fox News Censored Negative Vaccine Content to Please Big Pharma Advertisers<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHe said that any of his hosts who allowed me on TV to talk about this, that he would be forced to fire them,\u201d Kennedy recalled. \u201cAnd he said that 75 percent of his advertising revenues for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-scalise-who-is-paying-former-abc-news-chief-to-produce-jan-6-hearings\/\" title=\"Rep. Scalise: Who Is Paying Former ABC News Chief to Produce Jan. 6 Hearings?\">nightly news shows<\/a> were at that point coming from pharma.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently revealed that Fox News refused to air content that portrayed vaccines in a negative light to appease its big-money advertisers in the pharmaceutical industry. During a Twitter Spaces interview with Elon Musk, Kennedy disclosed that he approached former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes in 2016 about doing a story on the mercury content in vaccines but was shut down.<\/p>\n<h3>Banned From Platforms<\/h3>\n<p>As an outspoken critic of COVID-19 vaccines, Kennedy has faced his fair share of being removed from platforms in recent years, with the most recent example being his campaign\u2019s suspension from Instagram. Last week, Kennedy shared the news on Twitter, noting that his personal account was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/robert-f-kennedy-jr-banned-by-major-social-media-site-campaign-pages-blocked\/\" title=\"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. banned from social media, campaign pages blocked.\">banned years ago<\/a> and has not been reinstated despite his political candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo silence a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-ryan-wont-say-whether-he-thinks-illegal-immigrants-should-be-able-to-vote-in-ohio\/\" title=\"Tim Ryan Won\u2019t Say Whether He Thinks Illegal Immigrants Should Be Able To Vote in Ohio\">major political candidate<\/a> is profoundly undemocratic,\u201d he wrote on June 1 in a tweet. \u201cSocial media is the modern equivalent of the town square. How can democracy function if only some candidates have access to it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk, responding to the news, invited Kennedy to join him for a Twitter Spaces discussion. And Instagram\u2019s loss appeared to be Twitter\u2019s gain on June 5, as more than 56,000 people tuned in to the conversation, which featured a wider discussion of how the government and major corporations work to control the speech of Americans.<\/p>\n<h3>Bait and Switch<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cFree speech and the free flow of information is the water, it\u2019s the sunlight, it\u2019s the fertilizer and soil to democracy,\u201d Kennedy said. \u201cWithout it, democracy withers and dies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Noting that those who censor speech are historically viewed as \u201cthe bad guys,\u201d the candidate stressed that he has met many Americans who feel like the democratic aspect of the U.S. government has become nothing more than a front.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo many Americans today feel like the promise of democracy has been a bait and switch, and that we\u2019re no longer living in a democratic system where we are actually the sovereign of our own destinies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Money, drugs, and large corporations, he said, had turned the government into an \u201cinstrument of corporate power\u201d that was being wielded against U.S. citizens. And the media, he contended, has been complicit in that process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe function of media traditionally is supposed to be the guardians of the First Amendment. They\u2019re supposed to speak truth to power, and instead, they become propaganda vessels for the powerful, for you know, the big military-industrial complex or the pharmaceutical companies.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Debate Controversy<\/h3>\n<p>While Kennedy stressed that democracy thrives best in an atmosphere of debate, his political party appears to have chosen a different route, opting&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To silence a major political candidate is profoundly undemocratic<\/li>\n<li>Social media is the modern equivalent of the town square<\/li>\n<li>Money, drugs, and large corporations have turned the government into an \u201cinstrument of corporate power\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are just a few of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-says-fox-news-didnt-run-negative-vaccine-stories-to-keep-big-pharma-advertisers\/\" title=\"RFK Jr. claims Fox News avoided negative vaccine stories to appease Big Pharma advertisers.\">thought-provoking statements made<\/a> by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during his recent interview with Elon Musk. It&#8217;s clear that Kennedy is passionate about the importance of free speech and the free flow of information in a democratic society. And while he may have faced censorship and opposition from some media outlets and platforms, he remains committed to speaking truth to power and fighting for the rights of all Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accused Fox News of censoring vaccine criticism to please pharmaceutical advertisers. In a Twitter Spaces interview with Elon Musk, Kennedy revealed he spoke to former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes in 2016 about a vaccine debate, but it never happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1226,"featured_media":1944778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[11959,10254,24979,21873,4856,7690,9883,6296,4133,23694,5567,3954],"class_list":["post-1944777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-pharma","tag-advertisers","tag-appease","tag-avoided","tag-claims","tag-fox","tag-jr","tag-negative","tag-news","tag-rfk","tag-stories","tag-vaccine"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1944777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1944778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1944777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1944777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1944777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}