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"The fact that the results of this trial have been reported in respected journals like The Lancet and the Journal of the American Medical Association has helped him win the ear of medical professionals, media outlets and even a sizable segment of the general population. If the members of these groups scrutinized Ornish's published papers a little more closely, they would quickly realize Ornish's research fails to support most of his very public claims." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.) "However, mainstream media outlets were quick to report on a study appearing in the September 2004 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology which, at first glance, suggested that low cholesterol levels increased longevity(36). Researchers in this study had measured the blood cholesterol of over 3,000 healthy Finnish men aged 30-45 during the sixties, then recorded their mortality during an average follow-up period of thirty-five years." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

"With each experiment yielding a different result, and plenty of media outlets for sharing experiences, the wealth of resources has become a self-sustaining treasure chest growing at an exponential rate. sr DIY Culture Do-it-yourselfers do not see limits, they see sprawling potential, order drawn from chaos, hope. Outside of mainstream culture, many think this way out of necessity. They live in conditions that force them to invent solutions to everyday problems: the Delta dweller who builds a raft out of plastic water jugs, the desert trekker who sews a sun shade out of scraps." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"One of the important roles of advocacy groups is to serve up patients to media outlets giving them a steady stream of real people, to help reporters craft stories that will impact emotionally on their readers. CHADD explicitly sees part of its role as providing "physician experts and families dealing with AD/HD for news and feature articles, television segments, or radio interviews." A quick check with the organization's media liaison staff revealed CHADD had in fact supplied at least one of the adult patients reported on in the U.S. News & World Report story." - Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels, Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients (Get the book.)

"People tend to believe without question what they hear and read, not realizing that it is the food industry's savvy marketing teams, not true science that is feeding this information to the media outlets. For those of you who would like to tap into some big guns for debating this issue in an informed manner, Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition is a fabulous resource written by Marion Nestle." - Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.)

"These media outlets are simply an extension of the sponsors. Remember, the sponsors always control the content and the information that you are being exposed to. Remember, it's always all about the money. Can you see why I'm mad as hell, and not going to take it anymore! Debunking Natural Remedies. In an actual government memorandum, the U.S. federal government states that one of the most effective tools to get people to believe the government's opinion is to put together a well orchestrated debunking campaign." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.) "There are secret meetings with the sponsors who dictate the content of all programming and topics covered or not covered in the media outlets. Because of the cross-ownership of corporations, and the massive amount of stock owned by the executives of corporations, and how many members of the boards of companies are also members of the boards of other companies, there is very little if any objective journalism and unbiased media reporting. A good example is AOL heavily promotes reality television shows on NBC." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.) "The majority of money received by these media outlets is from the pharmaceutical industry and the food industry. Folks, you are being brainwashed; you are being lied to; you are being deceived. A good example of this is I had an ABC news crew come to my house at 7:00 a.m., unannounced. They banged on my door, and they made it appear that I was unwilling to answer the door and answer their questions or give them an interview. This was categorically untrue and false. ABC News specifically tried to mislead the public into believing that I would not answer the door and give them an interview." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.) "The sponsors of these media outlets control the message that you hear on television and radio, and read in newspapers and magazines. That is the fact. No one can deny it. Therefore, since the majority of advertisers are pharmaceutical companies and the major food companies, you will never hear the truth that the food industry is giving you disease and the pharmaceutical drugs are giving you disease. Question: Is there a difference between fitness and health? Answer: Yes. A person can be very fit, but very unhealthy." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

"National Depression Awareness Day began in 1991 and has grown into a huge media event. media outlets receive glossy press kits well in advance of the day, generating countless newspaper and magazine articles, radio announcements, and television coverage. The media outlets provide the coverage as a free public service. On the day, in early October, thousands of sites in hospitals, corporations, and universities around the country provide free depression screening to anyone interested." - Joseph Glenmullen, M.D., Prozac Backlash: Overcoming the Dangers of Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, and Other Antidepressants with Safe, Effective Alternatives (Get the book.)

"Similarly, there are no legal requirements for them, or for the media outlets in which they appear, to disclose the link with the drug manufacturer, even though the public may sometimes be misled into thinking the star is independent.51 Until the health regulators awake from their dreamy slumbers, these star-studded marketing campaigns will continue to dazzle consumers around the world, and the complexity of the science will continue to get lost under the bright lights." - Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels, Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients (Get the book.) "The journal, and other media outlets, published damning internal FDA emails revealing details of some of those communications. In one email about the forthcoming advisory committee meeting Janet Woodcock explained to a colleague that the company was having some "reservations" about the planned meeting because "the advisors may disagree with what we have negotiated and put us back at square one." She went on to add that she agreed with the company executive that this was a "real liability." - Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels, Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients (Get the book.)

"Of course, when there's money to be made, you're unlikely to hear the truth from anyone standing in line to receive some of that money - and that certainly includes the majority of magazine publishers, newspaper publishers, cable companies and media outlets. They all benefit from milk advertising ("milk money"). Hence, they are unlikely to make public information that would earn the wrath of the dairy industry. \ When it comes to hormones, however, there is one thing you can do to protect yourself: buy organic milk made without the use of hormones." - Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.)

"Professional time might be available as pro bono work from advertising and public relations firms. media outlets might also agree to use public service space for nutrition and activity programming. This may help, but would only be a start. Generating funds to promote nutrition might be done in several ways. In Chapter 6 we recognize that schools may lose money if they cease the sales of snack foods and soft drinks. A way to replace this funding would be to enact a small state or national tax on soft drinks, snack foods, and fast foods, earmarking the money for schools." - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.)

"The magazines that Hearst controls include the major popular magazines read by women in Britain and North America:12 Cosmopolitan, Country Living, Good Housekeeping, Harper's, House Beautiful, Marie Claire, Seventeen, and Town and Country. Under Bennack's leadership, the Hearst Corporation acquired ten of its 12 newspapers, including two of North America's biggest - the Houston Chronicle and the San Francisco Chronicle, two major consumer magazines and multiple television stations." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.)

"Source: Newspaper Association of America Consolidation may have been good for the owners of the media outlets, but not necessarily for the readers. This limitation of viewpoints prompted New Yorker columnist A.J. Liebling to famously quip, in 1961, "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." In the second half of the 20th century, newspapers's adversarial role with the government became more controversial. The New York Times won a Supreme Court battle to publish the Pentagon Papers, top secret government documents, in 1971." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"Media outlets receive glossy press kits well in advance of the day, generating countless newspaper and magazine articles, radio announcements, and television coverage. The media outlets provide the coverage as a free public service. On the day, in early October, thousands of sites in hospitals, corporations, and universities around the country provide free depression screening to anyone interested. The screening, which takes less than 5 minutes, consists of a modified version of the Zung self-rating scale for depression." - Joseph Glenmullen, M.D., Prozac Backlash: Overcoming the Dangers of Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, and Other Antidepressants with Safe, Effective Alternatives (Get the book.)

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