📽 /🎵 TV, with a little 🌐 politics in the mix. I have no problems with Pharma ads on TV getting an "overhaul," so to speak.

[TerryP]

I almost made this comment on this last Saturday while watching football.

On a commercial break I saw an ad for a snack food, followed by a beer commercial (Bud,) then a Taco Bell commercial. The two minute break ended with a Pharma ad where the quickly cited side effects included "anal leakage."

My observation? "Welp, that all fits especially the leakage ending."

But.

Personally, I don't want to hear "when you take this your ass might leak, you might have a fatal reaction, you might start seeing things and think about killing yourself, or a quick blurb about people having had a stroke..." when I'm watching TV. For one, I can't just walk into CVS and buy that drug. Gotta see the doc, right? So why the hell do I have to see the commercials?

Get this. Last year beer ads accounted for less than two percent of the ads on TV. Pharma ads? 10+ percent.

There are bigger problems that TV ads. I have no qualms with this being part of the administration's agenda. None.

(Now I'm wondering about the percentage of Pharma ads on news broadcasts. I remember reading something this summer that suggested it was about a quarter of their ad space/time. 10 billion, I think.)

If you missed it, it's part of the news cycle this week with articles focused on Trump and RJK Jr. and the ad campaigns.

 

[Krimson]

I almost made this comment on this last Saturday while watching football.

On a commercial break I saw an ad for a snack food, followed by a beer commercial (Bud,) then a Taco Bell commercial. The two minute break ended with a Pharma ad where the quickly cited side effects included "anal leakage."

My observation? "Welp, that all fits especially the leakage ending."

But.

Personally, I don't want to hear "when you take this your ass might leak, you might have a fatal reaction, you might start seeing things and think about killing yourself, or a quick blurb about people having had a stroke..." when I'm watching TV. For one, I can't just walk into CVS and buy that drug. Gotta see the doc, right? So why the hell do I have to see the commercials?

Get this. Last year beer ads accounted for less than two percent of the ads on TV. Pharma ads? 10+ percent.

There are bigger problems that TV ads. I have no qualms with this being part of the administration's agenda. None.

(Now I'm wondering about the percentage of Pharma ads on news broadcasts. I remember reading something this summer that suggested it was about a quarter of their ad space/time. 10 billion, I think.)

If you missed it, it's part of the news cycle this week with articles focused on Trump and RJK Jr. and the ad campaigns.

Gotta convince people they have the newest issue/ condition/ disease and they should see their Dr so they can get on the new meds to correct it. That has to irritate an honest dr, assuming there is one.

 

[TerryP]

Gotta convince people they have the newest issue/ condition/ disease and they should see their Dr

I thought that was the role of Facebook.

 

[Krimson]

I thought that was the role of Facebook.

Their job is be a platform for people to complain about random crap that big pharma can label and create new commercials for.