Has anyone noticed that about 80% of commercials on CNN are about a drug or disease, often followed by a list of serious side effects or even death. Enough to consider turning the channel during the breaks. The quantity is a bit too much?
Has anyone noticed that about 80% of commercials on CNN are about a drug or disease, often followed by a list of serious side effects or even death. Enough to consider turning the channel during the breaks. The quantity is a bit too much?
The advertisements shown on a channel relate to the demographic that watches the channel during the time period when the commercial airs. All of the warnings are due to legal concerns on the part of the manufacturer's of the drugs. Our legal system has made them a business requirement. No doubt some of the commercials that aren't for drugs are for law firms that are offering to sue the drug firms.
Right. I think the flood is to reach an older demographic during the day. It would be interesting to compare the number of ads of this source in the daytime contrasted with the evening.
Has anyone noticed that about 80% of commercials on CNN are about a drug or disease, often followed by a list of serious side effects or even death. Enough to consider turning the channel during the breaks. The quantity is a bit too much?
Has anyone noticed that about 80% of commercials on CNN are about a drug or disease, often followed by a list of serious side effects or even death. Enough to consider turning the channel during the breaks. The quantity is a bit too much?
If you think thats bad you should watch the evening national news(5:30pm CT) I bet 90% of the commercials that air during that time are for drugs and as you said they spend 20 seconds telling you how great the drug is, followed by 40 seconds of it's awful side effects If CNNs commercials are a high concentration of pharmaceuticals then I'd guess(and would have thought that also) that a high concentration of their audience is older(50+) people, which I reside
In comparison watch something like a football game or something on the CW, you'll see totally different commercials and rightfully so, they are aiming at a much younger audience, beer and such for football and makeup and such for the teen audience on the CW.
I think we are fortunate to live in a country that permits me to advise my Doctor as to my treatment and a Legal system to sue when he listens to my demands.
Has anyone noticed that about 80% of commercials on CNN are about a drug or disease, often followed by a list of serious side effects or even death. Enough to consider turning the channel during the breaks. The quantity is a bit too much?
Has anyone noticed that about 80% of commercials on CNN are about a drug or disease, often followed by a list of serious side effects or even death. Enough to consider turning the channel during the breaks. The quantity is a bit too much?
That is no different than the evening news. Well over 75% of the commercials on all three networks are from drug companies that seem to invent new diseases.
I think that the FDA now requires that a drug must be used to treat a specific disease. Once the drug is passed for use with that disease then it can be prescribed for anything.
So now (probably last 10 years or so ?) you get all these "new" diseases.
If things keep going the way their going it won'y be long when we see ads for marijuana.
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