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Be polite walk on the right
2023-01-26 12:28:09 AM  
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aremmes
2023-01-26 12:28:20 AM  
I guess they're yearning for the days of Audis accelerating unintentionally.
 
Aussie_As
2023-01-26 12:29:48 AM  
It would presumably be pretty easy for a company which already has sponsorship arrangements with a network to say "we didn't pay that particular program for their friendly coverage of our product" while hiding such payments or other sweetners in the deep detail of their other arrangements.

60 Minutes has clearly just gone down the Dr Oz path, I'm surprised it took this long.
 
misanthropicsob [OhFark]
2023-01-26 12:29:49 AM  
Obvious tag OD'd on Fentanyl?
 
DoctorCal [TotalFark]
2023-01-26 12:31:42 AM  
Novo Nordisk did not provide any payment or sponsorship to CBS 60 Minutes for their reporting on obesity as part of a news segment that aired on January 1, 2023, and we did not control any of the content or have any role in identifying or selecting the doctors and patients featured in the news segment.

Very specific denial.
 
misanthropicsob [OhFark]
2023-01-26 12:36:23 AM  

DoctorCal: Novo Nordisk did not provide any payment or sponsorship to CBS 60 Minutes for their reporting on obesity as part of a news segment that aired on January 1, 2023, and we did not control any of the content or have any role in identifying or selecting the doctors and patients featured in the news segment.

Very specific denial.


Makes you wonder who got paid what. Like, were there trips to Epstein Island for producers' husbands where the massagers came with names of doctors pinned on their dresses?
 
Mr.Insightful
2023-01-26 12:40:12 AM  

DoctorCal: Novo Nordisk did not provide any payment or sponsorship to CBS 60 Minutes for their reporting on obesity as part of a news segment that aired on January 1, 2023, and we did not control any of the content or have any role in identifying or selecting the doctors and patients featured in the news segment.

Very specific denial.


More like "complete", "detailed", "deliberately written so as to be difficult to mischaracterize", and also to set up a legal basis for a future libel or slander lawsuit if anyone continues to asserts that they did.
 
MaliFinn
2023-01-26 12:42:30 AM  
lmao at anyone who thinks that PR expense to create journalism is a new or unique thing
 
spiralscratch
2023-01-26 12:45:44 AM  
Was it a Leslie Stahl piece? Aside from pop culture fluff pieces, hers are always the worst.

/is responsible for canceling that show you really liked
 
KodosZardoz
2023-01-26 12:59:19 AM  
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Unscratchable_Itch
2023-01-26 1:01:34 AM  
Oh, heavens. I just went to clutch my pearls, lost my balance and fell off my fainting couch, and spilled my popcorn.

Really? This is a scandal compared to all of the other immense farkery going on right now? Like every fifteen minutes or so?

Fark-o-nauts are always up on current events - you don't need a list.
 
Chagrin
2023-01-26 1:50:22 AM  

Aussie_As: It would presumably be pretty easy for a company which already has sponsorship arrangements with a network to say "we didn't pay that particular program for their friendly coverage of our product" while hiding such payments or other sweetners in the deep detail of their other arrangements.


My employer was forced by Dell to switch to their computers (server and desktop) or lose all of their advertising in an associated media division. It's just how things work.
 
rosebud_the_sled
2023-01-26 1:54:46 AM  
There was a day when I looked to 60-minutes for real investigative journalism. That was a time that can be measured in decades. These days, the only truly investigative journalism is done by John Oliver on a comdey show.

I'm sure that some of you will respond by writing that finding new interpretations of the Bible, supporting Russia and finding out what the Kardshians think is news.

It is always amusing to find out that many people are delusional; however, at some point, being reminded of it is tiresome.

60-Minutes was pointless a long time ago. Thinking that they will change back is foolish. Once you've lost your credibility, it take decades to get it back and decades are far beyond the typical media attention span.
 
Mikey1969 [OhFark]
2023-01-26 2:12:07 AM  

rosebud_the_sled: There was a day when I looked to 60-minutes for real investigative journalism. That was a time that can be measured in decades. These days, the only truly investigative journalism is done by John Oliver on a comdey show.

I'm sure that some of you will respond by writing that finding new interpretations of the Bible, supporting Russia and finding out what the Kardshians think is news.

It is always amusing to find out that many people are delusional; however, at some point, being reminded of it is tiresome.

60-Minutes was pointless a long time ago. Thinking that they will change back is foolish. Once you've lost your credibility, it take decades to get it back and decades are far beyond the typical media attention span.


Yeah, they all lost credibility. Look at NBC with the gas tank explosions thing.

/received a Guinness towel even though I didn't order one
 
hammettman
2023-01-26 2:29:26 AM  
Mike Wallace must be decaying in his grave.
 
mistahtom
2023-01-26 2:35:39 AM  

rosebud_the_sled: There was a day when I looked to 60-minutes for real investigative journalism. That was a time that can be measured in decades. These days, the only truly investigative journalism is done by John Oliver on a comdey show.

I'm sure that some of you will respond by writing that finding new interpretations of the Bible, supporting Russia and finding out what the Kardshians think is news.

It is always amusing to find out that many people are delusional; however, at some point, being reminded of it is tiresome.

60-Minutes was pointless a long time ago. Thinking that they will change back is foolish. Once you've lost your credibility, it take decades to get it back and decades are far beyond the typical media attention span.


Welcome to Fark.

/oh bosh!
 
Bennie Crabtree
2023-01-26 2:42:15 AM  
Barbara Walters is hardly even dead yet and already they've lost their shiat. At least let the worms get all the way up to her ovaries before screwing her legacy!
 
Bennie Crabtree
2023-01-26 2:45:52 AM  

rosebud_the_sled: There was a day when I looked to 60-minutes for real investigative journalism. That was a time that can be measured in decades. These days, the only truly investigative journalism is done by John Oliver on a comdey show.

I'm sure that some of you will respond by writing that finding new interpretations of the Bible, supporting Russia and finding out what the Kardshians think is news.

It is always amusing to find out that many people are delusional; however, at some point, being reminded of it is tiresome.

60-Minutes was pointless a long time ago. Thinking that they will change back is foolish. Once you've lost your credibility, it take decades to get it back and decades are far beyond the typical media attention span.


In December, 2021, they did an amazing show about how, in 2022, the Colorado River was going to dry up; that it would cause incredibly high inflation; 33% of the produce in the USA would simply not grow and it would compound the disaster that are Ukraine's famines. I guess nobody watched it, because the Americans acted like farking shiatforbrains like it was unexpected and not one American news outlet has reported on the famine effects in the countries the USA has food trade treaties with. 60 Minutes did though, ahead of time. Where the fark were you?
 
Tanqueray [TotalFark]
2023-01-26 3:14:32 AM  

hammettman: Mike Wallace must be decaying in his grave.


60 Minutes Mike Wallace Exposes the 1976 Swine Flu Pandemic Vaccine Injuries
Youtube g5jx243DHyg

/runs
 
Sexy Jesus
2023-01-26 5:39:24 AM  
WTF do they think the C in CBS stands for? And this is not peculiar to TV networks.  I used to work for a company that made fishing tackle.  Want your tackle mentioned in their pieces? Then buy a big-assed ad? Want the cover? Well, the editor likes money and his people like expensive dinners.  Looking at you, ESPN/Bassmaster.  For enough money, the pros will even swap out whatever rig they just caught with for one featuring your product(s) during the televised tournament before the camera boat gets there, and the camera boat will be sure to mosey over all nice and slow.
 
djloid2010
2023-01-26 7:17:18 AM  
Remember when 60 Minutes was one of the most trusted shows that grandma loved, when Morley was on and they did actual investigations, and Andy Rooney, too?
 
Not again 5
2023-01-26 8:20:43 AM  

Aussie_As: It would presumably be pretty easy for a company which already has sponsorship arrangements with a network to say "we didn't pay that particular program for their friendly coverage of our product" while hiding such payments or other sweetners in the deep detail of their other arrangements.

60 Minutes has clearly just gone down the Dr Oz path, I'm surprised it took this long.


60 Minutes has been guilty of puff pieces for decades.  I don't even watch it anymore.
 
Unright
2023-01-26 8:22:10 AM  

MaliFinn: lmao at anyone who thinks that PR expense to create journalism is a new or unique thing


I don't think anyone is claiming that this is a new or unique thing. It's a thing that's known to be possible and a group that specifically looks for it thinks it found an example and is reporting it to the authorities which regulate this specific known thing.
 
flamark [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-26 9:14:05 AM  
I saw this air a couple of weeks ago and right out of the gate, Leslie stated, "50 years ago, obesity was not such a problem. Less than 10% of people were obese but today, it's over 50%". (quoting from memory, the numbers might be off). Then, less that 5 minutes later, she was interviewing someone with the premise that obesity is a genetic illness and not the fault of the obese person and that all you needed to do was to take this marvelous new drug that would fix the genetic signals." (something to that effect). So, in the last 50 years we've developed a genetic illness instead of pointing out the obvious that people are consuming more calories and that the food industry in America pumps up the sugar content on everything. So this magical drug works only when you are taking it. Because it is basically an appetite depressant. The bottom line message was, don't worry about dieting, it's not your fault you're obese. Just buy this drug.

Shameful!
 
GrizzlyPouch
2023-01-26 10:04:50 AM  
I like the part at the end where Novo Nordisk says "we didn't tell them what to say"

Yeah.  You just handed them a fat stack of money and winked.

But it was a totally innocent wink.
 
GrizzlyPouch
2023-01-26 10:10:30 AM  

Chagrin: Aussie_As: It would presumably be pretty easy for a company which already has sponsorship arrangements with a network to say "we didn't pay that particular program for their friendly coverage of our product" while hiding such payments or other sweetners in the deep detail of their other arrangements.

My employer was forced by Dell to switch to their computers (server and desktop) or lose all of their advertising in an associated media division. It's just how things work.


But the advertisements aren't disguised as "news" so they aren't misleading.
 
Dinjiin [BareFark]
2023-01-26 10:37:30 AM  

flamark: I saw this air a couple of weeks ago and right out of the gate, Leslie stated, "50 years ago, obesity was not such a problem. Less than 10% of people were obese but today, it's over 50%". (quoting from memory, the numbers might be off). Then, less that 5 minutes later, she was interviewing someone with the premise that obesity is a genetic illness and not the fault of the obese person and that all you needed to do was to take this marvelous new drug that would fix the genetic signals." (something to that effect). So, in the last 50 years we've developed a genetic illness instead of pointing out the obvious that people are consuming more calories and that the food industry in America pumps up the sugar content on everything. So this magical drug works only when you are taking it. Because it is basically an appetite depressant. The bottom line message was, don't worry about dieting, it's not your fault you're obese. Just buy this drug.

Shameful!


Had they said, "a significant percentage of the population have genes that promote obesity, but your grandparents and great-grandparents were thin because they smoked two packs a day", chances are we'd be here for different reasons.
 
flamark [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-26 10:48:11 AM  

Dinjiin: flamark: I saw this air a couple of weeks ago and right out of the gate, Leslie stated, "50 years ago, obesity was not such a problem. Less than 10% of people were obese but today, it's over 50%". (quoting from memory, the numbers might be off). Then, less that 5 minutes later, she was interviewing someone with the premise that obesity is a genetic illness and not the fault of the obese person and that all you needed to do was to take this marvelous new drug that would fix the genetic signals." (something to that effect). So, in the last 50 years we've developed a genetic illness instead of pointing out the obvious that people are consuming more calories and that the food industry in America pumps up the sugar content on everything. So this magical drug works only when you are taking it. Because it is basically an appetite depressant. The bottom line message was, don't worry about dieting, it's not your fault you're obese. Just buy this drug.

Shameful!

Had they said, "a significant percentage of the population have genes that promote obesity, but your grandparents and great-grandparents were thin because they smoked two packs a day", chances are we'd be here for different reasons.


Cigarettes being an appetite suppressant, sure. But how much do genetics really account for obesity at this point especially when the food industry has made processed food more caloric? It seems to me that the increase in obesity would be more directly related to foods than genetics. Maybe I'm wrong but don't dare blame the sugar industry.
 
GrizzlyPouch
2023-01-26 2:44:36 PM  

flamark: Dinjiin: flamark: I saw this air a couple of weeks ago and right out of the gate, Leslie stated, "50 years ago, obesity was not such a problem. Less than 10% of people were obese but today, it's over 50%". (quoting from memory, the numbers might be off). Then, less that 5 minutes later, she was interviewing someone with the premise that obesity is a genetic illness and not the fault of the obese person and that all you needed to do was to take this marvelous new drug that would fix the genetic signals." (something to that effect). So, in the last 50 years we've developed a genetic illness instead of pointing out the obvious that people are consuming more calories and that the food industry in America pumps up the sugar content on everything. So this magical drug works only when you are taking it. Because it is basically an appetite depressant. The bottom line message was, don't worry about dieting, it's not your fault you're obese. Just buy this drug.

Shameful!

Had they said, "a significant percentage of the population have genes that promote obesity, but your grandparents and great-grandparents were thin because they smoked two packs a day", chances are we'd be here for different reasons.

Cigarettes being an appetite suppressant, sure. But how much do genetics really account for obesity at this point especially when the food industry has made processed food more caloric? It seems to me that the increase in obesity would be more directly related to foods than genetics. Maybe I'm wrong but don't dare blame the sugar industry.


Exactly.  Genetics can't break the laws of physics.

Consume more calories than you burn? Your body will store fat.

Burn more calories than you consume? Your body will use its fat as an energy source.

It's that simple.
 
Be polite walk on the right
2023-01-27 1:16:50 AM  

Sexy Jesus: WTF do they think the C in CBS stands for?


Cock?
 
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