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Originally Posted by stanmrak

Just know that everything you've heard about the H1N1 vaccines in major media outlets is part of a marketing campaign to sell more vaccines — EVERYTHING. That doesn't mean that the info is accurate or not, but it's part a sales job, just like any kind of advertising or public relations.

Yep. and to be sure the sheeple get the message through their thick skulls, the CDC has to hold hands with the mainstream media and spoon-feed it the right information about vaccines and drugs it wants to see on teevee:

CDC Health Marketing | Entertainment Education

The CDC recognizes the power of popular entertainment in shaping the perceptions and practices of its viewers. Television shows, movies, and music not only command the attention of their audiences, but also reinforce existing behavior, demonstrate new behavior, and affect audience emotions. The CDC often partners with Hollywood executives and academic, public health, and advocacy organizations to share information with writers and producers about the nation's pressing health issues.

The CDC Entertainment Education Program works in partnership with Hollywood, Health & Society (HH&S) at the University of Southern California's Norman Lear Center to provide expert consultation, education and resources for writers and producers who develop scripts with health storylines and information.

Popular entertainment provides an ideal outlet for sharing health information and affecting behavior. We are interested in providing information that covers a variety of topics including violence against women, suicide, lead poisoning, hospital infection, bioterrorism, youth health issues, HIV/AIDS and much more. Knowing that 88 percent of people in America learn about health issues from television, we believe that prime time and daytime television programs, movies, talk shows and more, are great outlets for our health messages.

Tip Sheets for TV Writers and Producers

Tip Sheets for TV Writers and Producers contain easy-to-use, credible information on the nation's most pressing health issues and topics of interest to writers. Each tip sheet includes a description of who's at risk, typical symptoms, prevention messages, case examples, and a list of other resources. Over 130 tip sheets are currently in development at Hollywood, Health & Society, with many of these already available online. The broad range of topics includes skin cancer, sudden infant death syndrome, smallpox, and antibiotic resistance.

http://www.cdc.gov/healthmarketing/entertainment_education/tips/immuniz.htm

Resources for TV Writers and Producers

Low Immunization Rates
Tips for Scripts

EDUCATE parents about the importance of immunization and what can happen if children are not vaccinated.

INFORM viewers that vaccine-preventable diseases caused hundreds of thousands of cases of illness and thousands of deaths every year in the United States before the 1920s when vaccines were not available. Cases of measles, diphtheria, and pertussis exceeded half a million per year; deaths from these diseases totaled about 20,000 annually. Hib meningitis used to strike 12,000 children a year, leaving many either dead or with permanent brain damage.

REASSURE viewers that we can now protect children from eleven diseases. Polio has not circulated in the U. S. since 1979, and disease and death from diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, measles, mumps, rubella, and Haemophilus influenzae type b are at or near record lows.

REMIND viewers that children should not have to suffer and possibly die from a vaccine-preventable disease and that their doctor or clinic can advise them on childhood immunization schedules beginning within the first year of life.