RFK To Eliminate ALL PHARMA Ads On TV! (Jimmy Dore)

RFK Jr., now serving as HHS Secretary, announced that President Trump signed an executive order requiring pharmaceutical companies to list all side effects in their television ads, effectively restoring pre-1997 advertising rules. The policy change could make ads prohibitively long, potentially discouraging Big Pharma from buying so much television airtime.

Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss whether this move will weaken Big Pharma’s influence over corporate media, which relies heavily on pharmaceutical ad revenue. While RFK aims to eventually ban direct-to-consumer drug advertising altogether, that would likely require a Supreme Court ruling due to prior legal protections of such ads as commercial free speech.



[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, October 1, 2025.]