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I agree with Big Julie. Everything has a spin, "journalists" no longer acurately depict both sdes of a story, but find an "angle" they feel will "sell" the story.
So if everything is a spin, and your dumb enough to follow Aaron Brown to the bridge, well if you jump its your fault.
I don't like to see these kinda things. I think lines of credibility and journalistic integrity are crossed, but I'm sure I'm in the minority on this one. If you need to buy some credibility, its just money, and if you wave it they will come.
Course I don't even think drug companies should be allowed to direct market to potential consumers. Doctors are the paid professionals who are best able to assess what remedy is best for whom. Doctors don't need patients coming to them and telling them what medicine they need, doctors need a patient to accurately relay symptoms. And with this direct marketing you often see drug companies stretching the truth - the shouldn't have the opportunity. Aaron Brown knows nothing about a drug. Old ladies souldn't be led to believe that by taking a drug they will be frolicking in the woods with their grandkids, it don't work that way. Finally, if drug companies spent half as much on research for new drugs as they do on print ads and airtime....
If Aaron Brown is comfortable with it, who cares. Fault moves to the drug company and people stupid enough to lend credibility to it cause of Aaron Brown.
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