A drug maker infiltrates the news

Kelly Crowe writes about a pharmaceutical company's "stealth marketing campaign" using a comedian to drum up interest in a condition that the company's product treats. She quotes from a press release on the comedian's "mission", and writes: "But nowhere did it say this 'mission' was initiated and sponsored by Novo Nordisk Canada Inc., which makes a vaginal hormone pill. Nor did GCI's release specify that Jones was paid to give media interviews about vaginal atrophy."

October 10, 2016

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