If California officials get their way, network television will soon become even more unwatchable than it already is, as prime time becomes one long commercial for ObamaCare.
Officials in California want prime-time TV shows to help promote President Obama’s healthcare law.
Outreach to television producers is part of the marketing plan adopted by California’s insurance exchange — a new marketplace, created by the Affordable Care Act, where individuals and small businesses will be able to buy private insurance.
The exchange’s public-relations plan says “individuals from California’s robust entertainment industry will be approached at the most senior levels” to promote the new marketplace and get people enrolled.
“A number of popular television programs and personalities such as Grey’s Anatomy, Modern Family, the Biggest Loser, Dr. Oz and others will be approached and pitched to incorporate story lines or mentions of health care reform that would reinforce campaign messages,” the marketing plan states.
Dr. Mehmet Oz of “The Dr. Oz Show” is already appearing in ads run by an outside group urging people to “get enrolled,” according to The New York Times, which noted the state’s marketing plans this weekend.
California’s exchange is also considering a reality show to boost enrollment.
Suppose a Republican rammed a sweeping law through Congress against the will of the American people, then tried to hide from its political consequences, and then had state governments use their power to push for prime-time propaganda to make that law more popular.
Yeah, but for your hypothetical scenario to occur, there would have to be a conservative issue where Hollywood was in support universally. Good luck finding that one…
Wouldn’t that be an in-kind campaign finance contribution?
Would that these “honored” promoters get to intimately KNOW the depths of the toxic swill they will be complicit in promoting. Would that their audiences beware the messages of these snake oil salesmen. That which sounds too good to be true is surely too good to be true here. With the IPAB and ACO’s that will end up controlling and/or shorting providers, the foolish enrollees will have health insurance policies that won’t cover needed care and will have no wise providers willing to offer services.
Officials in California want prime-time TV shows to help promote President Obama’s healthcare law.
If health care for Americans is a “right”, shouldn’t having one’s own TV station also be a right? I demand that Uncle Sam provide me with a TV station! After a few months of obligatory 24/7 Baywatch episodes (maybe with a few ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ episodes sprinkled in, you know . . . for their intellectual stimulation), I’ll then produce & air an Obamacare reality show showing the horrors of waiting months on end for routine surgeries, pleading one’s case before a death panel only to be denied, and rampant malpractice due to overworked health care providers. On second thought, that might be too realistic . . . . it’ll be back-to-back “Lizzie Borden”, “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”, “The Amityville Horror”, “Elm Street” and “Scream” instead.
So, the solution to all this Hollywood bias is that there is money to be made in American entertainment, the vast majority of actors/actresses end up not making it, and everyone in the business never is able to do as much as they want, as far as actually getting films made and shows aired. Meaning there is no great unsurmountable barrier to entry to making another “Hollywood” somewhere in the country, and assuring it does not become liberalism’s unthinking mouthpiece. Because we will not lack for talent if we can actually get capital.
Moral of the story–We’ll have to destroy Hollywood to save it.
Same thing with the MSM. Fox News proved there was a market. Same as “Passion of the Chirst” proved there was a market.
The fact of the matter is that reducing the influence of liberal Hollywood and the liberal MSM can be done a lot easier than realized–if we would just get in those businesses and make products people want to pay for.
Free enterprise is the way to take care of Hollywood and the MSM.
https://www.declarationentertainment.com/
It can hardly be surprising. Government agencies that dole out goodies, including the food stamp program and FEMA, spend a huge amount of money to make sure everyone who might possibly be able to belly up to the bar knows how to do it. We are not just creeping toward a dependency state; it is actively being pursued. The real crisis comes when the rest of us wonder how much longer we can stand to be the suckers.
– whornia.
Dr. Mehmet (turk mohammad) Oz
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_Oz#Personal_life
“He grew up in a mixed Muslim environment where his father’s family were conservatives who believed in the integration of Islam and government”
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Dr. Oz is a muslim and thus exempt from the mandate
just thought that should be pointed out