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THREAD: Following today’s bombshell @washingtonpost story, I am calling on the @P4AHCF to come clean about any other opeds secretly authored by the health insurance industry to discredit #MedicareForAll.
This move by the industry is built on a decades old corporate playbook used previously by Big Tobacco and the NRA. Placing industry crafted talking points under the byline of trusted local leaders is a tried and true way to manipulate the public.
The team at Medicare for All NOW! uncovered examples of this in Montana and Ohio. @JStein_WaPo dug further to demonstrate the health insurance industry is spreading misleading talking points under the names of local politicians in local papers across the country.
This should surprise no one. But it’s still wrong. And it is scary. It’s also unethical. Public relations professionals are not supposed to misrepresent messages or their messengers to the public.
I’m calling on @P4AHCF to stop its disinformation campaign in local newspapers, driven by lobbyists from Washington, and to identify any other opeds it has placed under false pretenses nationwide.
Anything less would be dishonest, unethical and against everything real PR professionals stand for.
I also caution all local newspapers to look twice at opeds they receive trashing #MedicareForAll. The last thing hardworking local reporters want to feel is that they are being used.
And the industry will lie to use you.
I guess a few of the Dem candidates got this message along with a fat donor check.
Attention, @springfieldNL/@opinionNL: please read this thread, and the linked WaPo article. Thanks.
#M4A #MedicareForAll
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