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Podcast: Walter Jacobson's Perspective
Episode: Walter Jacobson’s Perspective 8-8-24: I said to myself, ‘What?’
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Thanks, but no thanks, to Donald Trump and Kamala Harris and to the Olympic athletes in Paris who are causing me to watch a lot of television that is clarifying for me a trick of the television trade to make money. More and more money. We’re all watching that trick. You know, those never-ending television commercials pitching medicines. The makers of the medicines are paying huge amounts of money to network and cable television companies for just 15 or 30 seconds of air time to tell us over and over again about the wonders of the medicines now available at wh...