{"id":1297280,"date":"2023-10-27T15:28:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T15:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fair.org\/?p=9035942"},"modified":"2023-10-27T15:28:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T15:28:32","slug":"peter-maybarduk-on-paxlovid-maya-schenwar-on-grassroots-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/10\/27\/peter-maybarduk-on-paxlovid-maya-schenwar-on-grassroots-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Maybarduk on Paxlovid, Maya Schenwar on Grassroots Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div id=\"mp3jWrap_0\" class=\"mjp-s-wrapper s-graphic unsel-mjp  verdana-mjp\" style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span id=\"playpause_wrap_mp3j_0\" class=\"wrap_inline_mp3j\" style=\"font-weight:700;\"><span class=\"gfxbutton_mp3j play-mjp\" id=\"playpause_mp3j_0\" style=\"font-size:14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"group_wrap\"><span class=\"bars_mp3j\"><span class=\"loadB_mp3j\" id=\"load_mp3j_0\"><\/span><span class=\"posbarB_mp3j\" id=\"posbar_mp3j_0\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"T_mp3j\" id=\"T_mp3j_0\" style=\"font-size:14px;\">CounterSpin231027.mp3<\/span><span class=\"indi_mp3j\" style=\"font-size:9.8px;\" id=\"statusMI_0\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div><span class=\"s-nosolution\" id=\"mp3j_nosolution_0\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><script>\nMP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_0 = [\n\t{ name: \"CounterSpin231027.mp3\", formats: [\"mp3\"], mp3: \"aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRpYS5ibHVicnJ5LmNvbS9jb3VudGVyc3Bpbi9jb250ZW50LmJsdWJycnkuY29tL2NvdW50ZXJzcGluL0NvdW50ZXJTcGluMjMxMDI3Lm1wMw==\", counterpart:\"\", artist: \"\", image: \"\", imgurl: \"\" }\n];\n<\/script>\n\n<script>MP3jPLAYERS[0] = { list: MP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_0, tr:0, type:'single', lstate:'', loop:false, play_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pause_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pp_title:'', autoplay:false, download:false, vol:80, height:'' };<\/script>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9035946\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9035946\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9035946\" src=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Paxlovid-350x146.jpg\" alt=\"Paxlovid tablets\" width=\"350\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Paxlovid-350x146.jpg 350w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Paxlovid-600x250.jpg 600w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Paxlovid-768x320.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Paxlovid-640x267.jpg 640w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Paxlovid.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9035946\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Paxlovid tablets<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>This week on <strong>CounterSpin<\/strong>: Advertising critics have long noted that a company\u2019s PR tells you, inadvertently but reliably, exactly what their problems are. The ad features salmon splashing in crystalline waters? That company is for sure a massive polluter.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the lump of salt with which to take the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/about\/news\/2023\/10\/13\/hhs-and-pfizer-reach-agreement-to-increase-patient-access-to-paxlovid.html\">announcement<\/a> from the US Department of Health and Human Services that their new deal with Pfizer \u201cextends patient access\u201d to Covid treatment drug Paxlovid and \u201cmaximizes taxpayer investment\u201d\u2014as the HHS works with the drug company to \u201ctransition\u201d Paxlovid \u201cto the commercial market.\u201d The announcement doesn\u2019t note that this \u201ctransition\u201d entails hiking the cost of the treatment to more than $1,300 for a five-day course, or <i>100 times the cost of production<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>We discuss this outrage, and what allows it, with Peter Maybarduk, director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.org\/article\/access-to-medicine-learn-more\/\">Access to Medicines<\/a> group at Public Citizen.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mp3jWrap_1\" class=\"mjp-s-wrapper s-graphic unsel-mjp  verdana-mjp\" style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span id=\"playpause_wrap_mp3j_1\" class=\"wrap_inline_mp3j\" style=\"font-weight:700;\"><span class=\"gfxbutton_mp3j play-mjp\" id=\"playpause_mp3j_1\" style=\"font-size:14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"group_wrap\"><span class=\"bars_mp3j\"><span class=\"loadB_mp3j\" id=\"load_mp3j_1\"><\/span><span class=\"posbarB_mp3j\" id=\"posbar_mp3j_1\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"T_mp3j\" id=\"T_mp3j_1\" style=\"font-size:14px;\">CounterSpin231027Maybarduk.mp3<\/span><span class=\"indi_mp3j\" style=\"font-size:9.8px;\" id=\"statusMI_1\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div><span class=\"s-nosolution\" id=\"mp3j_nosolution_1\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><script>\nMP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_1 = [\n\t{ name: \"CounterSpin231027Maybarduk.mp3\", formats: [\"mp3\"], mp3: \"aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRpYS5ibHVicnJ5LmNvbS9jb3VudGVyc3Bpbi9jb250ZW50LmJsdWJycnkuY29tL2NvdW50ZXJzcGluL0NvdW50ZXJTcGluMjMxMDI3TWF5YmFyZHVrLm1wMw==\", counterpart:\"\", artist: \"\", image: \"\", imgurl: \"\" }\n];\n<\/script>\n\n<script>MP3jPLAYERS[1] = { list: MP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_1, tr:0, type:'single', lstate:'', loop:false, play_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pause_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pp_title:'', autoplay:false, download:false, vol:80, height:'' };<\/script>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9035948\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9035948\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9035948\" src=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Truthout-350x453.jpg\" alt=\"Circles symbolizing journalism and activism\" width=\"150\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Truthout-350x453.jpg 350w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Truthout.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9035948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>(image: <strong>Truthout<\/strong>)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Also on the show: <strong>CounterSpin<\/strong> listeners, more than many, recognize news media as a keystone issue\u2014important not simply in their own right but to all of the other issues we care about. The media lens\u2014the points of view that they show us day after day, those they obscure or ridicule\u2014affects the way we understand the world, our neighbors and what\u2019s politically possible. That\u2019s why we see the fight for a thriving media ecosystem as bound up completely with the fights for social, racial, economic and environmental justice. We talked about that nexus with Maya Schenwar, author and editor at large of <strong>Truthout<\/strong>, and director of a new project, the <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/truthout-center-for-grassroots-journalism\/\">Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mp3jWrap_2\" class=\"mjp-s-wrapper s-graphic unsel-mjp  verdana-mjp\" style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span id=\"playpause_wrap_mp3j_2\" class=\"wrap_inline_mp3j\" style=\"font-weight:700;\"><span class=\"gfxbutton_mp3j play-mjp\" id=\"playpause_mp3j_2\" style=\"font-size:14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"group_wrap\"><span class=\"bars_mp3j\"><span class=\"loadB_mp3j\" id=\"load_mp3j_2\"><\/span><span class=\"posbarB_mp3j\" id=\"posbar_mp3j_2\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"T_mp3j\" id=\"T_mp3j_2\" style=\"font-size:14px;\">CounterSpin231027Schenwar.mp3<\/span><span class=\"indi_mp3j\" style=\"font-size:9.8px;\" id=\"statusMI_2\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div><span class=\"s-nosolution\" id=\"mp3j_nosolution_2\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><script>\nMP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_2 = [\n\t{ name: \"CounterSpin231027Schenwar.mp3\", formats: [\"mp3\"], mp3: \"aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRpYS5ibHVicnJ5LmNvbS9jb3VudGVyc3Bpbi9jb250ZW50LmJsdWJycnkuY29tL2NvdW50ZXJzcGluL0NvdW50ZXJTcGluMjMxMDI3U2NoZW53YXIubXAz\", counterpart:\"\", artist: \"\", image: \"\", imgurl: \"\" }\n];\n<\/script>\n\n<script>MP3jPLAYERS[2] = { list: MP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_2, tr:0, type:'single', lstate:'', loop:false, play_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pause_txt:'&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;', pp_title:'', autoplay:false, download:false, vol:80, height:'' };<\/script>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/peter-maybarduk-on-paxlovid-maya-schenwar-on-grassroots-journalism\/\">Peter Maybarduk on Paxlovid, Maya Schenwar on Grassroots Journalism<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/\">FAIR<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/peter-maybarduk-on-paxlovid-maya-schenwar-on-grassroots-journalism\/\">CounterSpin<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paxlovid&#8217;s &#8220;transition&#8221; to the commercial market entails hiking the cost of the treatment to  100 times the cost of production.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/peter-maybarduk-on-paxlovid-maya-schenwar-on-grassroots-journalism\/\">Peter Maybarduk on Paxlovid, Maya Schenwar on Grassroots Journalism<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/\">FAIR<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338,422,259,339,13619,40645,20395,262,263],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297280"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1673087,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297280\/revisions\/1673087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}