Reporters Hooking on TheStreet

Well that didn’t take long.

Writing for TheStreet today, beat cop Terry Michael loaded his paddy wagon with global warming shills, PharmaSluts and the Nobel prize winners only to learn that his fellow flatfoots and captains may be owned by some very big corporations. Michaels wrote:

More bad news may be on its way for the Nobel -- an inconvenient truth that could damage some big brands of Big Pharma, not just a couple of American politicians. I speak of last year's Nobel in medicine, given to France's Dr. Luc Montagnier.

Montagnier got his gold for discovering "HIV" -- the increasingly mysterious retrovirus announced by the U.S. government 25 years ago this past April as "the probable cause of AIDS," a finding that spawned a multi-billion dollar, anti-retroviral profit center in the pharmaceutical industry.

Problem is, Montagnier is now saying in a new documentary film: "We can be exposed to HIV many times without being chronically infected. Our immune system will get rid of the virus within a few weeks, if you have a good immune system."

That's a direct quote from an interview with Montagnier in House of Numbers, an award-winning full-length production by director Brent Leung that has been playing the film festival circuit around the world for the past eight months. The film is about to hit theaters and cable early in 2010.

Two hours later, Gilead Sciences apparently pressured The Street co-founder Jim "Mad Money" Cramer and Adam Feuerstein to react like the wanton pseudo-journalists they are only months after Jon Stewart exposed Cramer for the corporate shill he is:

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After reading Michaels’ opinion piece, Cramer went into damage control:

"This article makes it sound like (Gilead) is a fraud. That's ridiculous. The franchise is important and helpful. I dont think there is support for this position.. None"

Cramer flunky Adam Feuerstein added:

• Terry – your “opinion” column was removed because if consists of HIV denialist nonsense…”
  
  
• Terry -- you sound and write like someone who lives on the street.
  
  
• I think all those who deny the existence of the HIV should volunteer to be injected with the virus to determine whether vitamins and a strong immune system are enough to prevent infection and/or AIDS. Good Luck.

Shortly thereafter, TheStreet spiked the heavily-edited article and all 16 of the mostly pharmaceutically-driven attacks, leaving their readers to wonder what it is about HIV-discoverer Luc Montagnier’s admission that terrifies drug companies and journalists alike.

With such obvious corruption, how ANYONE would rely on TheStreet for accurate reporting is beyond me. One would think that journalists and pharmaceutical companies would be overjoyed by news that HIV can be cured with food and clean water.