Posted on 11/28/2020 10:28:48 PM PST by MAGA2017
The traditional media has sacrificed fact-based reporting in favor of promoting its own social and political agenda, says Sharyl Attkisson, author of the new book “Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism.”
Attkisson, host of the TV show “Full Measure” and a five-time Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist, joins the podcast to explain how the deterioration of fact-based journalism began. From reporting on Black Lives Matter to the 2020 election, media outlets have become consumed with promoting a specific narrative, even if it means censoring the truth.
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From reporting on The Vietnam War to the 2020 election, media outlets have become consumed with promoting a specific narrative, even if it means censoring the truth.
There. Fixed it.
I love Sharyl but without reading her explanation, I’ll save us all time with a concise explanation:
> “How Traditional Media Abandoned Fact-Based Reporting”
How they did is also why they did it. How they did it was to take easy money from interested parties with an agenda than actually hit the pavement and do work finding stories and facts.
Nice find
I think it started with “advocacy journalism.”
The Treason Media is entirely about promoting The One Narrative Approved By Leftists.
Be a shame if’n they wuz all clubbed like baby Harp seals...
FTA: "So how or what do you think is responsible for actually changing the media’s focus from fact reporting to agenda-based reporting?
Attkisson: Well, there are some, and in fact an increasing number of people at news organizations who may not say to themselves, “I want to pedal a lie,” but they are not journalists in the sense that we have had come to recognize journalists.
They are simply propagandists who want to put forth a certain view. And if that requires a half-truth or a lie, they’re perfectly happy to do that if it accomplishes mission.
So I think people need to understand that a lot of people they see in a lot of outlets and quasi news outlets doing what they call reporting are really no more than political operatives or corporate interests disguised as reporters who have no intention of providing accurate information.
Quite the contrary, they want to keep you from getting certain accurate information, view points, scientific studies that could lead you to draw what they see as a harmful conclusion to their interest.
You may be right that people go into journalism, hopefully, thinking that they can report facts and truth, but that’s not how everybody gets into the business. And increasingly, people working at news organizations are not those kinds of people.
But secondly, and I write about this in “Slanted,” even journalism groups, news organizations, and journalism professors, one whom I quoted in the book, have changed, again, what we thought of as the news. They are proud to say that they have disregarded objectivity and neutrality, which they say was overrated. I liken that to a doctor telling you that good diet and exercise are overrated.
These neutrality and objectivity used to be considered important tenants of straight news reporting, and now journalism professors are teaching some of their kids, and The New York Times is going along with it, that objectivity, neutrality, and lack of bias are actually antiquated, old-fashioned notions that have no place in journalism today.
So even those getting into journalism for, I guess, what you would have thought were the right reasons are being taught to push narratives and try to convince people to think a certain way and put their opinions in their reporting rather than just reflect the truth of what’s happening.
How,
Because there is a Beast rising up right in front of us all and they are given over to it,
“Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.” Daniel 12:10
Jesus is on the earth right now.
Another annoying thing about journalists these days is that they are so infantile.
It’s not about the failure of journalism. It’s about a handful of major corporations dictating the message. Yes, it’s that simple.
Every media minion is replaceable — they’re not special. And we’re seeing the likes of Sharyl, Solomon, Ngo, Carter clearly demonstrating journalism. The craft isn’t dead — it’s overshadowed.
It’s not a cultural matter — the offending media punks are paid well to spew their hatred.
Disney, ATT, and Comcast have been the primary antagonists because they no longer benefit from the “traditional” economic models. Without expansion, they collapse. That’s the reality of the news media today — the “needs” of these malicious corporations.
Why all of a sudden we are supposed to honor journalists and even claim that theirs' is a "profession" or "calling" is beyond me.
“Jesus is on the earth right now.”
I don’t know about that. But Satan sure is.
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In the 1980s, the average American got their news from CBS, NBC, ABC, AP, Paul Harvey, Time, Newsweek and regional newspapers.
Presently, you can count around sixty outlets that you get your news from. Paul Harvey died, Newsweek/Time are marginally read by 1-percent of the population now, and there might be a million Americans now who get their news from Joe Rogan/Tim Pool (YouTuber moderators).
In simple terms, things have gotten complicated and half the population is now skeptical over just about anything political in nature.
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