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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Bingo
She’s one of the few worthy of the term journalist working. It is a sad commentary on the state of our press.
Here is a large part of the problem in the last 20 years - Chinese influence:
Curious Why US News Networks Are Supportive of Chinese Government? Just Look at the Corporate Ownership
https://townhall.com/columnists/bradslager/2020/04/24/curious-why-us-news-networks-are-supportive-of-chinese-government-just-look-at-the-corporate-ownership-n2567504
Money , power and ideology
Thanks! Will review.
They were always leftists, but at least they used to pretend. Since Trump election 2016, they gave up on pretending.
Newscasters and on the scene tv news reporters have had their moments to inject their philosophies, their disdain of others, and their desire for whirled peaz, since the days when Peter Jennings and Tom Brokaw aired their masked hatred of the Vietnam War into everybody’s living room.
Not a whole lot to explain.....propagandizing for the Derps at the NYT or Washington Compost. Is simply better pay and less work. Journalism means going out and doing real work to find nuggets of truth and lies.
Reading or word processing a prepared fax from C_A every day is piece of cake...and the guaranteed annual 6 figures for playing the blind deaf and dumb monkey game is nothing to sneeze at.
I remember Bernard Goldberg’s book BIAS, which came out in 2001, and pointed out how the “homeless crisis” was all over the news whenever a Republican was president, but disappeared as soon as Clinton was elected.
“I think it started with “advocacy journalism.””
Rush Limbaugh did a piece in the 90’s about a journalism convention and polling of the attendees.
IIRC, over 90% said they were Democrat and a similar percentage said they got into journalism to be social advocates. To “change the world”.
To change America, actually, to socialism. Their pubic school teachers and college prof’s had indoctrinated them well. They indoctrinate even better nowadays, a well tuned propaganda machine.
Walter Cronkite conned The Greatest Generation (my Mom and Dad) and their children and their parents.
Top TV newsman at CBS , believed by patriot Americans, lauded as “The most trusted man in America.”
In reality, a hard leftist mole, pro-communist, who singlehandedly prolonged the Viet Nam war by lying about the Tet offensive. The blood of many thousands of young American men is on his hands.
Cronkite comes clean at the 7 minute mark in this video: https://youtu.be/9oFS-KT377M
This is a deep rooted tradition of the left. The enlightened intellectuals take the lead, and wake up the masses. Media is the best way to wake up the ignorant masses. Many so-called journalists convince themselves that they are on a noble mission to enlighten people and defeat evil conservatives.
But, in reality, they are no more than pampered spoiled brats aping the socialist revolutionaries of the past.
btt
Excellent reporting, thank you!
Love Sharyl. Tells it like it is, not how she wants it to be.
A ew weeks ago I was at a Trump protest. It was the same time Biden was declared by the media to have won.
I was interviewed by several media outlets. It was like someone sent them the list of questions. Each one was the same.
Last week, I googled my name and found that I was quoted by multiple outlets. Each one had the exact same quote.
The steno pool in the media just copied and pasted one quote for their own story.
What an incredibly lazy bunch of people.
“The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money’s sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.” Mark Twain
Great book, when it came out.
It’s one of those that opened my eyes to what the MSM was/is doing.
They live in such a bubble that reporting with their bias has become “we’re morally obligated to filter stories and report things based on our worldview”.
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