Journalist Says Mainstream Media Has Abandoned Fact-Based Reporting

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."

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.

My reporting was well received and recognized with multiple national Emmy Awards and the Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting.

Allen: We're talking with five-time Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson about her new book "Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism."

So how or what do you think is responsible for actually changing the media's focus from fact reporting to agenda-based reporting?

They were able to successfully stop reporting and pull strings in a way I had never seen before, and controversially those who were off the narrative or reporting the truth on certain things.

You start to understand that there's a pattern, and there's a willfulness, and there's an agenda at stake here on the part of we're talking The New York Times, Washington Post, some of the most formerly well-respected news organizations on the planet making the kind of mistakes that, again, journalism students know not to make, reporting in ways that are so sloppy and irresponsible.

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