Five-time Emmy award-winning journalist Sharyl Attkisson said she has seen an increased effort to manipulate the public to appreciate censorship and disapprove of journalism.
"Nearly every mode of information has been co-opted, if it can be co-opted by some group, [and] fact-checkers are no different," Attkisson told EpochTV's "American Thought Leaders."
In 2016 Attkisson heard former President Barack Obama say news needed to be curated, after which mainstream media outlets started to consistently use the term fake news to describe mostly conservative news stories that they deemed untrue.
Attkisson said the fake news phrase was actually started by the left but was effectively turned on its head by former President Donald Trump and now most people think he coined the phrase.
Attkisson criticized large news outlets for being a "Mouthpiece" of the government or other special interest groups instead of challenging them or holding them accountable, particularly as it relates to the pandemic.
Attkisson said the National Institutes of Health used taxpayer money to fund gain of function research in partnership with China but media reports were to the contrary.
Attkisson believes the reason some people can be manipulated into believing the narrative put out by corporate media is that they live in "a box," meaning the Internet is their only source of information.
It's becoming increasingly difficult to discern fact from fiction, and unfortunately the media has a strong bias. They spin stories to make conservatives look bad and will go to great lengths to avoid reporting on the good that comes from conservative policies. There are a few shining lights in the media landscape-brave conservative outlets that report the truth and offer a different perspective. We must support conservative outlets like this one and ensure that our voices are heard.
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Fact-Checkers Are Used to Confuse the Public: Sharyl Attkisson
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