"Virtually every piece of information that can be co-opted has been, whether it's Wikipedia online, fact-checkers, the news," says five-time Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson.
"This is all part of a very well-funded, well-organized landscape that dictates and slants the information they want us to have."
Attkisson is the host of Full Measure and author of "Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism."
Now here we are just a couple of years later, after a major campaign to control the information on the news and online, where many people embrace the notion that some know-nothing third party whose strings are being pulled by some corporate or political interest are inserting themselves and telling us what we can and can't see and read, and what we should believe.
So virtually every piece of information that can be co-opted has been, whether it's Wikipedia online, fact-checkers, the news, or Snopes.
The push-me, pull-you in the media today hopefully has been news reporters trying to push back against organized efforts to make sure some information doesn't get out.
He said something like somebody needs to step in and curate information in this wild, wild West media landscape.
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.
Monday, January 24, 2022
Sharyl Attkisson: How Propagandists Co-Opted 'Fact-Checkers' And The Press To Control The Information Landscape
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