PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Lucifer on May 09, 2019, 06:06:43 AM
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/what-my-leaving-cbs-news-revealed-about-the-news-industry_2901934.html
The day that I told CBS News I wished to leave my job as investigative correspondent ahead of my contract, I didn’t give a reason. I didn’t see the point because the problem wasn’t fixable.
Nor was it isolated to CBS News.
My own take is that—as our industry has changed in ways that have become undeniable to most—I was a bit of the canary in the coal mine. By that, I mean I believe I was among the first to really pay attention to the increasingly effective operations to shape and censor news—the movements to establish narratives rather than follow facts—and to see the growing influence of smear operations, political interests, and corporate interests on the news.
It’s not that I’m smarter than my peers, and I’m surely far less smart than many, but my particular brand of off-narrative reporting happened to draw the intense attention of the smear operators and propagandists, so I began to study it.
A case in point: the smear that was promulgated when I left CBS. It was often incorrectly reported that I told CBS management I was quitting due to liberal media bias. That false story turned out to be convenient for both political sides, and largely survives today. It simply wasn’t rooted in fact. And I don’t recall reporters even asking me whether it was true. Once a few articles reported that it was, others simply copied the claim and adopted it as if established fact, eventually without attribution. Now there would be no point in trying to clarify it. After all, Wikipedia says it’s true. No going back from that.
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Sharyl Attkisson is a brave person. It is very telling when there are so few willing to take the heat of the Media, and others to tell the truth. She is a breath of fresh air, and pretty darn HOT too!
Today, it is all about advancing the Liberal/Progressive, Democrat agenda, and crafting stories to fit that narrative. As Walter Cronkite revealed many years ago stating it wasn't his job to report the facts, but to mold public opinion. He was a far leftist masquerading as a news person, and got away with fooling the vast majority of the country. Mainstream media did it for years until the advent of conservative talk radio in the late 1980's, and then to a lesser extent Fox News. Prior to Rush Limbaugh's national syndicated radio show which aired in 1988, there was no alternative voice to the Liberal/Progressive mainstream media which grew into what it is in the late 1960's, and 1970's.
Today, we still have a national and worldwide media that is at least 95%+ far left progressive, very dishonest, and solely there to promote their narrative. Look at corporations like Comcast, Disney, Amazon, all of Tech, and other monied interests that own and run these outlets. Their goal is the further consolidation of wealth and power. Trump is a speed bump to them. We need to be the brick wall.
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Sharyl Attkisson is a brave person. It is very telling when there are so few willing to take the heat of the Media, and others to tell the truth. She is a breath of fresh air, and pretty darn HOT too!
Today, it is all about advancing the Liberal/Progressive, Democrat agenda, and crafting stories to fit that narrative. As Walter Cronkite revealed many years ago stating it wasn't his job to report the facts, but to mold public opinion. He was a far leftist masquerading as a news person, and got away with fooling the vast majority of the country. Mainstream media did it for years until the advent of conservative talk radio in the late 1980's, and then to a lesser extent Fox News. Prior to Rush Limbaugh's national syndicated radio show which aired in 1988, there was no alternative voice to the Liberal/Progressive mainstream media which grew into what it is in the late 1960's, and 1970's.
Today, we still have a national and worldwide media that is at least 95%+ far left progressive, very dishonest, and solely there to promote their narrative. Look at corporations like Comcast, Disney, Amazon, all of Tech, and other monied interests that own and run these outlets. Their goal is the further consolidation of wealth and power. Trump is a speed bump to them. We need to be the brick wall.
Bingo. Especially the hot part.
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Not too shabby for pushing 60.