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The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast

168. Media Mistakes, Slipping Standards, and the 60 Minutes Problem (From Archives)

The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast

Sharyl Attkisson

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4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This podcast was first published in April 2021 but disappeared some months later. It is now revived, by popular demand! 

A hard look at slipping journalism standards, the 60 Minutes DeSantis story, and the devastating fallout when it comes to fairness and accuracy.

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0:00.0

Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here.

0:10.8

Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison Podcast on JustTheNews.com.

0:16.3

I hope you'll check out all of the Just The News podcasts.

0:19.4

You can go to JustTheNews.com and see the list of them on the homepage.

0:23.8

Today, a look at medium mistakes, slipping standards, and the 60 minutes problem.

0:29.5

Probably one of my most popular features of the last couple of years was my ongoing list

0:43.9

of medium mistakes in the Trump era, the definitive list.

0:48.1

And I think I ended up with, gosh, more than 150, of well-documented medium mistakes

0:53.7

in the Trump era.

0:54.7

These are mistakes made about Donald Trump and always against him.

1:00.4

I looked for mistakes that were made that cut in his favor, and I'm not saying there

1:05.6

isn't one out there somewhere, but I never found any.

1:09.2

And I certainly asked people to forward them to me if they found any, nobody ever did.

1:13.8

So it starts to look like a pattern, of course.

1:16.7

And I thought I was kind of done with it, once President Trump left office, but I've

1:22.0

started to see that there's a need for a new list, which is medium mistakes in the Biden

1:28.7

era.

1:29.7

We already have some to add to that that we're going to talk about today.

1:33.5

But I thought that before we do that, we would go over the final few medium mistakes that

1:38.7

I added to the Trump list.

1:41.0

And you can read the whole list if you're interested, two ways.

1:44.2

It's in the appendix of my book, Slanted, how the news media taught us to love censorship

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