296. How Biased Language in News Reporting Serves Propagandists
The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast
Sharyl Attkisson
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🗓️ 22 June 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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From "migrant" to "gender-affirming care," Sharyl explores how biased language in news reporting serves propagandists.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. |
| 0:08.8 | Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison podcast. |
| 0:13.4 | Today, how biased language and news reporting serves propagandists. |
| 0:19.6 | Welcome to the year 2000. |
| 0:22.4 | Everyone, everywhere is having fun, except me. |
| 0:26.1 | On BBC IPlayer. |
| 0:27.5 | I worry you're growing up too fast. |
| 0:30.1 | Yeah, we can't be your little ducky forever, can I? |
| 0:32.6 | Inspired by a true story. |
| 0:34.3 | Walk out of this house a boy, one day you'll come back. |
| 0:37.3 | When you do, you will be a man. |
| 0:39.7 | Oh, and hold your breath. |
| 0:41.0 | What it feels like for a girl. |
| 0:42.7 | I wish I could look like you. |
| 0:44.2 | Baby, you can. |
| 0:45.8 | Well, don't you? |
| 0:46.5 | Watch on BBC Eye Player. |
| 0:51.1 | More than a decade ago, I began sounding the alarm in my writings and when I would do interviews. |
| 0:58.0 | I said that we in national news, same probably applies to local news as well, |
| 1:03.8 | but we in national news were at severe risk of becoming nothing more than tools of propagandists |
| 1:09.6 | if we didn't recognize what was going on |
| 1:13.0 | in this widely managed information landscape and make sure that we resisted efforts to kind |
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