39. The NYT Just Corrected its False Article About Me. What the Incident Says About Today's Media Environment
The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast
Sharyl Attkisson
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🗓️ 13 June 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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The NYT just corrected its false article about me. What the incident says about today's media environment.
The NYT just corrected its false article about me. What the incident says about today's media environment. We also discuss the evolving recommendations about coronavirus masks.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody Cheryl Ackison here |
| 0:09.8 | here. Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison Podcast, which is on Just the News. |
| 0:14.9 | com, a fact-based digital news site. |
| 0:18.1 | I hope you'll subscribe to this another Just the News podcast, John Solomon reports, and the Pod's Honest Truth. |
| 0:25.2 | Today we're going to talk about the effort by members of the media, some journalists |
| 0:30.4 | and some ordinary folks who bully and controversialize those who are |
| 0:35.0 | asking rational legitimate questions and who are reporting quite accurately |
| 0:39.6 | on coronavirus. We'll go over the example of the New York Times defamatory article about me and the |
| 0:46.4 | corrections they ended up having to make. I have an exciting announcement exciting for me anyway. You can now pre-order my next book, |
| 1:03.4 | slanted how the news media taught us to love censorship and hate journalism. |
| 1:08.7 | It fits right in with today's topic. |
| 1:11.3 | What is behind this odd movement that seems to say that certain people want all |
| 1:16.4 | journalists on the same page accepting and parroting official information without |
| 1:21.2 | doing our normal jobs of verifying information to the extent possible, |
| 1:25.0 | of trying to get any inconsistencies or unanswered questions answered, |
| 1:29.0 | and putting it all in context. |
| 1:32.0 | Well, perhaps you've noticed when it comes to covering |
| 1:34.6 | coronavirus there has been this weird phenomenon and people being targeted and |
| 1:40.8 | singled out by some in the media, Those of us getting bullied or controversialized, |
| 1:45.6 | at least in my case, aren't reporting anything differently than some of the outlets doing |
| 1:49.8 | the criticism. Why are they coming after certain people and not others, why are they |
| 1:54.8 | coming after them for perfectly accurate reporting? Well let's briefly go |
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