60. Media Missteps and Absence of Good Journalism
The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast
Sharyl Attkisson
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Media missteps and absence of good journalism
(first published 1/1/21) Why responsible journalism, something the public wants most, is so hard to find in the chaotic campaign news environment. Also, Glenn Greenwald’s take on bad journalism. And, an eye-opening look at what was in the news exactly 4 years ago this week during campaign 2016.
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| 0:46.9 | Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison podcast |
| 0:52.7 | on JustTheNews.com. A reminder to pre-order my new book, Slanted, |
| 0:58.8 | how the news media taught us to love censorship and hate journalism. |
| 1:02.9 | Boy, every day that book grows more relevant, digging into the death of the news as we knew it |
| 1:08.6 | and who and what are behind today's disturbing trends that's slanted. |
| 1:13.6 | Today we're discussing a recent instance of Media Mile practice with a story about |
| 1:18.4 | President Trump supposedly disparaging fallen US troops that turned out to be |
| 1:23.3 | something quite entirely different. |
| 1:34.8 | You seem to appreciate the deep dive analyses that I give into journalism techniques and |
| 1:41.2 | missteps. It's so important for information consumers to understand what's going on today. |
| 1:47.1 | And a big controversy in recent days has been a story by the left wing, The Atlantic, |
| 1:52.7 | which made a series of claims against President Trump that the rest of the press then |
| 1:56.5 | springboarded into headline news for days and days upon end. Even though I have to say really |
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