61. What the News Media Should Have Done After its 2016 Mistakes…but Didn’t
The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast
Sharyl Attkisson
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
What the news media should have done after its 2016 mistakes…but didn’t
A short list of the reforms our industry should have made to gain back public confidence moving into the 2020 elections.
Subscribe to my two podcasts: “The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast” and “Full Measure After Hours.” Leave a review, subscribe and share with your friends!
Order “Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism” by Sharyl Attkisson at Harper Collins, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books a Million, IndieBound, Bookshop!
Visit JustTheNews.com, SharylAttkisson.com and www.FullMeasure.news for original reporting.
Do your own research. Make up your own mind. Think for yourself.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | I'll bet you have something to say. Did you know you don't have to have any fancy equipment to start your own podcast? |
| 0:06.5 | Spotify for podcasters lets you record and edit podcast right from your own phone or computer you can start creating today. |
| 0:14.0 | Then you can distribute your podcast everywhere through Spotify, |
| 0:18.0 | video podcast too. |
| 0:19.0 | And you can earn money with ads or subscriptions all totally free to you no catch I've encouraged |
| 0:25.8 | several people already to try it and they've now got their own podcast going |
| 0:30.0 | download the Spotify for podcasters app or go to Spotify.com slash podcasters to get started. Hi everybody Cheryl Ackison here. |
| 0:45.0 | Cheryl Ackison here. |
| 0:49.0 | Welcome to another edition of the |
| 0:55.0 | Sharel Achison Podcast on Just the News.com. I hope you'll check out all of the Just the News |
| 0:56.5 | podcast. You can go to just the news.com online and see the list of the |
| 1:01.2 | podcast on the home page. |
| 1:03.0 | A reminder it's time to pre-order my new book, Slanted, |
| 1:06.6 | how the news media taught us to love censorship and hate journalism. |
| 1:10.6 | Order it for yourself or somebody you care about. |
| 1:13.0 | It makes a great holiday gift and will be out in time for the holidays. |
| 1:17.0 | Today I'm going to list some of the specific things the news media should have done after our mistakes of 2016 and 2017 to get back |
| 1:27.1 | some of our credibility things that we should have done but haven't. Maybe you've noticed some of the same things that I have. |
| 1:40.0 | Maybe you've noticed some of the same things that I have here in 2020 some odd weeks before the next election |
| 1:48.1 | when you watch the news or read the news online. It feels a lot like it did in 2016 about this time. |
| 1:56.6 | And that got me thinking about the 2016 mistakes that were made and in 2017 for that matter. And how we in the stakes that |
| 2:05.0 | in 2017 for that matter and how we in the media promised after we got the predictions so wrong and so many people were so surprised |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Sharyl Attkisson, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Sharyl Attkisson and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.