68. The Big Media Miss-- Again
The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast
Sharyl Attkisson
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The big media miss—again
No matter who wins the presidential race, one thing was clear on election night: the media failed to self-reflect and self-correct after its Big Miss from 2016.
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| 0:49.0 | Welcome to another edition of the on the home page, you will find original and interesting off-narrative reflections. |
| 1:06.4 | We're at crunch time folks when it comes to information, manipulation, and control. |
| 1:11.6 | You're seeing more and more of it every day, whether it's on the news or |
| 1:15.2 | social media or elsewhere on the internet, which means it's time to pre-order my new book, |
| 1:20.9 | Slanted, how the news media taught us to love censorship and hate journalism. |
| 1:26.1 | It's on point with everything that you're seeing today. |
| 1:29.6 | Pre-election, post-election, what's happening on social media with the censorship that's become |
| 1:36.3 | so blatant they're not even trying to hide it anymore. |
| 1:39.8 | So I hope you'll consider pre-ordering slanted today. In today's podcast we're going to talk about the |
| 1:46.0 | big miss again and by that I mean how the pundits, polls and analysts got it so wrong for the every presidential election in 2020 was no different. |
| 2:13.0 | Many seem to think that the stakes were even higher than ever before |
| 2:16.8 | in this one election. |
| 2:18.4 | But really a key subplot to all of this is something that is even larger than any one campaign and that is the |
| 2:25.5 | polls and the pundits and the confidence in the system that we've entrusted for some decades now. As you know there was already simmering mistrust of |
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