Cheryl Acason here. Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison podcast on Just The News.com.

I hope you'll check out all the Just The News podcast. You can go to just the news.com and see the list of them on the home page.

Hey, it's time to pre-order my new book, Slanted, How the News Media taught us to love censorship

and hate journalism. It's out Tuesday, November 24th, and this explains nearly everything about

what's going wrong with the news and the censorship, control,

and manipulation of social media.

Today in this podcast, I'm going to take a fanciful, hypothetical look at how things might be

if an unconflicted news media were covering the 2020 election and the aftermath.

Thank you. covering the 2020 election and the aftermath.

I thought it would be really interesting to take a look at what I think the news coverage would have looked like building up to this election and what's happened since if we had a more

traditional fair, accurate, and neutral press. What do I mean by that? Well, as I've written about

and spoken of extensively, the media is really a shadow of its former self in terms of traditional

journalism. And I wrote about this in

Stonewalled in the smear and in my new book Slanted, which is coming out in a few days.

I talk about how the media allowed itself to be transformed, kind of invited this transformation,

how the news has allowed special interests, corporate and political interests, to influence the way we report things, and never was this more clearly seen than when it came to Donald Trump.

In fact, starting in around 2016, the news, led by the New York Times, admitted, acknowledged, and even cheered on the changes that they made

in their standards and ethics and reporting guidelines so that they could deviate to attack

President Trump, whom they said they viewed as uniquely dangerous to our American democracy.

But I think we know from the evidence that's been

entered over the past four years or so that really what Donald Trump did was threaten the

establishment in both parties, threatened the power structure, the money structure, the way that

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