EP 021 | Media Mistakes and What They Say About the Media Agenda
The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast
Sharyl Attkisson
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
It's all the more important that we, as journalists, maintain strict ethical standards when we *don't* like or agree with the person we are covering. If we let down our guard and don't follow proper conduct, the results can be disastrous for our reputation and the truth.
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| 0:37.2 | Hi everybody Cheryl Ackison here. |
| 0:40.4 | Welcome to another podcast. |
| 0:42.4 | There have been so many. Welcome to another podcast. |
| 0:50.0 | There have been so many media mistakes and reversals and about faces when it comes to headlines and facts that were wrong and video that was wrong. I've tracked a lot of it on my |
| 0:54.9 | website Cheryl Ackison.com. If you go on there and search for media mistakes, you'll |
| 1:01.2 | find my list. I'm nearing a hundred of them now and these are |
| 1:05.2 | major mistakes generally made by major media outlets and analysts including some of |
| 1:12.1 | the most formerly well-respected national news organizations, |
| 1:16.0 | like the New York Times, the Washington Post, NBC, and so on. |
| 1:20.0 | But I wanted to really look at one case in point in particular as part of this |
| 1:25.4 | podcast because I think it's indicative of the problems that we're seeing across |
| 1:28.7 | the board and it has to do with the reporting on President Trump pulling US troops out of Syria. |
| 1:36.4 | Widely reported, using similar words as the abandonment of the Kurds, the betrayal of the Kurds. |
| 1:44.0 | Well, I feel pretty sure that most Americans can't tell you off the top of their head |
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