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The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast

EP 025 | What the Latest Media Mistakes Tell Us About the State of the Media

The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast

Sharyl Attkisson

News

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

What do the latest media mistakes tell us about the state of the media? Something that's not very good. 

Visit SharylAttkisson.com for the entire list of Media Mistakes in the Era of Trump.

Subscribe to my two podcasts: "Full Measure After Hours" and "The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast"

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0:00.0

Hi everybody welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison Podcast. Today we're going to to look at some I think pretty important anti-Trump media

0:16.8

misreporting.

0:18.0

The point isn't to pick on anybody in particular.

0:21.0

It's to learn what the latest media mistakes in the era of Trump tell us

0:25.5

about some badly broken journalism. I'll bet you have something to say. Did you know you don't have to have any fancy

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Spotify.com slash podcasters to get started. The misreporting occurred on

1:12.3

Thanksgiving Day and it made number 100 on my list of

1:16.8

major media mistakes in the era of Trump.

1:20.1

You can go to my website Cheryl Ackison. And search for media mistakes and you'll see the whole list.

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Number 100 was committed by a political writer at Newsweek.

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The writer, by the way, called it an honest mistake, but I suggest it's something far more serious from a journalistic standpoint, and I'm going to explain why.

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First, we'll review the errors. Newsweek Jessica Kwong wrote on Thanksgiving, this is a

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tweet, how is Trump spending Thanksgiving, tweeting, golfing, and more.

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And it linked to her article.

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She also wrote,

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