Sharyl Attkisson Explains How Traditional Media Abandoned Fact-Based Reporting
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🗓️ 24 November 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The mainstream media has sacrificed fact-based reporting in favor of promoting its own social and political agenda, says Sharyl Attkisson, author of the new book, “SLANTED: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism.”
Attkisson, host of the TV show "Full Measure” and a five-time Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist, joins the podcast to explain how the deterioration of fact-based journalism began. From reporting on Black Lives Matter to the 2020 election, media outlets have become consumed with promoting a specific narrative, even if it means censoring the truth.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Tuesday, November 24th. I'm Rachel Del Judas. |
| 0:09.7 | And I'm Virginia Allen. It's no secret that much of the mainstream media has abandoned |
| 0:16.2 | fact-based journalism and reporting in order to promote their own social and political agenda. But how did this deterioration of the news media happen? |
| 0:25.8 | Cheryl Atkinson, a five-time Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist and the host of the show Full Measure joins us to answer that very question and discuss her new book |
| 0:38.0 | slanted how the news media taught us to love censorship and hate journalism. |
| 0:43.2 | And don't forget if you're enjoying this podcast please do be sure to leave a review |
| 0:48.2 | or a five-star rating on Apple Podcast and encourage others to subscribe. |
| 0:51.9 | Now on to our top news. |
| 0:54.0 | Representative Mike Kelly, Republican of Pennsylvania, and other GOP members have filed a lawsuit to try to block the certification of the presidential election results in Pennsylvania. |
| 1:12.0 | On Saturday night, U.S. District Judge Matthew Braun dismissed a lawsuit filed by Republicans, which argued that Pennsylvania's election was unfair and that some counties corrected errors on mail and |
| 1:25.1 | ballots while others did not resulting in some mail and ballots being thrown out |
| 1:30.0 | and others counted. Braun tossed the case out saying it was strained legal arguments |
| 1:35.2 | without merit and speculative accusations. In response, the Republicans |
| 1:40.0 | filed a new lawsuit to once again keep Pennsylvania from certifying its election results. |
| 1:45.4 | The suit attempts to overturn Pennsylvania's Act 77 which was instituted last year and has implemented no excuse mail-on voting and allows state |
| 1:56.4 | residents a 50-day period to request and submit their ballots. |
| 2:01.3 | The plaintiffs argue that the Act is unconstitutional and thus prohibits the certification of the November 3rd election. |
| 2:08.7 | Former Vice President Joe Biden will be having former Secretary of State John Kerry as his climates are and will also |
| 2:15.1 | be having him sit on the National Security Council. |
| 2:18.3 | In a statement, Biden said, per the New York Times, that we have no time to lose when it comes to our national security and |
| 2:24.1 | foreign policy. I need a team ready on day one to help me reclaim America's seat at the |
| 2:29.1 | head of the table where I have the world to meet the biggest challenges we face and advance our security, |
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