Welcome to the Eric Mettaxas show with your host, Eric Mettaxas.

Folks, welcome to the program.

Today, I believe it's Friday.

You know what that means? Because I certainly don't. But one thing I do know, Cheryl Atkinson is my guest. If you don't know who she is,

it's one of the reasons I do the program is because I'm interested in introducing you to people

whom you should know, although many of you already know, Cheryl Atkinson.

She is a five-time Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter. Remember when we had investigative

reporting in America? Gosh, you've got to be pretty old to remember that. I joke bitterly.

She has a book out called Slanted. It's my joy to have her as my

guest. Cheryl, welcome the program. Thanks for having me. I guess I want people to know your story a little

bit because this has happened over and over. It happened to Laura Logan. It happened to a number of

people that I can think of who

seemed to me to be in mainstream media as journalists. And then something happened. They seemed to

wake up to the level of bias or whatever. Can you tell us your story of how that happened to you?

Because you don't win five Emmy Awards for being a political hack or for just spewing

out what people tell you.

You're an investigative journalist and you were awarded for that from the industry.

So what happened? Well, I think that's awarded for that from the industry. So what happened?

Well, I think that's what put me on the outs. The industry changed, and I didn't change with it. So over the years after working in local news and CNN, back when it was a news organization,

and then more than 20 years at CBS, I saw this transformation whereby special interests

and political interests became very effective at, I would say, taking over a large segment

of media and the news industry to control what we do and don't report.

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