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American Thought Leaders

Why Did Activism Take Over Journalism?—Amber Athey Cuts Through the Information War

American Thought Leaders

The Epoch Times

Government, News, Politics

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

“These corporate outlets have really blurred the lines so aggressively that people can’t even tell the difference anymore between who is actually trying to impart truth and who is trying to impart an agenda,” says Amber Athey, The Spectator’s Washington editor and a senior fellow at the Steamboat Institute.


How did activism take over journalism? And what will it take to cut through the information war?


“Their power comes in their stranglehold on information. And if they don’t have that anymore, then they no longer are able to operate with this monopoly that they’ve enjoyed over the past few decades,” Athey says.

Transcript

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0:00.0

on this episode of American Thought Leaders.

0:02.5

We have seen that the millennials who were orchestrating

0:06.9

woke mobs in college have now graduated,

0:10.0

and instead of as many on the right suspected,

0:12.3

being slapped in the face with reality

0:14.5

and being told that there were no safe spaces

0:16.5

in the real world, actually used the same tactics

0:18.9

that they used on campus to infiltrate institutions

0:21.9

and bend them to their will.

0:23.6

At the National Conservatism Conference in Miami, Florida,

0:27.2

I sat down with Amber AP, the spectator's Washington Editor,

0:30.8

and a senior fellow at the Steamboat Institute.

0:33.3

How did activism take over journalism

0:35.8

and what will it take to cut through the fog

0:38.1

of the information war?

0:39.5

Their power comes in their stranglehold on information.

0:43.2

And if they don't have that anymore,

0:44.6

then they no longer are able to operate

0:46.8

with this monopoly that they've enjoyed

0:48.3

over the past few decades.

0:49.8

This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Jan Jaquelik.

0:53.5

Amber AP, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders.

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