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Sharyl Attkisson: 'The Media Waits for the Administration to Dictate the Agenda and Coverage'
Breitbart TV ^
| 5 Oct 2014
Posted on 10/06/2014 9:36:43 AM PDT by george76
Sunday on the Fox News Channel's "MediaBuzz," Sharyl Attkisson blasted the mainstream media for being President Barack Obama's lap dogs.
While discussing the media's lack of coverage of the growing threat of ISIS, Attkisson said, "Here's my cynical viewpoint. It would have been on the front page had the administration wanted it to be on the front page," and "The media waits for the administration to dictate the agenda and coverage."
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria
KEYWORDS: attkisson; enemedia; lapdogs; media; mediabias; msm; msn; newspapers; obamascandals; oldmedia; pravdapress; sharylattkisson
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posted on
10/06/2014 9:36:43 AM PDT
by
george76
To: george76
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posted on
10/06/2014 9:38:29 AM PDT
by
Dr. Ursus
To: george76
Nothing new here, Ivan Pavlov figured this out back in 1897.
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posted on
10/06/2014 9:42:01 AM PDT
by
areukiddingme1
(areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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posted on
10/06/2014 10:15:53 AM PDT
by
tomkat
(oy vey ^10)
To: george76
The MSM has been at the DNC’s beck and call for 40 years.
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posted on
10/06/2014 10:25:49 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: tomkat
Spot on. See my tag line.
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posted on
10/06/2014 11:54:37 AM PDT
by
Reo
(the 4th Estate is a 5th Column)
To: BenLurkin
C-SPAN3 had a program on last night (originally aired in July) about President Harding's love letters to his mistress (recently made public). It was mentioned that before going into politics, Harding was a journalist.
One person mentioned that journalism has been called "the second-oldest profession."
Another person filled in the rest of the saying: "but it lacks the high ethical standards of the first."
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