Posted on 02/15/2018 5:04:09 AM PST by AndyJackson
In a Tedx Talk at the University of Nevada a couple of weeks ago, investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson revealed the origins of the "fake news" narrative that was aggressively pushed by the liberal media and Democrat politicians during the 2016 election, and how it was later flipped by President Donald Trump.
Attkisson pointed out that "fake news" in the form of tabloid journalism and false media narratives has always been around under different names.
But she noticed in 2016, there seemed to be a concerted effort by the MSM to focus America's attention on the idea of "fake news" in conservative media. That looked like a propaganda effort to Attkisson, so she did a little digging and traced the new spin to a little non-profit called "First Draft," which, she said, "appears to be the very first to use 'fake news' in its modern context."
"On September 13, 2016, First Draft announced a partnership to tackle malicious hoaxes and fake news reports," Attkisson explained. "The goal was supposedly to separate wheat from chaff, to prevent unproven conspiracy talk from figuring prominently in internet searches. To relegate today's version of the alien baby stories to a special internet oblivion."
he noted that a month later, then-President Obama chimed in.
"He insisted in a speech that he too thought somebody needed to step in and curate information of this wild, wild West media environment," she said, pointing out that "nobody in the public had been clamoring for any such thing."
Yet suddenly the subject of fake news was dominating headlines all over America as if the media had "received its marching orders," she recounted. "Fake news, they said, was an imminent threat to American democracy."
Attkisson, who has studied the manipulative moneyed interests behind media industry, said, "few themes arise in our environment organically." She noted that she always found it helpful to "follow the money."
"What if the whole fake news campaign was an effort on somebody's part to keep us from seeing or believing certain websites and stories by controversializing them or labeling them as fake news?" Attkisson posited.
Digging deeper, she discovered that Google was one of the big donors behind First Draft's "fake news" messaging. Google's parent company, she pointed out, is owned by Eric Schmidt, who happened to be a huge Hillary Clinton supporter.
Schmidt "offered himself up as a campaign adviser and became a top multi-million donor to it. His company funded First Draft at the start of the election cycle," Attkisson said. "Not surprisingly, Hillary was soon to jump aboard the anti-fake news train and her surrogate David Brock of Media Matters privately told donors that he was the one who told Facebook to join the effort."
Attkisson declared that "the whole thing smacked of the roll-out of a propaganda campaign," she said. Attkisson added, "But something happened that nobody expected. The anti-fake news campaign backfired. Each time advocates cried fake news, Donald Trump called them 'fake news' until he'd co-opted the term so completely that even those who [were] originally promoting it started running from it -- including the Washington Post," which she noted later backed away from using the term.
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Eric Schmidt ping.
Whatever else you want to say about the “fake news” narrative, Mr. Trump did a masterful job of “boomeranging” it back on the democrats and other assorted leftists.
And that, ladies and gemtleman, is how it's done! Leftists always accuse others of which the perpetrate, so just throw it back in their faces! The truth eventually wins!
I tried reading this article twice. It makes no sense to me...
I hope she’s trying to say that the left and the DNC, and Clinton purposely pushed Fake News at every opportunity. When she says it back fired, I’m not sure what she means. It back fired because Trump made it back fire and called them out, but they continued and continue to this day.
Every single thing coming out of Schiff’s mouth is fake, also Schumer. So, this whole strategy continues.
Eric Schmidt=fake news is what she is saying.
It would have been the death knell of independent internet information sources, probably even FreeRepublic.com.
Thank you, the Donald.
Google bigwig Eric Schmidt shocks with surprise resignation amid reports his personal life is being eyed
My take on Sharyl’s research is that leftists were trying to get a message out that conservative news sites were untrustworthy, dealing in “fake news.” Therefore, rely on the old lamestream media only (CNN, PMSNBC, NY Slimes, etc.) instead of these upstart, conservative sites (Breitbart, Daily Caller, etc.) which are peddling fake stories. That way, only propaganda from accepted leftist sites would be believed.
Despite a lot of money and lot of effort by the leftists, it didn’t work.
Ok, now that makes sense. Yes, and in the end, it backfired, because the liberals were actually sending out Fake News reports, maybe if not intentionally, they did it because they were partisan and incompetent.
THANK YOU FOR CLEARING THAT UP FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
That was clear enough. The way it is written could be confusing because of quoting Sharyl who was quoting others. But you are right.
The media engaged in Alinsky projection.
The Waco National Guard fax was fake news of the highest order.
The 2000 popular vote was “won” by Al Gore (at 0.51%) because of an election eve publication of Bush’s decades old DWI arrest.
The media did not even address the fraud until after several days of online criticism.
The media was even slower to admit the fraud in the “signed and inscribed” high school yearbook last year.
The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
Were conned by both sides
AND he beats them over the head with it every chance he gets!...................
What Sheryl is pointing out here is that Eric Schmidt was a key figure in trying to bring about the “Ministry of Truth” state of affairs that the deep-state wanted.
1. When the media tries to shape or censor facts and opinions rather than report them.
2. When so many in the media are reporting the same stories, promulgating the same narratives, relying on the same sources -- even using the same phrases. How many times have we heard on the Rush Limbaugh show tapes of news readers using the same phrases?
Interestingly Q broadcast a retweet of Eric Snowden today. In it Eric Snowden writes:
No reason why official government whistleblower or watchdog organizations don't adopt Tor services to help report wrongdoing and corruption - just like SecureDrop, which journalist use already
Q suggesting they (Main Stream Media) get their marching orders or narrative by SecureDrop every 4am
Textbook example for libtards to study: the politicized climate change narrative. Obviously there is big money and hidden motives involved.
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