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Posted on 02/07/2015 5:45:20 PM PST by upchuck
Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson says the government is growing increasingly savvy at evading reporters through the use of social media and other avenues to push “their propaganda and spin.”
Speaking at a Hillsdale College conference on American journalism, the Emmy Award-winning journalist and Daily Signal senior independent contributor called out the press for going soft in pursuit of the truth.
Attkisson said that “unless something pretty drastic happens, it stands to continue and get worse no matter who is president next.”
The author of “Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama’s Washington” said it’s not too late for journalists to turn the tide. After President Obama leaves office, Attkisson said, the press must decide if it will renew traditional coverage or continue to be complacent.
“Hopefully,” Attkisson said, “things will get better and we will look at this as a low point.”
In addition to her comments on government transparency, of which she recently testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attkisson said reporters today are failing “even to follow basic rules that journalism students know.”
At the same time, the White House has mastered ways to spin the press. Pointing to Obama’s recent YouTube interview with Internet celebrities, Attkisson argued this is just “one way they get around answering tough questions.”
Instead of acting transparently, Attkisson believes the White House continues spreading misinformation. She reports that groups like Media Matters for America broadcast “false information” and “operate directly for the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton.”
In other cases, the Obama administration stonewalls.
An investigative reporter with CBS News during the Benghazi terrorist attacks, Attkisson said the White House has shirked responsibility for “the biggest story, the biggest scandal, the biggest cover up.”
As a result of the administration slowdown, “the public has gotten numb” to the controversy and “doesn’t see the stark contrast” between the government’s initial claims and facts uncovered in government documents.
Attkisson says her congressional sources don’t think even they will get answers from the White House. “There’s really nothing we can do,” they tell her, explaining, “if the executive branch just says no, then at some point that’s just what you get.”
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This is no small feat. Russia dominated half the globe by perfecting these methods.
it stands to continue and get worse no matter who is president next.”
Only for those stupid enough to buy it.
Why does Attkisson have such a hard time acknowledging that it is not the Obama administration that has mastered propaganda and spin but the MSM.
I’m wondering how long they let this brave woman live.
Right. The Obama regime is rude and clumsy. The propaganda and spin is all from the MSM.
“Attkisson said that “unless something pretty drastic happens, it stands to continue and get worse no matter who is president next.””
Only if a Democrat is elected.
They will still go after a Republican.
Half the people in Venezuela, starving and looking at empty store shelves still believe the propaganda!
Sharyl dahling, don't you worry. Once an evil, filthy rich, right-wing racist Republican gets back in the WH, the press will return to the stark raving mad, Sam Donaldson-shouting questions asking, 1930s cameras with the big-ass flash bulbs flashing, fedora-wearing with the card PRESS on the side, OBJECTIVE AND IN THE INTEREST OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE media again.
She appears to rightly call it a team effort.
Sharyl is awesome! Taking on this tyrant takes a lot of guts. When all the dust has settled we should name a journalism school after her.
Stay safe Sharyl, we got your back.
America’s problem IS an illiterate electorate. Proof is this POS being elected twice.
Start by eliminating the DOEs, EPA, IRS. Then we can talk.
Oh how about restoring the 17th amendment too? Otherwise the senate is redundant.
Per Ms attkisson:
“...After President Obama leaves office,Attkisson said,the press must decide if it will renew traditional coverage or continue to be complacent. ...”
Ms. Attkisson,
Why wait till 0 is out of office?
Why not expose 0’s misdeeds/treason NOW?????!!!!????
Yes, it's the Media that has mastered propaganda. Obama is just a product of the media.
I don't want to criticize Attkisson too much, but she should know better.
only for the 47 percenters
The media has a long history of manipulation of the masses and it is intentional.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3255207/posts
Actually, Sharyl just can’t seem to get it. She thinks
the problem can go away when the Obamastration goes away.
Not so. The media will latch on to the next left wing
flavor of the month because they want to believe that
socialistic crap. Media dweebs are not victims, they are
co-conspirators.
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