Sharyl Attkisson: Media Distorting Facts to Serve World Elites at Levels Never Seen Before

Breitbart ^ | 17 Jun 2016 | Dan Riehl

[Resettozero]

Sharyl Attkisson talked to Matt Boyle Friday about current events and an extremely disturbing trend. Elites have become adept at controlling media narratives, going so far as to ostracize reporters who “veer” from a particular narrative: “It’s certainly happening here in the United States,” said Attkisson.

Asked if American media appear to be aggressively pushing a particular narrative, specifically gun control in light of the recent terrorism in Orlando, Attkisson said:

I think they’ve been pushing narratives a lot for the last couple of years in a way I haven’t seen five years ago … ten years ago, for sure. It’s almost like someone’s given a license at the top. It used to be done kind of subtly, but now it’s sort of encouraged. It’s almost as if everybody’s on the same page now. I think it’s inappropriate. I think that different views should be represented. It doesn’t have to be 50-50 every time that every story has to be given equal time. But over time, different views should be heard, and we just don’t hear that anymore.

“I just got back from a conference in Russia, of all places, where global journalists gathered to talk about this as a trend globally, where government interests, corporate interests, special interests have learned how to use the news media,”Attkisson said, “how to use social media to control the narrative in ways, I think, more aggressively than has ever been done before.”

As for reporters:

When they veer from the narrative that’s trying to be established by whatever power that exists, they’re controversialized, they’re bullied, they’re driven out of the mainstream. It’s a global trend. Whoever is trying to control the narrative has figured this out. They’re applying similar techniques around the world, and it’s certainly happening here in the United States.

[ichabod1]

I think these levels have been seen in Russia and China before.

[BenLurkin]

Whoever is trying to control the narrative has figured this out.

Can we please figure out who that whoever is?

[SaveFerris]

Sharyl, this is the time before the Tribulation.

They all think they’re creating a NWO. What will come out of it will be unimaginable.

But it has been foretold in Scripture.

[soycd]

China and Russia are pikers compared to the EU and USA media that polishes the turds of islam and condemns those that fight for their country.

This crap will come to a violent end lest these pigs wise up.

[Resettozero]

Agree.

[BRL]

sheryl you should not have taken the red pill it really sucks

[Roger Kaputnik]

Agreed.

However, had she not been ostracized and forced out the of the “MSM” would she still be willing to speak so openly and honestly?

It’s just a question, not criticism.

[Harpotoo]

Well when we alone have $20T in debt what else can they do? Time is not on their side!

[Resettozero]

However, had she not been ostracized and forced out the of the “MSM” would she still be willing to speak so openly and honestly?

I think the chicken came first.

[Nifster]

Just another reason that the mom,including Faux News, are so anti Trump. To combat this we need to vote early and often to shut them up

[ichabod1]

I just mean the outright propaganda spewing from these major organs has reached levels not seen since the old days of the Soviet Union. The price of chocolate has fallen upwards.

[familyop]

The piece above the thread is propaganda, too. Let's identify those "elites." There are the global corporate sponsors and the subscribers (many in government organizations and NGOs). Here's a look at many of the subscribers: those with the money and time to use their influence.

OpenSecrets.org
American Fedn of St/Cnty/Munic Employees [State/County/Municipal Employees]
[Total Contributions:] $94,708,977
[To Dems & liberals:] $93,739,954
[To Repubs & Conservs:] $671,755
[Pct to Dems & liberals:] 99%
[Pct to Repubs & Conservs:] 1%

Leviathan (Uncle Sam employs more people than you think)
National Review ^ | 02/03/2011 | Iain Murray
"...nearly 40 million Americans employed in some way by government."

...and pensioners from the same.

America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution
http://spectator.org/articles/39326/americas-ruling-class-and-perils-revolution

The Fragmenting of the New Class Elites, or, Downward Mobility
http://volokh.com/2011/10/31/the-fragmenting-of-the-new-class-elites-or-downward-mobility/

Environmentalism and the Leisure Class
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2835601/posts

The New Upper Class and the Real Reason We Dislike Them
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2843575/posts

Are you a member of the political class?
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/08/are_you_a_member_of_the_politi.html

Downton’s Class System — and Ours: We have a ruling class that despises the free market and does...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3024119/posts

[Envisioning]

Welcome to the party!

[Jenny217]

They’ve been outed. Things will get really nasty going forward. Things were going along so well as long as they could go unnoticed but now the peons are awake and fighting back.

[Lexington Green]

The media is corrupt. And it shows...

[Chgogal]

Obama, the Clintons, Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, McConnell, Pelosie, Reid and MSM have transformed this country into a Banana Republic.

[cradle of freedom]

Chinese and Russian propaganda were crude but western propaganda is slick and they have learned to use entertainment value to draw people in. You can see stereotypes in many of the shows whether comedy, drama, talk shows. It creates deep impressions in people’s minds of what is considered acceptable by society and what isn’t. Of course conservatism is never considered acceptable.

[familyop]

"Can we please figure out who that whoever is?"

Yes, in comment #13.

Example from the latest wave of propaganda: Venezuelan public school teachers calling others "socialist." Some are getting paid while staying in their better home accommodations for weeks while avoiding the now squalid schools that some of their students continue to attend.

Conditions in the U.S.A. are going more in that direction every year. NIMBYs and their regulators have outlawed many productive activities in most locales through state and local governments (owner-building, fees, regulations against private property rights, property tax rackets, zoning against small manufacturing starts, etc.).

Approved, licensed robber-socialists (including those in government-approved and connected services) have been subduing the kind of economy that could have supported them prevented the impending defaults. They are so reprobate, that they are spending their big money and time to mandate social pathologies against the better judgement of those being dumped from the collapsing private sector and forced into welfare and homelessness.

[familyop]

Have a look at the following and especially the first comment below the posted article excerpt.

Spain's public debt surpasses 100% in 20-year high
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3440481/posts

The uglier debt-to-GDP percentage for the U.S.A. is mostly ignored here, because many subscribers here are part of the socialist machine against new, small production starts. Technically inclined people are so un-stylish and scary, you know. They continue to be able to repair vehicles, to study, to build, to grow food, but they have no useful skills according to employers in useless businesses (junk food stores, federally funded state and local troublemaking offices, drugged-up trucking companies, tourist traps, etc.). Technically inclined people tend to cause lower "property values," according to the "elites."

There are no property values. Real estate is down for the count for decades, and good riddance.