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Award Winning Journalist says the Left Started “Fake News” as “Propaganda Campaign”
Constitution.com ^ | December 16, 2016 | Tim Brown

Posted on 12/17/2016 5:17:19 AM PST by KC_Lion

Award winning journalist Sharyl Attkisson has come out and said that the recent brouhaha over “fake news” is nothing more than a “propaganda campaign” in order to censor free speech and freedom of the press by the Obama administration and the likes of Hillary Clinton.

Appearing on Wednesday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” Attkisson said, “Before about September 13, if you searched the news you won’t find many or any mentions of fake news. But as soon as there was, in my view, a propaganda campaign to put this on the plate of the American public, the news media and politicians including President Obama went hog wild with the term and it started making headlines every day.”

“It wasn’t a new invention,” she added.

SHARYL ATTKISSON: "FAKE NEWS" IS A PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN STARTED BY THE LEFT

(Excerpt) Read more at constitution.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; fakenews; mainstreammedia; sharylattkisson
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Here is the Second Youtube Link in the Story "Astroturf and manipulation of media messages | Sharyl Attkisson | TEDxUniversityofNevada

I watch Sharyl's show religiously, it is so good!

You will learn so much.

Hope Freepers share this with everyone.

1 posted on 12/17/2016 5:17:20 AM PST by KC_Lion
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To: upchuck
Ping to Sharyl's list Upchuck! :D

Some great links and speeches here.

2 posted on 12/17/2016 5:18:15 AM PST by KC_Lion ("I'm a believer that you don't need a title, and you don't need an office to make a difference"~S.P.)
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To: KC_Lion

I believe that I caught on the news this morning that CBS has now “proven” that Vladimir Putin was personally behind the Russian hacking of the US election.

They just “say stuff”.


3 posted on 12/17/2016 5:18:52 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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To: KC_Lion

Fake news has been with us since Satan tempted Eve.


4 posted on 12/17/2016 5:19:07 AM PST by Raycpa
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You mean the same CBS who ran Sharyl out for not towing the party line on Benghazi?

That she dared to question authority and the party narrative?

That sounds about right, yes.

5 posted on 12/17/2016 5:24:23 AM PST by KC_Lion ("I'm a believer that you don't need a title, and you don't need an office to make a difference"~S.P.)
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6 posted on 12/17/2016 5:24:46 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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If the terminology dates from 9/13/16, it stands to reason it may be a meme that was selected for a PR campaign to counter the impact of images of a stiff yet wobbly HRC tumbling into her van after the 9/11 ceremony.


7 posted on 12/17/2016 5:25:07 AM PST by aposiopetic
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8 posted on 12/17/2016 5:25:42 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: KC_Lion

This is from August:

“Democrats Planting Radical Fake Conservative News Sites”

http://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2016/08/30/democrats-planting-radical-fake-conservative-news-sites-n2211522

There were several articles about fake news sites long before the election. Most of the fake news was done by democrats.


9 posted on 12/17/2016 5:28:42 AM PST by boycott (S)
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To: ClearCase_guy

One of the Alinsky rules - ,say it enough times and the dummies start to believe it” (I altered it a little)...: >)


10 posted on 12/17/2016 5:47:57 AM PST by jsanders2001
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Just wait..its going to get a lot worse. No way these people will let anything bring them down they will create, fake, lie and worse maintain their power.


11 posted on 12/17/2016 5:49:38 AM PST by Archon of the East
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To: KC_Lion

Talk about a great Trump press secretary, Sharyl would be fantastic!


12 posted on 12/17/2016 5:50:51 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: KC_Lion

Blast e-mails and or faxes go out from the DNC or their surrogates to the MSM every day. Believe it. (1984)


13 posted on 12/17/2016 6:01:46 AM PST by Don Corleone (Oil the gun, eat the cannolis, take it to the mattress.)
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14 posted on 12/17/2016 6:05:13 AM PST by Geronimo ( To trump is to outrank or defeat someone or something...)
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To: Raycpa

...Fake news has been with us since Satan tempted Eve...

That’s when Bill met Hillary and they became today’s Bonnie and Clyde.


15 posted on 12/17/2016 6:08:13 AM PST by Sasparilla (I 'm Not Tired Of Winning)
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The liberal degenerates are very afraid of what is happening. They are going after independent news sites because they counter the liberal propaganda in the mainstream media. They see it as a serious threat to their quest for power. Liberals are fascist scum.
16 posted on 12/17/2016 6:10:52 AM PST by peeps36 (Obama = the skidmark on America's underwear.)
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To: KC_Lion

Yet FAKE NEWS meme is being used to destroy the Leftists pr lies about “Russian Hacking” etc.


17 posted on 12/17/2016 6:18:39 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Trump discriminates against non-successful people.)
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To: KC_Lion

The Ministry of Propaganda does not want any competition.

They believe they should be the only source of information.

The Fake news they produce should be the only Fake news.


18 posted on 12/17/2016 6:32:16 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents)
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To: Geronimo

Dude, really?

I WAS having breakfast!

Now I’m sNOT!


19 posted on 12/17/2016 6:35:31 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Propaganda is necessarily a two-sided coin.
On one side is the propaganda.
The other side of the coin is censorship.


20 posted on 12/17/2016 6:38:09 AM PST by Montaignes Cat
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